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& BLOCK 1 & Background Research (Where the dream starts)

In recent years, multiple ways of immunotherapy arise which leads to brand-new hope for patients with cancers and arouse our great interest to make further research. However, based on the clinical results of those like CAR-T, side effects happen with its unsteady curative effect. Improvement is needed and we are willing to take over this challenge.

Besides, this year unexpected scandals happened in Jilin-based Changsheng Biotechnology which has been ordered by the Chinese government to cease production of its fake rabies vaccine. It brings about great influence among society and gives rise to attention and debates of vaccine production. We are fully surprised by this scandal and reflect a lot. This issue about vaccine also plays a role in leading us to determine what we what to do to make a better world.

After plenty of research and design, we set up our project based on one specific system – Type III secretion system (T3SS) and developed our goal of design it as an antigen delivering agent for immunotherapy, which is promising in individualized treatment. Our primary thought is rough and is necessary to fill up the blank, therefore research from both professional and social field are required.

& BLOCK 2 & Interviews for Promotion (a Q&A journey, pursuing for being better)

*** expert in bacteria immunity – Problems solving in bacterial immunity***

Though we could construct the major part of our project through self-searching on the internet and literature reading, there are some questions and negligible aspects when it comes to practical application and it is of great benefit if we could get advice from professional consultant. Therefore, we invited Professor Du Xin to assist us in aspect of bacterial immunity and possibility of bringing our project into practical medicine.


We concluded the conversation into several tips we got as inspiration and project promotion: