The invention relates to combinations, compositions, methods and dosage regimes for use in medicine, optionally wherein the use may be the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or cancer, including inducing an improved immune response and improvement in the performance of therapeutic vaccines.

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of hepatitis B infection, including chronic hepatitis B (CHB).

Provided herein are engineered hepatitis B virus (HBV) molecular vaccine constructs. Vaccine constructs can also include ligand-inducible engineered gene switch systems for modulating expression of heterologous genes, such as a cytokines, in host cells.

A vaccine delivery method is presented that includes a composition including as one component a slurry matrix that is a liquid at room temperature and a gel at physiological pH, physiological salt concentrations and/or physiological temperatures and as a second component one or more antigens. Also included are methods of inducing an immune response in a subject and vaccinating a subject by administering such compositions.

The present invention is directed to improved methods of Enterovirus inactivation by formaldehyde in presence of tromethamine buffer resulting in maximum recovery of D-antigen. Subsequent adsorption of said sIPV on aluminium hydroxide provides significantly dose reduced sIPV compositions.

The present invention relates to the construction of, and immunization with viral vaccines. In particular, bivalent vaccines that are capable of providing simultaneous virus infection protection for two or more different viruses. Furthermore, the bivalent vaccines contemplated herein are contemplated as being effective in a neonatal mammal. One such bivalent viral vaccine comprises two antigenic epitopes against the dengue viruses and at least one antigenic epitope against hepatitis B virus. Immunization cross-reactivity may also provide infection protection against other viruses as well.

The present application relates to triterpene glycoside saponin-derived adjuvants, syntheses thereof, and intermediates thereto. The application also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the present invention and methods of using said compounds or compositions in the treatment of and immunization for infectious diseases.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for the stimulation of immune responses and for treating or preventing allergic disease and responses and inflammatory disease and responses. In particular, the present invention provides nanoemulsion compositions and methods of using the same for the induction of immune responses that prevent or treat allergic disease by reducing allergic response. Compositions and methods of the invention find use in, among other things, clinical (e.g. therapeutic and preventative medicine (e.g., vaccination)) and research applications.

The present invention belongs to the field of biopharmaceutics and in particular relates to a pharmaceutical composition. The pharmaceutical composition comprises a hepatitis B surface antigen, a hepatitis B core antigen, and an immunostimulatory composition, wherein the immunostimulatory composition comprises a saponin and a CpG oligodeoxynucleotide, or consists of an adjuvant comprising a saponin and a CpG oligodeoxynucleotide.

Therapeutic combinations of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines and an anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof are described. Methods of inducing an immune response against HBV or treating an HBV-induced disease, particularly in individuals having chronic HBV infection, using the disclosed therapeutic combinations are also described.