Emma Houlder
emmahoulder.bsky.social
Emma Houlder
@emmahoulder.bsky.social
Researcher at LUMC.
Immunology, schistosomiasis, vaccines.
Thanks of course to all my co-authors (Uganda, Netherlands and UK) and funders!!!!!!!
July 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Thanks to co-authors Lucas Ferreira da Silva, Angela van Diepen, Murilo Sena Amaral, R. Alan Wilson, Cornelis Hokke, Meta Roestenberg & Wilfried Bakker, and to the wider #WORMVACS group.
June 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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We also built an open, searchable database with all results:
🧪 wormvaccines.nl
The idea is to keep it updated with new studies and make the field easier to navigate for anyone working on schisto vaccines.
Pre-clinical S.mansoni vaccine dashboard
wormvaccines.nl
June 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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To address that, we pulled out common parameters that influence outcomes and proposed recommendations for future pre-clinical study design.
June 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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One major issue: huge variation in vaccine formulation and study design.
Different adjuvants, challenge doses, timing, and endpoints make it hard to compare studies—or know whether a low result is due to the antigen or the setup.
June 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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A few candidates—like Smp-80 and Cathepsin B—stood out, with >90% protection in some studies.
But the median efficacy across all candidates was around 35%.
June 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
December 20, 2024 at 10:40 AM