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ArticleNPJ vaccines2025

A highly stable lyophilized mRNA vaccine for Herpes Zoster provides potent cellular and humoral responses.

Raquel Munoz-Moreno, Viola Allaj, Eddie Gadee, Julie M Button, Fernando Diaz, Mohan S Maddur, Wei Chen, Cheng Hui Hu, Lyndsey Martinez, Andreas Giannakou and 9 more

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Article in NPJ vaccines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Research progress of mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases.European journal of medical research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Raquel Munoz-MorenoVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA. raquel.munoz@pfizer.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4521-0488
Viola AllajVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Eddie GadeeVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Julie M ButtonVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Fernando DiazVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Mohan S MaddurVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Wei ChenVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Cheng Hui HuVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Lyndsey MartinezVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Andreas GiannakouVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Adam Lee CampbellVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Yana MitevaVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Pengbo GuoVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Bridget HuangVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Shuai ShiVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Jason LotvinVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Kristin TompkinsVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Pirada Suphaphiphat AllenVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA.
Alicia SolórzanoVaccine Research and Development, Pfizer, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY, USA. alicia.solorzano@pfizer.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0072-3463

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpes zoster (HZ) is a painful vesicular rash that occurs upon varicella-zoster virus (VZV) reactivation in older adults and immunocompromised individuals. Although there is currently an approved vaccine for the prevention of shingles, its administration is commonly associated with high reactogenicity. This highlights the need to develop new vaccine alternatives with long lasting immunity and improved tolerability upon administration. In the present study, 10 different vaccine candidate designs using two different codon optimizations targeting the VZV glycoprotein E (gE) were generated. A subset of mRNA constructs were formulated into lipid nanoparticles and assessed for their ability to induce specific cellular and humoral immune responses following vaccination in mice. Notably, the selected mRNA vaccine candidates induced high levels of antibodies and robust CD4

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PMCPMC11909110

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