ADDovenom: Novel Snakebite Therapy Platform of Unparalleled Efficacy, Safety and Affordabillity

About ADDovenom

Snakebites can be life-threatening when venom toxins are injected and enter the bloodstream. In areas where immediate access to specialised medical care is limited, bites by venomous snakes cause many thousands of deaths each year.

The EU-funded ADDovenom Project will use an innovative platform enabling generation of new snakebite treatment, based on a new disruptive protein-based nanoscaffold called ADDomer© – a megadalton- sized, thermostable synthetic virus-like particle with 60 high-affinity binding sites to neutralise and eliminate venom toxins from the bloodstream.

ADDovenom combines pioneering proteomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics focusing on snake toxins provoking the most challenging syndromes like haemorrhage and paralysis. The aim is to develop first-in-class neutralising superbinders for snakebite therapy of unprecedented efficacy against the most prevalent Sub-Saharan snakes.

ADDomer©: Synthetic multiepitope display scaffold for next generation vaccines.

Research

The project comprises several technological challenges (rational design of new antigens as consensus toxins/epitope strings, design of an ADDobody library) and high-risk
research (in vitro selection of new binders from a novel protein scaffold).

Mass spectrometry
and
bioinformatics
to analyse venoms

Liège -LSTM

In vitro evolution
and
characterization of
ADDobody binders

UoB - Liège - AMU

Examination of neutralizing ability of selected ADDobodies
and gigabodies

LSTM

Scalable bioprocess
for
gigabody production
bullets

UoB - Liège

Latest News

ADDovenom Spring Meeting 2023

ADDovenom researchers took part in their annual virtual spring meeting on 20 April 2023.  The project team meet every six months (either in person or virtually) to share updates on

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Experts

ADDovenom synergistically combines unique expertise across a range of techniques and scientific disciplines, towards the objective to develop easy to produce, first-in-class neutralizing superbinders for snakebite therapy.