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Meet our team at booth#64 during the World Vaccine Congress Europe 2023 in Barcelona, Spain on October 17th - 19th 2023. Don't miss the opportunity to check our poster presentation on: An innovative cationic lipid library for efficient and tunable mRNA-LNPs.

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Poster : An innovative cationic lipid library for efficient and tunable mRNA-LNPs.

Abstract

Lipid nanoparticles (LNP) have demonstrated high efficiency delivering RNA therapeutics in vivo. However, the properties of such nanoparticles obtained with conventional ionizable lipids are often hard to modulate, and especially their biodistribution profile. Such ionizable lipid-based nanoparticles often predominantly end up targeting the liver. One of the current challenges in the field consists of adjusting the particle chemical composition to the targeted application.

Here, we have characterized a library of 10 innovative imidazolium-based cationic lipids as key component of cationic LNPs (cLNP). We disclose their chemical structures and demonstrate their efficacy generating LNPs through characterization of their hydrodynamic diameters, Zeta potentials and encapsulation efficiencies. The resulting particles display high transfection efficiencies and have little to no impact on cell viability in vitro, on HEK293 and CaCo-2 cell lines. In vivo, the biodistribution of the cLNP highly depends on the cationic lipid chemical structures, targeting mainly lungs and spleen. Among this library, we have identified one cationic lipid as a potent additive in Moderna‘s Spikevax formulation. We improve the transfection efficiency of this formulation by 20% in vitro in HEK293 and Caco-2 cell lines and modulate its biodistribution profile in vivo.

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