Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions suitable for treating inflammatory disorders such as allergy, asthma, artherosclerosis, autoimmune disease, infection, injury, meningitis, psoriasis, and transplant rejection. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions comprising human S100A8 and/or S100A9 for reducing inflammation.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions suitable for treating inflammatory disorders such as allergy, asthma, artherosclerosis, autoimmune disease, infection, injury, meningitis, psoriasis, and transplant rejection. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions comprising human S100A8 and/or S100A9 for reducing inflammation.

Abstract: This invention provides a novel gene therapy approach to specifically eliminate keratinocytes, or other cells, expressing early HPV (e.g. HPV 16) genes and which is minimally toxic to HPV-negative cells. In a preferred embodiment this method involves transfecting a mammalian cell with a nucleic acid construct encoding an HPV specific promoter that is induced by an HPV protein where the promoter is operably linked to a nucleic acid comprising a cytotoxic gene such that the cell, when infected with a human papilloma virus induces expression of the cytotoxic gene thereby resulting in the death of said mammalian cell.