Busse Lecture
All-Division Colloquium

Manipulating the Immune System for Therapeutic Benefit

• James R. Baker, Jr., MD, of the University of Michigan
• Director of the Michigan Nanotechology Institute for Medicine and the Biological Sciences (MNIMBS)
• Director of the Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center
• Ruth Dow Doan Professor of Biologic Nanotechnology
• Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School and Department of Biomedical Engineering

Presenting: Manipulating the Immune System for Therapeutic Benefit

Vaccines manipulate the immune system to provide protection against infectious diseases. However, most vaccines only provide antibodies and often leave significant proportions of the population unprotected. In addition, manipulating the immune system with vaccines to treat autoimmune or allergic disease would be an important goal. This lecture will describe new approaches to adjuvant development to help manipulate the immune system to prevent and treat disease. Altering specific immune responses and providing broader immune protection towards many infections is a goal that could be achievable with new adjuvant development.

Hosted by Professor Seungpyo Hong

To obtain the Webex link for this seminar, contact Debra King at Debra.King@wisc.edu.