April
3,
2020
This event has been canceled.
As part of a larger proactive UW–Madison campus plan to minimize person-to-person spread of COVID-19 in our community, we are suspending large events until April 10. See more information about campus operations.
James R. Baker, Jr., MD
Director of the Michigan Nanotechology
Institute for Medicine and the Biological Sciences; 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.
All-division colloquium.
Hosted by Seungpyo Hong
