Genes, networks and variations of the immune response
Nir Hacohen is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard/MGH and Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford and was trained in physics, mathematics and computer science from his undergraduate studies at Harvard University. He joined Harvard/MGH as an assistant professor in 2003 after leading his own lab as an independent Whitehead Fellow at the Whitehead Institute. His honors include the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Sandler Memorial first prize PhD thesis award, and a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship with David Baltimore.
Nir is a...
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Toward a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine
Presented by: Peter Palese, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of MedicineCategory: Wednesday Afternoon LecturesAired date: 04/30/2014 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Toward a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine
Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Because influenza viruses are constantly changing, it's difficult to develop effective vaccines against them. Two molecules on the surface of the virus control its infectivity: hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. Current influenza virus vaccines predominantly elicit a protective immune response to the immunodominant but variable head of the hemagglutinin. This approach is effective, especially when the vaccine strain closely matches the circulating virus. Another vaccine strategy involves redirecting the response to the more conserved stalk domain of the hemagglutinin and the immunosubdomin...
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Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee -February 2013
The VRBPAC will meet in open session to discuss and make recommendations on the selection of strains to be included in the influenza virus vaccine for the 2013-2014 influenza seasonAir date: 2/27/2013 8:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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