Creating Memory: Vaccines & Immunity

We talk with Dr. Christopher Hunter, Professor and Director of the Institute for Infectious & Zoonotic Diseases in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, who studies the initiation of immunity by parasites and mRNA vaccines to inform new vaccine development.

We talk with Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Director of Enterics, Diagnotics, Genomics & Epidemiology at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, WA, who leads efforts to understand mechanisms of action to develop new and better vaccines for rotavirus, cholera, typhoid and shigella.

We talk with Dr. Rosemary Aogo, a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Health, MD, who uses mathematical and computational modeling of experimental, clinical and cohort data to inform next generation flavivirus vaccines and therapeutics.

We talk with Dr. Chris Risley, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, who studies the regulation of local B cell responses in airway tissues and its role in protective immunity.

We talk with Dr. Mark Painter, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, PA, who studies the role of T cells following respiratory virus infection or vaccination as well as in immune memory, cancer, aging and autoimmunity.