There are 4000 known M.tb antigens, current strategies exploring potential epitopes to target use IFN-Y ELISA to determine cellular responses to people infected (versus uninfected) to see if they elicit a good response to M.tb antigens...
October 2019
IDA Highlight: Possible barriers and opportunities for HIV cure
Thumbi N’dungu from African Health Research Institute (AHRI) was one of the faculty members, who presented on “Possible barriers and opportunities for HIV cure in patients who initiate treatment during acute HIV infection.” His presentation...
IDA Highlight: Not all levels of malaria exposure induce the same anti-malarial immunity
We highlight Dr Yaw Bediako’s (faculty) presentation on “Performing immunological studies in human cohorts - Systems approaches to studying immunity to malaria”.
IDA Highlight: Immune responses to TB vaccines
Dr Elisa Nemes from SATVI presented on the current status of TB vaccinology, where she primarily focused immunological aspects of tested vaccine strategies. Immunoprofiling of TB-vaccine induced immunity, still primarily focuses on...
IDA Highlight: CD4 T cells in HIV infection
CD4 T cells are well known as the main target for HIV infection, however, their T cell antiviral activity during His infection is not as well known. This year the IDA invited Dr Zaza Ndhlovu from the African Health Research Initiative, to be one of the faculty members of the HIV themed session, where he presented...
Career Advice from IDA faculty that were once previous IDA Scholars
The 9th IDA Symposium began with a "Science and Career Advice" session presented by speakers who were once IDA as a student or Post-Doc, and are now faculty members. Highlights of their talks were: Yaw Bediako (YB): "Be active in your science career
Lipid profiles key step to preventing breast cancer metastasis through epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Early detection of breast cancer offers curable options, however, once metastasized the cancer cannot be cured. With higher rates of breast cancer correlated with western diet consumption...
The Vaccinology course, if you are in the vaccine-world, you shouldn´t miss it!
Since 2008 the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France has facilitated the Vaccinology Course, a course that covers all aspects of vaccines and vaccination, and allows participants from all over the world to attend lectures by immunologist who conduct cutting-edge research.
Investigating the immunological composition of the Kidney
Researchers recently published an article in Science (Stewart et al.,) describing the immune composition of anatomical structures of the kidney, and how they differ between early life (fetus) and adulthood. Stewart et al., obtained kidney...
CD27 expression identifies Th17 cells with high stemness properties
Karmaus et al., showed that during chronic autoimmunity Th17 cells are heterogenous, where Th17 cells with enriched stemness properties are CD27+TCF1hi, while IFN-γ expressing Th17 cells with high metabolic activity are CD27-Tbethi.