Monday 20 November 2017
19:00
Engineering immunity: from vaccines to cancer cures
with Yale University School of Medicine
The immune system is a life-saving defense against infections. But this protection is a double-edged sword: misdirected, it can trigger problems ranging from allergies to autoimmune disease. Now new breakthroughs allow us to trick the immune system into fighting cancer and degenerative illnesses – and perhaps find cures for diseases once thought incurable.
With an introduction from Yale Provost, Ben Polak, we will hear about this cutting edge of cancer research from two of Yale’s top scientists and professors at the Yale School of Medicine.
Prof. Medzhitov is Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and earned a B.S. at Tashkent State University before going on to pursue a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Moscow University in 1990. He performed his postdoctoral studies with the late Charles A. Janeway Jr. at Yale University School of Medicine.
Prof. Medzhitov is Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and earned a B.S. at Tashkent State University before going on to pursue a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Moscow University in 1990. He performed his postdoctoral studies with the late Charles A. Janeway Jr. at Yale University School of Medicine.
