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Demystifying Medicine: Innate Immunity: Elie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) and the Immunity War / Reflections on SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Innate Immunity

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Air date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 4:00:00 PM
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Views: Total views: 734 (359 Live, 375 On-demand)
Category: Demystifying Medicine
Runtime: 01:49:23
Description: Demystifying Medicine

Luba Vikhanski is a science writer at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. She is the author of "Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine." Vikhanski will discuss how the findings of Metchnikoff, known as the father of natural immunity, sparked an "immunity war" in the mid-19th century.

Robert Gallo is the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor of Medicine and co-founder and director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. A winner of two Lasker awards, Gallo is recognized internationally for his co-discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS during his long tenure at the NIH.

For more information go to https://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov/
NLM Title: Demystifying medicine. Innate immunity : Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) and the immunity war / Luba Vihkanski. Reflections on SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and innate immunity / Robert Gallo.
Author: Vihkanski, Luba.
Gallo, Robert C.
Vihkanski, Luba.
Gallo, Robert C.
Publisher:
Abstract: (CIT): Demystifying Medicine Luba Vikhanski is a science writer at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. She is the author of "Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine." Vikhanski will discuss how the findings of Metchnikoff, known as the father of natural immunity, sparked an "immunity war" in the mid-19th century. Robert Gallo is the Homer and Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor of Medicine and co-founder and director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. A winner of two Lasker awards, Gallo is recognized internationally for his co-discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS during his long tenure at the NIH.
Subjects: COVID-19 Vaccines--immunology
COVID-19--immunology
Immunity, Innate
Pandemics.
Publication Types: Lecture
Webcast
 
NLM Classification: QW 541
NLM ID: 9918351572206676
CIT Live ID: 44347
Permanent link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44347

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