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Kuan-Teh Jeang Memorial Lecture: The broad impact of innate immune receptors in viral infection, cancer and autoimmunity

Air date: Monday, June 3, 2024, 2:00:00 PM
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Description: Jenny Pan-Yun Ting is a Taiwanese-American immunologist and microbiologist at University of North Carolina. She is a highly cited researcher who studies the role of NLR genes in regulating inflammation and how nanoparticles and microparticles can be used as vaccine adjuvants. In memory of Kuan-Teh Jeang, the lecture will discuss the roles ofmultiple innate immune receptors in viral infection in mouse models and patients. Theseminar will also describe the unexpected intrinsic roles of these receptors in adaptive Tand B lymphocytes. The latter adects both cancer and autoimmunity, with implications forimmunotherapeutics.

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Author: Jenny Ting, PhD
Runtime: 1 hour