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Research Focus Areas
HOST DEFENSE & VACCINE DEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING COVID-19)
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CANCER
IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOTHERAPY
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE & MICROGLIA BIOLOGY
AUTOIMMUNITY
AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
SYNTHETIC IMMUNOLOGY & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
News
Seminars in Immunology
Hrishkesh Kulkarni, MD, MSCI, UCLA, will present a seminar on May 14th on “With Complements from the Lung: Lessons Learned from Studies in Lung Injury”
Congratulations to Tessa Chou in the Marsden lab!
Please join us in congratulating Tessa Chou in the Marsden Lab, who has been awarded a 3-year NIH Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) grant to support her graduate work studying HIV latency reversal agents. In other news, Tessa also recently received an ARCS (Advancing Science in America) Foundation Scholar Award, and was the […]
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ben Morehouse Recipient of the Michelson Medical Research Foundation Award to Rising Immunology Leaders
LOS ANGELES—Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) is proud to announce the eighth cohort of recipients of its 2026 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, naming five early-career scientists whose research is advancing the future of human immunology. The program is supporting its largest cohort to date, awarding five early-career scientists $150,000 each to accelerate innovative work […]
24th Annual Immunology Fair – November 19th and 20th, 2026
The 24th Annual UC Irvine Immunology Fair 2026 will be held on Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th. This year’s fair will feature three keynote speakers who are leaders in the field of immune tolerance: Fred Ramsdell, PhD Recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Founder and Scientific Advisor Sonoma Bio Daniel […]
Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Wagar who gave a talk at the Scandinavian Society for Immunology annual meeting at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
In October 2025, Lisa Wagar, PhD was invited to give a talk at the Scandinavian Society for Immunology annual meeting at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Wagar also gave a presentation at the student workshop. Congratulations Dr. Wagar!
