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Research Focus Areas

HOST DEFENSE & VACCINE DEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING COVID-19)

CANCER
IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOTHERAPY

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE & MICROGLIA BIOLOGY

AUTOIMMUNITY
AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

SYNTHETIC IMMUNOLOGY & NEW TECHNOLOGIES

2022 Fair

Please join us in congratulating the Immunology Fair oral and poster competition prize winners!

December 14, 2022

Oral Presentation:
First Place – Boyoung Shin (Rothenberg Lab Caltech)
Second Place – Emily Neubert (Tinoco Lab UCI)
Third Place – Adiza Abass (Heung Lab Cedars-Sinai)
Poster Presentation:
First Place – Shannon Geels (Marangoni Lab UCI)
Second Place – Zach Wagoner (Wagar Lab UCI)
Third Place – Jake Coast/Cristina Velasquez (Jameson Lab CSUSM)

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Phil Felgner named Fellow by National Academy of Inventors

December 12, 2022

Phil Felgner, Professor in Residence, Physiology and Biophysics, is being honored for a series of discoveries based on biophysics principles and the structure and hydrodynamic properties of bilayer membranes.

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Please join us in Congratulating Alex Moshensky!

September 1, 2022

Congratulations to Alex Moshensky (Marangoni lab) on being awarded a T32 training grant slot from the Skin Diseases Research Center.

Symposium on Inborn Errors of Immunity

August 29, 2022

Symposium on Inborn Errors of Immunity
Balboa Bay Resort, Newport Beach, California
October 28-29, 2022
Keynote speakers include:
Mark DAVIS (Stanford): New approaches to study immunity in humans
Luigi Notarangelo (NIH)- Multi-omics analysis of RAG deficiency immunopathology
Jean-Laurent Casanova: From inborn errors of immunity to common determinants of infectious diseases
Filmomeen Haerynck (Belgium)- A novel player in viral sensing by transcribing host-derived RIG-I ligands

Breakfast and lunch included, registration is:
Students $100
Post-doc $200
Faculty $250

Philip Felgner

Please join us in congratulating UCI Professor Philip Felgner who is a 2022 recipient of the prestigious Robert Koch Prize. This award is in recognition of Dr. Felgner’s groundbreaking research on the development of mRNA vaccines.

August 29, 2022

Please Congratulate Rachel Sousa on her National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

April 5, 2022

Rachel won a Graduate Research Fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation, a major nationwide academic achievement. Her proposal is entitled “The development of a spatiotemporal mathematical model of tumor-immune dynamics to investigate the mechanisms of tumor escape and control” and is one of only six project in Mathematical Biology funded this year in the US. Rachel […]

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