Latest Discoveries
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology Rachel McLoughlin was amongst a group of researchers to discover How the Bacterium Staphylococcus Aureus that plays a vital role in spread of MRSA Colonises the Human Nose
Dr David Finlay of TBSI: Cellular Metabolism Arms T cells to Battle Viruses and Tumours
Self-Eating Cells May Hold key to New Inflammatory Therapies
Read more here.. (link to online Article in The Journal of Immunology)
Lydia Lynch: Immune Cells Could Protect Against Obesity
(Immunity Article) (Irish Times) (Communications, TCD) (Harvard Gazette )
New Ways Viruses Affect Human Immune Response Discovered
Read more on this.. Read Irish Times article..
Scientists Solve Structure of Important Protein in Energy Storage of Cells
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News & Events
Kingston Mills, Public Lecture 27th February 2013: Vaccines – not just for infection How we can target the immune system to control cancer, Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases
Vaccines that prevent life-treating infectious diseases caused by bacteria and viruses have been the most successful medical interventions for enhancing human health. The concept of using a vaccine to mobilize the immune system to prevent infection with microbes is now being translated to the enhancement of immune responses to eliminate the tumour cells that cause cancer or to clear the amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Conversely vaccines that promote immune regulation and thereby turn off damaging immune responses are being developed for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. (TCD, UCD and RCSI Launch Biomedical Engineering Collaboration to Accelerate Innovative Health Care Technologies)
“This is an important step towards the integration of different disciplines that increasingly share common goals,”
20th December 2012
