Vaccine Biology

Catalog description

This course will discuss vaccines from their historical development to the most novel and recent strategies to create new vaccines or improve the ones currently existing. We will focus on vaccine antigens, immunological responses for successful vaccination, novel adjuvants, immunopotentiation approaches, and new vaccines. Specific topics will include methods to link innate and adaptive responses, virulence factors and their role in immunity, strategies used by pathogens to escape the host response, and new delivery systems and biotechnology approaches for the development of vaccines.