Vaccine Development

Scientists Provide New Details About Long-Term Immune Memory

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 11th, 2001

New discoveries about how individuals acquire long-term immunity against diseases are proving essential for the development of new vaccines for complex and persistent diseases such as HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis.

Rafi Ahmed, PhD, director of the Emory University Vaccine Center and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, discussed the links between mechanisms of long-term memory and vaccines in a lecture at the Experimental Biology 2001 Meeting on April 3, 2001. Ahmed was one of three immunologists selected to deliver the American Association of Immunologists Distinguished Lecture at this year's meeting.

In the past, scientists used a...

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