Priority Research Area Infections
Host Determinants in Lung Infections
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Key Projects
Vaccines:
- Molecular basis of sex-dependency in vaccine efficacy
B cells
- Elucidate the sex-specific role of B cells in TB
- B cell development in the bone-marrow during chronic infection
Myeloid cells
- Sex-specific regulation and function of monocytes and macrophages in TB
- Sex-specific regulation of immunoproteasome function in lung infection (Meiners/Schneider)
Coinfection
- Viral triggers of TB disease: Impact of influenza or MCMV on TB disease and Mtb-specific immunity