Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
The Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases focuses on the biological, immunological, epidemiological, and ecological aspects of disease and the vectors that transmit some of these infectious agents.
Affiliation: Harvard School of Public HealthWeb site: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Academics/iid/index.html
Recent articles about Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Working to snip malaria drug resistance (February 17, 2008)HSPH, Broad map malaria genetic diversity (Harvard University Gazette, December 10, 2006)
Researchers discover mechanism that regulates bone growth (Harvard University Gazettte, July 3, 2006)
Vitamin D critical to human TB response (Harvard University Gazette, March 9, 2006)
HSPH find AIDS drugs work well in Botswana (Harvard University Gazettte, November 17, 2005)
TB susceptibility gene identified (Harvard University Gazette, April 21, 2005)
Scorpion venom blocks bone loss (Harvard University Gazette, January 8, 2004)
Harvard researchers complete genomic sequence of deadly malaria parasite (School of Public Health, October 2, 2002)
Mouse model devised that develops asthma (Focus, January 25, 2002)
Technique enables quick accounting of gene function (Focus, December 14, 2001)
Shorter treatment as effective, less costly in preventing HIV in babies (Around the School, October 6, 2000)