Thao Vu and Huong Nguyen have become educational and research leaders, driven by their passion for teaching, mentorship, and scientific discovery.
Scientists have utilised AI to predict T cell receptors, advancing personalised medicine, and boosting immunotherapy and vaccine development.
Common steroid treatments for the autoimmune disease lupus can cause as many problems as they solve, but researchers are close to finding a viable alternative.
The groundbreaking identification of a specific T-cell receptor in healthy people without lupus has the potential to treat not only that disease, but approximately 100 autoimmune diseases known to have a similar pathology.
Can genetically-modified cell therapies correct the immune system’s mistaken attack of healthy cells and tissues?
German doctors have reported success in treating patients with severe lupus, using cell treatments like those used for some forms of blood cancer.
Professor Jamie Rossjohn is internationally recognised for using structural biology to investigate how T cells can respond to viral infections or cause autoimmunity. Now, he's been named a fellow of the oldest science academy in the world.
About 10% of women stop having periods and reach the end of their fertile years much earlier than expected.
For only the second time in 60 years, a drug has been approved for the treatment of lupus, a debilitating form of rheumatic disease.
It’s been described as feeling like your brain is on fire, and can be characterised by delusions and hallucinations. But those with autoimmune encephalitis aren’t crazy, they’re ill.
There are no approved treatments or cures, and more research is urgently needed for the debilitating illness.
Vaccination may one day allow coeliac disease sufferers to have their cake and eat it, too – but many questions remain unanswered.
An immunology mystery surrounding the cellular basis for our biological uniqueness has been solved – with groundbreaking implications for treating autoimmune diseases.
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