10 search results for “immunity infection and tolerance” in the Staff website
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Bart RoepFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Johan de FijterFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Cornelis HokkeFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Frank BaasFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Cornelis van KootenFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Mark van BuchemFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Young, sleeping memory cells are crucial in fighting a reinfection
Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Oncode have created a tracking system that can reveal how often cells have divided. This allowed them to find a yet undiscovered population of immune cells: young memory cells that behave like stem cells.…
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Lioe-Fee de Geus-OeiFaculteit Geneeskunde
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize
Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…
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T-cells more important in the fight against the COVID-19 virus than initially thought
A COVID-19 vaccine that specifically instructs the immune system to produce T-cells rather than antibodies is shown to provide good protection in a mouse model, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) researchers report in Nature Communications. According to them, the alternative vaccine may offer a…