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Siyuan Ding’s Quest for Immunogenicity and Protective Efficacy of Rotavirus-ETEC Dual Vaccines
Dr. Ding's work seeks to develop a combined vaccine for rotavirus and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), the leading viral and bacterial agents of diarrhea in infants.
Claire Otero’s Path to Congenital Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Efficacy
Dr. Otero's work aims to overcome one of the key challenges in creating an effective vaccine for cytomegalovirus (CMV) by blocking this important immune evasion mechanism through vaccination to improve Fc-mediated immunity.
Michelson Prizes Recipients Celebrated at 2023 Keystone Symposia
This prestigious event was held during the Keystone Symposia meeting on B Cell Biology in the Context of Infectious Diseases, Autoimmunity, and B Cell Cancers in June 2023.
Michelson Prizes ePanel: Advancing Human Immunology and Vaccine Innovation
This Keystone Symposia ePanel event features the recipients of the 2022 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, an international prize that supports early-career researchers who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research.
Dr. Noam Auslander's AI Development for Cancer Research
Dr. Auslander is developing machine learning methods to understand the genetic and infectious factors that drive cancer evolution, identifying patterns that can improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Brittany Hartwell’s Quest to Improve Intranasal Vaccines and Transmucosal Uptake
Dr. Brittany Hartwell hopes to enhance mucosal immunity and combat epidemics such as HIV and COVID-19 by improving mucosal uptake.
Dr. Jenna Guthmiller’s Universal Influenza Vaccine Research
Dr. Guthmiller’s successful grant proposal involves mapping the preexisting human B cell repertoire within the lymph nodes of the upper and lower respiratory tract that bind and respond to next-generation influenza vaccines.
Romain Guyon Explores Single-Dose Rabies Vaccines
Guyon's work has the potential to improve immunization rates against rabies and reduce the logistical and cost burdens associated with multiple vaccine doses.
Apply to the Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants
The 2023 Michelson Prizes application process will open April 3rd for researchers under 35 years old who are working on human immunology and vaccine development, with an aim to tackle roadblocks in human vaccine development and expand our understanding of key immune processes.
Dr. Rong Ma Views Personalized Cancer Research & Rock Climbing as Puzzles She Needs to Solve
Dr. Rong Ma’s research provides a pathway for using the mechanical forces involved in the human immune system to identify and predict immune responses.
2021 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Award Ceremony
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project (formerly the Human Vaccines Project) celebrate the winners of the 2021 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project award for their innovative vaccine and immunology research.
Dr. Camila Consiglio Explores Differences in Human Immune Responses Between the Sexes to Develop More Targeted Vaccines
Dr. Camila Consiglio, Karolinska Institutet, offers a novel approach to understanding differences in human immune responses between sexes by studying a unique cohort of people: individuals undergoing sex-re-assignment therapy.
Dr. Nicholas Wu Takes on Lifelong Quest to Understand How the Immune System Responds to the Flu
Dr. Nicholas Wu’s research (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has the potential to shift the paradigm of antibody discovery and characterization. Dr. Wu attempts to interpret the complexity of the human antibody repertoire, by establishing a sequence-based approach for epitope prediction.
2020 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants Award Ceremony
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and Human Immunome Project hosted a special 2-hour ceremony with 2020 Michelson Prizes Winners, Dr. Danika Hill (Monash University) and Dr. Michael Birnbaum (MIT).
Dr. Michael Birnbaum, 2020 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Birnbaum, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, received the 2020 Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research for “Repertoire-Scale Determination of T Cell Recognition and Cross-Reactivity to HIV via pMHC Lentiviral Display.”
Dr. Danika Hill, 2020 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Danika Hill, Research Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, received the Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research 2020 for: “Exploiting T Follicular Helper Cells as an Innovative Tool to Discover Targets for Long-Lived Humoral Immunity.”
Dr. Avinash Das Sahu, 2019 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Avinash Das Sahu, Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, describes his research project titled “Identification of cancer drugs that boost immunotherapy response.”
Dr. Murad Mamedov, 2019 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Murad Mamedov, Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, describes his research project titled “Mapping γδ T Cell Receptor Ligands.”
Dr. Kamal Mandal, 2019 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Kamal Mandal, University of California, San Francisco, describes his research project titled “‘Structural surfaceomics: an approach to identify cancer-specific cell surface protein conformations for immunotherapeutic targeting.”
Dr. Ansuman Satpathy, 2018 Michelson Prizes Human Immunome Project Recipient
Dr. Ansuman Satpathy, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, was awarded a 2018 Michelson Prize for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research for his work focused on combining disciplines of genomics and human immunology.
