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Toward a World Without AIDS: Developing a Vaccine Against HIV

WHEN:
Jan 31, 2019 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
WHERE:
Duane Smith Auditorium
1300 Diamond Drive, Los Alamos
SPEAKER:
Bette Korber, Los Alamos Laboratory Fellow
CONTACT:
David Moore
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TYPE:
Lecture
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Event Description

Our immune system precisely targets and eliminates pathogens when we get an infection, and our immune cells have a remarkable capacity to “remember” such an encounter, acquiring protection that can last a lifetime.

Vaccines work by tapping into this immunological memory. But what happens when the immune response faces a highly variable pathogen, such as HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), which evolves so rapidly that virtually every infection is different?

Join Bette Korber, R&D Magazine’s 2018 Scientist of the Year, as she discusses viruses and vaccines, and her work on innovative HIV vaccine designs that trigger an immune response that can “remember” and recognize a virus that is constantly changing.