Immune System

UArizona Immunologist Dr. Deepta Bhattacharya weighs in on why kids are getting hit hard by respiratory viruses. Dr. Bhattacharya & experts around the globe share what scientists know about the resurgence of childhood respiratory viruses- and what they don't.

Dr. Mark Van Dyke discusses the post-pandemic importance of in-person meetings, collaboration, and discovery - especially in an innovation ecosystem like UArziona's where there are impactful innovations all around campus.

Hyeon Seung Lee is a senior at UArizona working in the Chang Lab. He and the lab are studying the underlying mechanisms of chronic sinusitis and its associated virus called rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold.

Acute stress makes immune cells migrate immediately to the bone marrow, which prepares the body for injury at the expense of increasing infectious disease susceptibility.

Hear from Meivan Yang, a UArizona Junior who is majoring in Bioinformatics and Biochemistry. She has worked in Dr. Goodrum’s lab since the Summer of 2021, where they study Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV).

New boosters that target Omicron may be our most important COVID vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020- with inoculations that are proven to be well matched to the season’s circulating strains providing hope into the winter season.

Kartik Dattani talks about his experience with the UArizona summer internship program through the dual degree program with Amrita University and his work with Dr. Jared Churko.

Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they've asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize an updated version of their COVID-19 vaccine — this one designed specifically to target the omicron subvariants that are dominant in the U.S.

The U.S. is one step closer to having new COVID-19 booster shots available as soon as this fall.

Dr. Felicia Goodrum, a professor in the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Immunobiology, has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the American Society for Microbiology’s Journal of Virology.