Seminar: Maternal immunization strategies to improve protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
In-Person in room 4.114
Dr. Kerry Empey
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
The overarching goal of Dr. Empey’s lab is to understand age-dependent differences in the host immune response to pulmonary infections in order to improve disease outcomes through development of targeted therapeutic approaches. The Empey laboratory uses several techniques to interrogate the host response to infection, including immunology, molecular biology, histology, virology, adoptive transfers, and microscopy. Methods of immune modulation and therapeutic strategies range from vaccination strategies to small molecules. For the past 10 years, the Empey lab has dedicated research efforts toward establishment and study of infant, adult, and aged mouse models of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection to mimic aspects of human disease, including the development of vaccine-enhanced disease (VED) associated with direct infant RSV immunization.