World-renowned immunologists arrive to launch immunology center
Lynn Hedrick, Klaus Ley were recruited from the prestigious LaJolla Institute
“Together we have an opportunity to truly create a university like no other. You all came here — I think, I hope and I believe — because you saw that same thing. What you saw was not just a university, but potential. Credible potential," said Augusta University President Brooks A. Keel, PhD.
Without CARMN, a long, noncoding RNA, the 30-foot-long GI tract doesn’t contract as it should.
The first in-human study of a new immunotherapy that blocks a natural enzyme that tumors commandeer for their protection was well tolerated by children with relapsed brain tumors and enabled many to have unexpected months of a more normal life, researchers say.
The new IMMCG focuses on better understanding the immune system’s seemingly diametric roles in enabling good health and in contributing to major killers.
