The latest news from the Immunology Center of Georgia

The IMMCG Newsroom is your hub for the latest news, stories, and media coverage from the Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG), part of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Here you’ll find recent Jagwire articles, public‑facing newsletters, and an “In the News” section highlighting external media coverage featuring our scientists and trainees, along with videos from our YouTube channel. Check back often to stay up to date on the people, discoveries, and events shaping IMMCG.

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Augusta University sets donor record, raises $629K on giving day

Augusta University sets donor record, raises $629K on giving day
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Hedrick named to boards of immunology conference, Georgia Research Alliance 

Hedrick named to boards of immunology conference, Georgia Research Alliance 
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In Photos: IMMCG hosts world-renowned immunologist at inaugural lectureship

In Photos: IMMCG hosts world-renowned immunologist at inaugural lectureship

 

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Expanse Supercomputer Used for Breakthrough Immunotherapy Study

March 27, 2025UC San Diego Today

Agroundbreaking discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, offering new opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology recently used the Expanse supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), which is a pillar of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS) at UC San Diego, to better understand how cancer tumors react when the immune system is used to combat them.

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Augusta University researcher receives grant to study link between cancer, cardiovascular disease

Feb. 24, 2025, 3:54 a.m. ETThe Augusta Chronicle

A researcher at Augusta University’s Immunology Center of Georgia has been awarded the center’s first American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. The grant provides Sabrina Robichaud, PhD, with resources that will support her innovative research into the link between cancer and cardiovascular disease, an area of growing interest as scientists explore the immune system’s role in both conditions. Augusta University is no stranger to AHA research grants, leading the state with $49.8 million in funding across more than 300 awards. IMMCG, established in 2022 as part of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, joins other top research centers like the Georgia Cancer Center and the Vascular Biology Center, which has a noteworthy history of AHA-supported research.

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Augusta University | Healthcare Workforce: A Prescription for the Future

February 1, 2025GeorgiaTrend

A native of the Augusta region, Russell Keen, president of Augusta University (AU), soldered copper pipes in an old dental lab at AU during summer breaks as he worked his way through Georgia Southern College (now Georgia Southern University) as a young man. In 2024, he presided over the opening of AU-Medical College of Georgia’s Savannah campus, a collaboration with Georgia Southern. With the expansion, the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), the state’s only public medical school, increased enrollment from 264 students to 304 and moved into the top five in the nation for medical schools by class size. That’s an amazing journey for a guy who was a first-generation college student. But Keen takes the greatest pride in the achievements of the faculty, staff and students of AU.

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AU immunologist earns NIH grant to study chronic inflammatory diseases

January 19, 2025Augusta Good News

A prestigious pilot grant from the National Institutes of Health will help an Augusta University researcher uncover the role of the lymphatic system in chronic inflammatory diseases. Rafael Czepielewski, PhD, assistant professor at the Immunology Center of Georgia, has received the MIST Scholar Award in Mucosal Immunology from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of NIH. This one-year, $125,000 grant will fund his innovative research on the interplay between the immune system and lymphatic vasculature in chronic conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease.

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The HPV breakdown: Why you should ‘Gard’ your health

Posted: Jan 2, 2025 / 12:21 PM ESTNews Channel 6 |WJBF

Each year, 13 million Americans, including teenagers, become infected with Human Papillomavirus (HPV). While there are over 200 types of HPV, a majority of which show no symptoms, there are at least a dozen types that can lead to cancer. In fact, HPV causes 36,000 cases of cancer in both men and women in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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CD73 and PD-1 gatekeep self-reactive CD4+ T cell expansion

December 4, 2024ACIR

T cell tolerance to self antigens is essential for the prevention of autoreactivity, and negative selection in the thymus is partially responsible for this process. However, at least one-third of CD4+ T cells reactive to a self antigen escape clonal selection. These cells do not expand well after vaccination, suggesting other tolerance mechanisms are at play. In a recent Nature Immunology publication, Nettersheim, Brunel, Sinkovits, et al. explored what mechanisms are responsible for this limited response to self, even upon vaccination.

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