"Iowa Scientists Study Infection Response to Improve Vaccines"
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"Iowa Scientists Study Infection Response to
Improve Vaccines" Associated Press (www.ap.org)
(06/03/02)
University of Iowa
associate professor of microbiology John
Harty is researching T cells and their ability to multiply, fight infection, and
retain memory cells. Harty believes that increasing the amount of memory cells
in the body will increase the amount of time a vaccine is effective against
disease. Harty's study, which appears online in Nature Immunology, was funded by
grants from the National Institutes of Health and a fellowship from the Leukemia
and Lymphoma Society.
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