News & Announcements

As 2023 draws to a close, I wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a fulfilling new year. Great things have been happening in IIB and I would like to take this opportunity to highlight some our major accomplishments for the year.

Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Harnois, who successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Evaluating Humoral Immune Responses Against HLA and Cytomegalovirus in Human Lung Transplantation".

On November 27th, Naren Mehta of Maria Ciofani's lab was awarded a highly prestigious F31 grant from the The National Institutes of Health, supporting 3 years of funding.

Europe Bailey Doan of the Tedder Lab successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Patterns of Autoantibody Expression in Multiple Sclerosis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Revealed Through the Development of an Autoantigen Discovery Technology".

Faculty member Stacy Horner will be one of three guests presenting at the 2023 Cell Press webinar, "RNA sensing in immunity".

Carissa Harvest working in the Miao lab described a new mouse model to study how granulomas, cellular fortresses built around foreign objects, kill pathogens.

PhD candidate Maurice Bukenya in Georgia Tomaras' Lab was recently named one of two non-clinical senators for The Graduate and Professional Student Government of Duke University (GPSG).

In service to the Durham community, a group from the Integrative Immunobiology department went to Whippoorwill Park Saturday morning.