MIT Underwood-Prescott Professor, Darrell J. Irvine, PhD will present at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) end-of-the-semester seminar this Thursday, May 25th in Jones 143 at 8:30 am.
The title of Dr. Irvine's talk is, “Engineering vaccine immunity through control of timing and localization.”
Dr. Irvine is Professor, Departments of Biological Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research is focused on the application of engineering tools to problems in cellular immunology and the development of new materials for vaccine and drug delivery. Major efforts of the laboratory are directed toward vaccine development for HIV and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Irvine’s work has been recognized by numerous awards, including election as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, election as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and appointment as an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is the author of over 200 publications, reviews, and book chapters and an inventor on numerous patents.