Cellular Immunity Related News
Professor Jonathan Sprent Top Ranked NHMRC Research Fellow for 2010
10 Mar 2010
Last week, NHMRC announced awards for the highest ranked recipients of grants and fellowships for 2010. Garvan Immunologist Professor Jonathan Sprent received the Achievement Award as the Top Ranked NHMRC Research Fellow.
How ‘lipid rafts’ help us mount an immune response
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08 Feb 2010
Garvan immunologists have found that lipid rafts, hot spots of signalling activity in our cells, ramp up the sensitivity of certain immune cells, helping us mount an immune response
Major breakthrough in transplantation immunity
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06 Apr 2009
Garvan scientists have made a discovery that may one day remove the need for a lifetime of toxic immunosuppressive drugs after organ transplants. They have successfully tested a method, in experimental mice, of adjusting the immune system for just long enough to receive a tissue transplant and accept it as ‘self’.
Scripps cancer findings good news for Garvan immunologist
22 Oct 2008
While a member of the research faculty at California's Scripps Research Institute, Garvan's Professor Jonathan Sprent collaborated with Professor Charles Surh to develop a novel complex designed to rev up the immune system to fight cancer. Scripps researchers, including Surh, have now tested the complex in mice for cancer treatment and found it to be effective.
