2022 Goidl Lecturer: Dr. Rafi Ahmed
The GOIDL talk at UMSOM is an endowed lecture (named after Prof. Edmond Goidl) presented annually by a renowned contemporary Immunologist, selected by departmental faculty. This year’s speaker was Dr. Rafi Ahmed from Emory University. Here are some of our […]
Congratulations Dr. Kenny !!
Congratulations to Kenny – our first MD/PhD student as he gets the first of his two “Dr.s”. Covid Rules Apply. So we get to go to Fed Hill Park for a socially distant celebration. At this point, this is the […]
The Ken Rosenberg Defense !!
Kenneth Rosenberg defended his thesis (virtually) via Zoom on the 19th of August ! CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Rosenberg !!! . He now goes off to do some clinical clerkships – to get his 2nd Dr. (the MD part). The Life of […]
Congratulations Courtney – Review in Press !!!
Courtney Matson’s review article titled “Manipulating the TCR signaling network for cellular immunotherapy: Challenges & opportunities” is now in press in Molecular Immunology. Aaaay !! Congrats Courtney !!
The Virtual World : for Micro & Immuno students
Ever since the implementation of social distancing in responce to Covid19 (that started March 9th), the closing of all in-person seminars/lectures (March 23) and finally the shutdown of non-essential research … the Microbiology & Immunology program as a whole (in […]
New Publication in TI
Our collaboration with Zvi Grossman on a theoretical model for flushing out latently infected T cells in HIV patients is accepted to Trends in Immunology. Congrats to Zvi & all the authors ! ‘Rinse-and-Replace’: Boosting T-Cell Turnover to reduce HIV-1 […]
Aaay Courtney ! Very SPARKy !!
Courtney is the winner for the Departmental SPARK awards for Feb 2020 !
The John Migration
Dr. John Reiser Ph.D (Molecular Medicine) … leaves us for his new life as a Scientist at Fate Therapeutics in San Diego, CA. John is interested in Tumor Immunotherapy and got himself great options – with postdoc offers from the […]
UMD Advanced Immunology Course
The graduate program’s Advanced Immunology course begins this week. The course is directed by Martin Flajnik and he invites a stellar cast of friends to guest lecture in the series. This year’s faculty include Polly Matzinger, Paul Love, Avinash Bhandoola, […]
Farewell to Rachel @ Blue Agave !
Rachel Bour left the lab to start her Ph.D thesis at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville – on tissue engineering. Rachel was the first summer intern to join our lab back in 2014 and then came back during her break […]