T follicular helper (Tfh) CD4+ T cell, germinal center, and antibody response dysfunction in human recurrent tonsillitis

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Abstract

Overall Component COVID19 is a severe ongoing pandemic. Our understanding of the immune response to this disease is lacking, which impairs both the development of proper therapeutics and a vaccine. Vaccines are one of the most cost effective and extraordinarily successful medical interventions. Most of those vaccines depend on CD4 T+ cells and their help to B cells. We have developed multiple new techniques to study human CD4+ T cells over the past several years, which have have been implementing in our LJI CCHI. The supplement proposed here will facilitate rapid and vigorous pursuit of an understanding of the T cell responses to SARS-CoV2 in humans, which may help in the development of treatments and vaccines for COVID19.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10169568
Project number
3U19AI142742-02S1
Recipient
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY
Principal Investigator
Shane P Crotty
Activity code
U19
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$386,200
Award type
3
Project period
2020-05-26 → 2021-02-28