An Influenza Oracle: How Prior Vaccine Studies Can Predict Your Future Response

Featured Speaker: Tal Einav, Ph.D.

 While the annual influenza vaccine works well on the population as a whole, there is substantial variability in its effectiveness. Around 30 percent of individuals who receive the vaccine show little-to-no response and someone who responds poorly one year may respond very well the next year. This talk will describe how we can combine the wealth of influenza-vaccine studies from the past decades to predict each person’s future response and how we are leveraging these approaches to develop personalized vaccine recommendations that will maximally augment each person’s immunity. 

Presenter Biography

Tal Einav is a physicist by training but a computational immunologist in his daily life. He received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2012 and started his lab at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in 2023. His work centers on developing models to answer key biological questions that are hard-to-impossible to access experimentally.

Coordinator: Amnon Altman