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The Good, Bad and Ugly Immune System
Speaker
Professor Carl Ware
Coordinator
Jerry Kent
Centuries of studying the immune system reveal its paradoxical roles-guardian of survival, destroyer of healthy tissues or bystander to cancer. Advances in immunology have led to effective new therapies for infectious, autoimmune, and malignant diseases. This lecture will describe common themes linking inflammation, cancer and infection. Discoveries about pathways that control the life and death of immune cells show how manipulating these signals can change immune responses. These key scientific findings can turn into real-world therapies, offering hope for patients facing conditions where the immune system acts both as hero and villain.
Speaker Bio
Presenter: Carl Ware is professor emeritus of the laboratory of molecular immunology at Sanford Burnham Prebys Institute and served as the director of the Infectious and inflammatory Disease Center and as an adjunct professor in the molecular biology section at UC San Diego. He has made discoveries that resulted in patents and the development of new drugs. He earned his PhD at UC Irvine.
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