Dr. Judy Lieberman is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and holds an endowed chair in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Caroline Junqueira is an Investigator at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. Both researchers are interested in cytotoxic T lymphocytes — key cells in the immune defense against viral infection and cancer.
Read their recent Nature Immunology paper showing that activated γδ T cells suppress Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage infection by direct killing and phagocytosis here.
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