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Ep.143: “Rethinking T Cell Exhaustion” Featuring Dr. John Wherry

Dr. John Wherry is the Director of the Institute for Immunology and Immune Health at the University of Pennsylvania. He discusses how T cell exhaustion develops during chronic infections and…

Ep. 142: “Decoding Cellular Crosstalk” Featuring Dr. Merav Cohen

Dr. Merav Cohen is a Principal Investigator at Tel Aviv University. She discusses how her lab uses single-cell technologies to decode communication between immune cells and their surrounding tissues. She…

Ep. 141: “Unlocking T Cell Immunity” Featuring Dr. Roger Geiger

Dr. Roger Geiger is a Group Leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland, and leads a research group at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany.…

Ep. 140: “T Cells Under Pressure” Featuring Dr. Martin Prlic

Dr. Martin Prlic is a Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He discusses the challenges of studying human immunology and how his lab…

Ep. 139: “Advances in Myeloid Cell Immunology” Featuring Dr. Miriam Merad

Dr. Miriam Merad is Director of the Precision Immunology Institute and a Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She discusses how myeloid progenitors and macrophages shape…

Ep. 138: “Reprogramming Autoimmunity” Featuring Dr. Pere Santamaria

Dr. Pere Santamaria is a Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary and Group Leader at the Barcelona Institute. He discusses how his lab studies…

Ep. 137: “The Immunology of mRNA Vaccines” Featuring Dr. Brian Brown

Dr. Brian Brown is a Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He discusses how his lab develops innovative technologies to study the immune system and advance…

Ep. 136: “The Immunology of Obesity” Featuring Dr. Andrew Hogan

Dr. Andrew Hogan is a Professor and Principal Investigator of the Obesity Immunology Research Group at Maynooth University. He discusses how obesity drives chronic inflammation and immune dysfunction, increasing the…

Ep. 135: “Olfactory Receptors Beyond the Nose” Featuring Dr. Marco Orecchioni

Dr. Marco Orecchioni is an Assistant Professor at Augusta University. He discusses how olfactory receptors — best known for detecting smells — also function in innate immune cells such as…

Ep. 134: “Outsmarting Tuberculosis” Featuring Dr. Shabaana Khader

Dr. Shabaana Khader is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Chicago. She discusses how the immune system responds to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, why tuberculosis…

Ep. 133: “From Microbes to Immune Responses” Featuring Dr. Samuel Nobs

Dr. Samuel Nobs is an Assistant Professor and Group Leader ar the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Switzerland. He discusses how microbes in the lungs and gut may shape…

Ep. 132: “Tumor-Infiltrating B Cells” Featuring Dr. Tullia Bruno

Dr. Tullia Bruno is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She discusses how B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures shape anti-tumor immunity within solid tumors, challenging the traditional…

Ep. 131: “Lymphocyte Development” Featuring Dr. Alfred Singer

Dr. Alfred Singer is a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research. He discusses his pioneering work on thymus development and T cell differentiation, including how…

IMMUNOLOGY2026™: On the Ground

In April 2026, we attended IMMUNOLOGY2026™, the annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, in Boston. We chat with delegates about their research and impressions of the meeting. They…

Ep. 129: Live from IMMUNOLOGY2026^TM: Emerging Immunotherapies for Solid Tumors

This special episode was recorded in front of a live audience at IMMUNOLOGY2026

IMMUNOLOGY2026™: Day 5

In April 2026, we attended IMMUNOLOGY2026™, the annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in Boston, and recorded daily episodes discussing highlights of the previous 24 hours. Here is…

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