MED SCI 717 / Vaccines and Vaccine Immunology

3 unit(s)

Vaccines and vaccine immunology have become an important sub-discipline of modern biomedical practice and research. It becomes increasingly important to both prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, cancer, autoimmune diseases and allergic diseases. This course is designed to provide graduate students with the basic concepts of current human vaccination programs, methods used to develop various forms of new vaccines, and vaccine immunology.