• Question: Are you preparing anything against immune system diseases?

    Asked by Maria Altarriba to Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Noel, Steph on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Carmen Denman answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Hi Maria,

      No, I personally I not preparing things to protect from autoimmune diseases, if that is what you mean by your question. I study bacteria that can cause infection and design vaccines to protect from infection. I’m not studying autoimmune disease (when are immune systems themselves get sick and attack itself) that is an entirely different field! A very interesting one though.
      Cheers!
      Carmen

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      Noel Carter answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      No this is not a field of work I am involved in. We use immunosuppressants in transplants to stop the immune system of the person who gets the donated organ from seeing the organ as “non-self/foreign” and rejecting/destroying it

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