Tue Nov 3 · 6:30pm
Lectures on Tap — Why Is Tuberculosis So Hard to Vaccinate Against?
Bryan Bryson, a biomedical scientist who studies how the immune system recognizes and controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis, uses TB, one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, as a case study in why some vaccines work and others fail. He covers how scientists choose vaccine targets, the tradeoffs they weigh and the twists that derail promising ideas, with stories from his own lab.