Walking the line: how the immune system balances tissue repair with pathogen defense

21 May 2021

Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

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Abstract

The immune system is faced by a fundamental challenge: it must balance the competing need to detect and clear pathogens, with the equally important requirement to minimize damage to bystander host cells. First, I will summarize several of our published results demonstrating mechanisms that regulate this tradeoff based on the type of infection. I will then discuss how our past work motivates us to reimagine a central paradigm of immunology — immune privilege.

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