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The research team s grant will allow them to investigate memory T cells in animal models, but the research could have implications for humans too.
News By Michelle Vassilev Mar 8, 2021 12:15 AM
A team of researchers received a $1 million grant late last month to study how memory cells recall past events when responding to attacks on the immune system and injuries on the skin.
The project’s lead researchers said the team is looking into how memory T cells can memorize certain events, like an attack from a virus, and recall that memory once those events appear a second time. Rong Li, the chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the lead researcher on the project, said the team hopes to learn the molecular process these memory cells use to recall past events and to eventually mimic this process in treatments like cancer therapies and inflammation care.