Recruiting expertise to expand knowledge and treatment of tuberculosis
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Successfully recruited a new faculty member, Dr. Richard Robinson, to join the MCW Department of Microbiology and the MCW Center for Infectious Disease Research and launched new research aimed at improving understanding and producing new knowledge around the development of proactive innate immune responses to TB
Discovered a gene, IL12RB1, that must be expressed by immune cells to contain TB infection and that human immune cells express the gene in 13 proteins. Previously the scientific community had believed only one protein was made from this gene
Advanced understanding of how the human immune system controls infectious disease and identified a novel human leukocyte protein as a potential vaccine target
Established new collaborations within and outside of MCW to broaden research base
Disseminated new knowledge, publishing three primary articles related to immune control of tuberculosis
Leveraged supported research to obtain an NIH grant and two private grants to continue advancing investigations
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