4 search results for “host defence” in the Staff website
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Saloni Saxenas.saxena@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274950
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Patrick van Hagep.van.hage@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274950
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Annemarie Meijera.h.meijer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274927
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Turning the tables on tuberculosis: boosting our own immune forces
Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how boosting the body’s own defenses might outsmart this deadly pathogen. Her work reveals two key proteins that help immune cells destroy the bacteria.