Understanding Vaccines and Immune Defense A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers

Understanding Vaccines and Immune Defense A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers

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Understanding Vaccines and Immune Defense

A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers

Nancy Liu-Sullivan

Medical / Preventive Medicine

Easy to follow and medical jargon-friendly, this encyclopedia is a go-to source on vaccines against infectious diseases and against certain cancers accompanied by a comprehensive summary of core foundational concepts that govern human immune defense systems.

Understanding Vaccines and Immune Defense: A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers guides readers through a brief history of how pandemics and epidemics have shaped the development of vaccines which, in turn, have been successful in keeping life-threatening causative agents at bay. Also discussed at length is cancer vaccines, preventive and therapeutic as well as general and personalized in forms and formats, that adds a powerful pillar to cancer immunotherapy. Another fascinating interplay between vaccines and cancer portrayed in this book is how certain anti-infectious disease vaccines can be (surprisingly) repurposed to reset patient immune system and be revved up against certain types of cancer.

Nancy Liu-Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, served as a senior research scientist specializing in cancer genomics and drug discovery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) before joining the biology faculty at the City University of New York (CUNY) College of Staten Island (CSI), USA. In parallel to teaching and running a research lab that focuses on meta analysis of how differential expression of critical genes shape prognostics and patient overall survival in glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), melanoma, and breast cancer, Dr. Liu-Sullivan has published extensively on cancer studies for professionals as well as general audience. Selective books and essays include Understanding Cancer Immunotherapy: A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers; Cancer's Sweet Tooth; Nobel with a Sugar Twist; CRISPR: From Nature to Bench and Bedside; and Cell Therapy Coming of Age. Dr. Nancy Liu-Sullivan also published a co-authored paper with Dr. James D. Watson and team Sweden on the characterization of a promising new breast cancer drug HAMLET in 2011.

Publication Date: 04 February 2027
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 9798216442974
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 224
Weight (oz): 16.0

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