The Immunology and Infectious Disease Research Initiative will harness the depth and breadth of infectious disease and immunology research across Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to become the global leader in the study of infectious disease, vaccinology, and immunology.
The St. Geme Lab focuses on bacterial pathogenesis, with an emphasis on defining the molecular and cellular determinants of Haemophilus influenzae and Kingella kingae disease.
A group of prominent vaccine researchers, including The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute's chief scientific officer, Philip R. Johnson, MD, and the University of Pennsylvania's Stanley Plotkin, MD, recently called for a "human vaccines project" to accelerate the development of vaccines to prevent "major global killers such as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases."
