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Junior Faculty Spotlight: Manish Sharma
July 01, 2022Manish Sharma, PhD, joined the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in 2021. Over the past year, Sharma’s research on the HIV-1 virus focused on cell entry sites, as well…
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Improving Influenza Vaccines
July 01, 2022Influenza leads to 290,000 - 600,000 deaths each year globally (WHO). In the United States since the 2010-2011 season, there have been an average of 36,000 deaths and 430,000 hospitalizations each year (CDC). As such, describing the burden of influenza disease in children and…
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Improving care for adolescents living with HIV
July 01, 2022According to the CDC, half of all new STIs in the United States occur in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) between ages 15-24. AYAs living with HIV are at a higher risk of additional STIs. Despite nation-wide recommendations for people…
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CCIV Grand Rounds - Dr. Donna Farber
July 01, 2022Donna Farber, PhD, from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, visited Emory in April for CCIV’s Pediatric Grand Rounds. Her talk, “Tissue-mediated development of adaptive immunity in humans,” occurred on April 20th, 2022. The event was…
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2021 CCIV Symposium Recap
December 02, 2021As in 2020, our symposium this year was virtual. While we missed the in-person interactions, the event was a great success. The virtual symposium drew over 130 registrants, 93 attendees, 2 keynote speakers, and 5 internal speakers. Thank you to all who participated in this…
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Research News: COVID-19 & MIS-C
December 01, 2021In the past year and a half, CCIV led the nation in SARS-CoV-2 research throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A key component of that has been research on Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). MIS-C often results in PICU admission, with…
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PROFILE: COVID-19 Vaccine Research Team
December 01, 2021Over the last year, the Emory Children’s Center — Vaccine Research Clinic (ECC-VRC), which includes the Emory Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit (VTEU), led by Dr. Evan Anderson, played a critical role in the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trials.…
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Children’s and Emory studies show evidence of COVID-19 and MIS-C biomarkers
October 11, 2021Two inflammatory biomarkers, secretory phospholipase 2 and plasma osteopontin, were observed in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 and multi-system inflammatory condition in children (MIS-C)