Agricultural Animal Health Program (AAHP)

Program in Immunology and Vaccine Development 

 

Program goals

Define mechanisms required for protective immunity to pathogens affecting livestock, horses, and people; define protective antigens and epitopes; develop new approaches to vaccine development

Program accomplishments

• Improved diagnosis and prevention of immune deficiencies in neonates
• Definition of protective immune responses in ruminants and horses
• Identification of vaccine antigens and epitopes in bacterial, protozoal, helminth, and viral pathogens
• Genomic and proteomic approaches to antigen discovery
• Development of novel adjuvants for enhanced priming of immune responses

Program support

1. National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
2. US Department of Agriculture-Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
3. The Wellcome Trust
4. Washington Vaccine Alliance-Life Sciences Discovery Fund
5. State of Washington Safe Food Initiative
6. US Department of Agriculture-Animal Diseases Research Unit
7. WSU Animal Health Research Center
8. Sanofi-Pasteur
   

 
Faculty

 

Thomas E. Besser Wendy C. Brown William C. Davis James R. Deringer Stephen A. Hines Douglas P. Jasmer Donald P. Knowles

Kevin K. Lahmers Paulraj K. Lawrence Terry F. McElwain Robert H. Mealey Susan M. Noh Junzo Norimine Guy H. Palmer Carlos E. Suarez

Publications

 

For more information on the Program in Immunology and Vaccine Development, contact:

Wendy C. Brown, PhD
Regents Professor
Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology and Paul G. Allen Center for Global Animal Health, Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-7040
phone: 509-335-6067
fax: 509-335-8529
email: wbrown@vetmed.wsu.edu