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Assistant Professor of Immunobiology @YaleIBIO @YaleCII @YaleMed @Yale. Hanna H. Gray Fellow of the @HHMINEWS. Husband/Dad. Scientist.
May 24, 2023 6 tweets 6 min read
Our latest paper describing #universal #CoV vaccine that can protect against #MERSCoV and #SARSCoV is now out⁩ in #preprint@YaleMed⁩ ⁦

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“Vaccine-mediated protection against merbecovirus and sarbecovirus challenge in mice” biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We were interested in developing vaccination strategies against highly pathogenic human #coronaviruses with epidemic potential. Our previous studies, and those of others, defined the #RBD as a major target of neutralizing antibodies.