The 2018 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Foundation Faculty Development awardees

• Published in: Journal of allergy and clinical immunology Vol. 142; no. 1; pp. 67 - 70
• Main Author: Ballas, Zuhair K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Allergies; Allergy/immunology; Antigens; Asthma; Awards & honors; Children & youth; Disease; Food allergies; Immunology; Immunotherapy; Inflammatory diseases; Investigations; Medical screening; Pathogenesis; T cell receptors; United States > US; California; Allergy/immunology

Within the broad category of T-cell dysfunction, T-cell exhaustion is a form of T-cell immunometabolic dysfunction.4 It is characterized by poor effector function in the context of persistent antigen and is well studied in patients with cancer and chronic viral infection.5 Dr Henrickson hypothesizes...