Colloqui della Classe di Scienze - Anno Accademico 2020/2021Mercoledì 17 febbraio 2021ore 15:00Alberto Mantovani
(Humanitas University, Milano )
terrà un seminario dal titolo
“INNATE IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION: FROM CANCER TO COVID-19”
abstract:
The immune system is an extremely complex orchestra. The immune system and the central nervous system are the two most complex set of cells, connections and mediators in our body. Alterations of immunity and inflammation represent a metanarrative of modern medicine, spanning from infectious diseases to cardiovascular pathology to cancer.
Inflammatory cells and mediators are a key component of the tumor microenvironment. A change in paradigm and dissection of accelerators and brakes of immunity have spearheaded the birth of cancer immunotherapy. COVID-19 has highlighted how little we know of immunity to microbial challenges. As for cancer, a better understanding of the interaction of immunity with SARS-CoV-2 is likely to pave the way to new diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
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