Areas covered range from basic studies
into the biology of innate and adaptive
immunity (immune cell development and differentiation, immunogenomics, systems immunology, structural immunology, antigen presentation, immunometabolism, and mucosal immunology) to immune contributions to health and disease (
host defense, inflammation, cancer immunology, autoimmunity, allergy, transplantation, and immunodeficiency).
Platelet activating factor receptor and innate
immunity: uptake of Gram positive bacterial cell wall
into host cells and cell - specific pathophysiology.
More investment
into research is all the more important given that we are close to formidable breakthroughs in many areas of respiratory diseases, such as molecular bacteriology and virology, development of vaccines and antiviral agents, boosting
host defence and innate
immunity, molecular pathology and personalised care for lung cancer.