Tom Kepler, Rachel Fearns, and Joseph Mizgerd receive R61 grant
Tom Kepler and fellow Principal Investigators Rachel Fearns and Joseph Mizgerd received an R61 award from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The goals of this project are to study the immunoglobulin variable-region repertoire of lung-resident B cells, and to quantify the degree to which they provide information about the history of pulmonary infection and lung-resident commensal viruses, as well as about the likelihood of future pulmonary infection.