Prof. Shane Crotty
@profshanecrotty
Vaccines and immune system scientist. Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), a non-profit research institute @ljiresearch. PhD not MD.
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This study on response to Omicron after #SARSCoV2 vaccination provides some optimism re โoriginal antigenic sinโ biorxiv.org/content/10.110โฆ TLDR: although response to Omicron dominated by preexisting B-cells, antibodies from these cells better at 6 months than 1 month. ๐งต below.
As usual, Eric Topol beat us to tweeting about our paper. ๐
Everybody keeps talking about antibody-escaping variantsโฆ Nice work from Andrew Godking is showing how magnitude of T cell response against SARS-CoV2 structural proteins (M,NP and Spike) correlates with protection against COVID-19 more than Ab. Go T cells nature.com/articles/s4146โฆ
Two Nobel prizes for Barry Sharpless! Extraordinary! And well deserved. Congrats to our neighbors down the street Scripps Research !
Tweetorial on a very interesting paper. Crotty Lab journal club by Parham Rad
All thanks to UC San Diego UC San Diego Healthโ where you are lifted by a unmatched tradition of interdisciplinary research, great patient care programs, dynamic surrounding research institutes, beaches, palm trees ๐ด, fish tacos ๐ ๐ฎ and above all, the most amazing students and trainees