Research Area
A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research (link is external)
Boris Striepen of Penn Vet organized the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, bringing together researchers and clinicians from around the world to discuss the problems and progress around the parasite and…
Regulating the regulators of the immune system (link is external)
Research led by Penn Vet scientists reveals a new layer of complexity with which the immune system finds a balance between controlling pathogens and protecting healthy tissue.
With a protein ‘delivery,’ parasite can suppress its host’s immune response (link is external)
Toxoplasma gondii is best known as the parasite that may lurk in a cat’s litter box. Nearly a third of the world’s population is believed to live with a chronic…