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Specialisations

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Foundations in Virology and Vaccinology Specialisation

Understand the fundamentals of vaccinology in the context of what vaccines are and how they protect us. This specialisation explains the fundamental principles of virology and assesses the different approaches to detecting and tracking viruses among different populations and treating viruses.

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Immunology: The Immune System and its Failures Specialisation

Enhance your knowledge in immunology. This specialisation provides an insight into the molecular and cellular components of the immune system and demonstrate how they interact to protect us from pathogens in health, as well as the consequences of their failure in disease.

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Courses

How vaccines work

Discover the immunological underpinnings of how vaccines induce protection.

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Types of vaccine

Explore the scientific understanding that went into vaccine development.

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What are viruses and how do we work with them?

Understand the basic nature of viruses and basic concepts of how they replicate.

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What do viruses do and how do we control them?

Understand how viruses interact with their hosts to infect, replicate, spread and cause disease.

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Innate immune system

Explore our innate immunity, which provides us our first, fast and inherited defence against infections.

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Adaptive immune system

Learn about the role of immune responses of the adaptive (acquired) immune system, which provides specialised immunity against pathogens.

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Autoimmunity, allergy, and transplants

Explore the mechanisms and immune responses involved in autoimmune diseases and in hyper-responsive phenomena.

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Immune system and infectious diseases

Understand the different types of pathogens, their confrontation with human immune system, and the dramatic consequences of their evasive strategies.

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Immune failures and cancer immunology

Examine the consequences of chronic inflammation on the immune system and immune system malfunctions in tumour development.

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