Emory Immunology

[mercaptovizadeh]

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I'm interested in immunology/infectious disease programs, and I've heard that Emory's is among the top for "translational immunology." Does this mean their research is more "treatment oriented" than more basic, theoretical research at other schools?

Emory is probably among the top twenty schools, but how does its immunology program compare to top schools? And how does the kind of research they do differ from the immunology research at say Yale (which had the famous Janeway), Harvard, JHU, or WashU?

Thanks.

 

[Fermata]

I'm interested in immunology/infectious disease programs, and I've heard that Emory's is among the top for "translational immunology." Does this mean their research is more "treatment oriented" than more basic, theoretical research at other schools?

Emory is probably among the top twenty schools, but how does its immunology program compare to top schools? And how does the kind of research they do differ from the immunology research at say Yale (which had the famous Janeway), Harvard, JHU, or WashU?

Thanks.

http://www.intransit.us/reviews/schools/emory.html

There is some mentioning here about Emory being strong for immuno.

 

[Fermata]

http://www.biomed.emory.edu/programs/program_imp.cfm

 

[AndyMD]

I'm very interested in Emory for this reason, as well, but I've only done the most superficial research into the resources that the school has. To address your first question tho, I would imagine that "translational immunology" is indeed more therapy-oriented. I know that they have their own Vaccine Research Center (which is really really hard to find at a medical school, as far as I can tell... I don't know of another at any of the schools to which I applied, but I didn't apply to many of the tip-top ones so it's possible that there is another one amongst those schools you mentioned in comparison...). Plus, Emory is literally across the street from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which is all about infectious diseases among other things. I've actually heard some negative things about the CDC (like they're rather competitive within their own walls (= unhelpful colleagues), and sometimes tend not to publish their findings in favor of keeping them within the institution) but I think collaborations do exist between scientists at both institutions. Furthermore, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center is also close by, and I was given the impression that Emory scientists are able to conduct studies there as well, which would be a huge boon to vaccine and therapy research.

In addition, their immunology department is ranked second in terms of extramural NIH grant dollars, acc. to the 2003 rankings. http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/award/rank/microbiology03.htm

I'm actually surprised Baylor beats them by so much considering all of the things they seem to have going on, but so it is, apparently.

 

[Mitro]

There's some pretty solid faculty out at Yerkes - Rafi Ahmed and John Altman come to mind among many others. Yerkes caught me as an amazing resource and is a huge selling point. Also, I'm pretty sure all the vaccine center people are all out there - so if you look at the vaccine center faculty page, I'd imagine you'd get a pretty good idea of what is going on in Emory's immunology program.

http://www.vaccines.emory.edu/index.shtml