ERC Advanced Grant · 2018
Trained immunity: improving the next generation of vaccines for the older generation
The host defense, especially the adaptive immunity, is defective in the elderly, with a dramatic drop for the efficacy of vaccination with old age. Interestingly however, the innate immunity of older individuals is relatively intact, and we recently described that epigenetic and functional reprogramming of innate immune cells by certain vaccines and mild infections, termed ‘trained immunity’, induces potent heterologous protection against infections. I propose that induction of trained immunity is an important novel approach to improved vaccination in the elderly. Induction of trained immunity is regulated by the interaction between the host genome, microbiome, and the epigenetic and…
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