IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH within the MII program is focused in the following areas:
  • Antigen processing
  • Antigen recognition
  • Lymphocyte development
  • Tumor immunology
  • Autoimmunity
  • Host immune response to infection

For more information on specific mentors in Immunology Research, see: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/bims_mii/mentors_immuno.cfm 

Training in immunology is enriched by an NIH-funded training program.  For more information on the immunology training program at UVA, see: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cic/train/gradoverview.cfm/ 

Interested students should apply to the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Programs at the University of Virginia
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/admissions/apply.html  indicating “Biomedical Sciences” as the “Department Applied To” and “Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Disease” as the preferred “Area of Interest.” After submitting your application electronically, you will be prompted in an e-mail to list several areas of research foci.  Please select “immunology” as one of your foci.


Return to MII home page: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/bims_mii/