Early Life Exposures Guide Immune System Development in Human Newborns

Thursday, June 26, 2025

3:30pm - 3:55pm East Coast USA Time

Location: Salons H-K

Speaker(s)

Petter Brodin, MD, PhD

Garfield Weston Chair, professor of pediatric immunology
Karolinska Institutet & Imperial College London

Disclosure(s):

Petter Brodin, MD, PhD: No relevant disclosure to display

What is known about qualitative and quantitative differences in microbial exposures during the first weeks of life in human newborns
How does functional immune cell responses evolve during the first year of life
How can early life colonization by diverse microbes including chronic viruses like CMV, contribute to the shaping of human immune systems