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Medical Microbiology and Immunology

MMI 677 Vaccines: Past, Present & Future
Spring 2008

Director: William Weidanz, Ph.D.
Rm 3205 Microbial Sciences Building
wweidanz@wisc.edu
Dates: Tuesday & Thursday, January 22 until March 15
Time: 12:05 - 12:55 pm
Location: Rm 2301 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
Prequisites: Graduate student status or consent of instructor
Credits: 1

Description:

Vaccines represent the most cost-effective medical intervention known to prevent death and disease.  Our purpose is to explore how vaccines have accomplished this in the past and how they continue to do so in the present.  We will consider innovative approaches to the development and use of vaccines in the future and the economic, ethical and safety issues associated with vaccine development and use at any time.

Syllabus (Word doc; PDF also available)

Date Lecture Topic
Jan 22 Conquest of infectious diseases through immunization: a brief historical account. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Jan 24 Impact of vaccines on infectious disease epidemiology. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Jan 29 Economics of vaccines. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Jan 31 Immunology, the basis of vaccinology. (Powerpoint; PDF also available and slide 11)
Feb 5 Vaccines: from bench to clinic. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Feb 7 Vaccine safety. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Feb 12 Mid-term examination.
Feb 14 Controversy linking childhood immunization with autism and other diseases. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Feb 19 Vaccines: formulations and administration. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Feb 21 Ethics and vaccines: HPV vaccine. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Feb 26 Influenza vaccines–Dr. Schultz-Cherry. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Feb 28 Other new vaccines: Rotovirus vaccine and Zoster vaccine. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Mar 4 Vaccines for HIV and tuberculosis. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Mar 6 Malaria vaccine–Dr. Carole Long. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Mar 11 Therapeutic vaccines. (Powerpoint; PDF also available)
Mar 13 Final examination.
 
 
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