immunobiology

American  

[im-yuh-noh-bahy-ol-uh-jee, ih-myoo-] / ˌɪm yə noʊ baɪˈɒl ə dʒi, ɪˌmyu- /

noun

1. the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.

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Other Word Forms

• immunobiologic adjective
• immunobiological adjective
• immunobiologist noun

Etymology

Origin of immunobiology

First recorded in 1955–60; immuno- + biology

Example Sentences

Though not given in the U.S., the tuberculosis vaccine introduces humans to what is among the oldest microorganisms that co-evolved with humans, says Dr. Denise L. Faustman, director of immunobiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Individuals with type 1 diabetes are highly susceptible to infectious diseases and had worse outcomes when they were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus," said senior author Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, director of the Immunobiology Laboratory at MGH and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

From Science Daily

"Urinary tract infections account for almost 25% of infections in women," said senior author Soman Abraham, Ph.D., professor in the departments of Pathology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Integrative Immunobiology, and Cell Biology at Duke University School of Medicine.

From Science Daily

"There is a shared immune response between the brain and the eye," said Eric Song, an associate research scientist and resident physician in Yale School of Medicine's Department of Immunobiology and corresponding author of the paper.

From Science Daily

Xiangyun Yin, an associate researcher in Yale's Department of Immunobiology; Sophia Zhang, an undergraduate student at Yale College; and Ju Hyun Lee, a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, are co-lead authors of the study.

From Science Daily