Immunobiology of Human Herpesvirus Infections

该项目有三位研究者，Denis Moss教授、Rajiv Khanna博士和Scott Burrows博士，他们都曾参与过两次项目资助。该小组在疱疹病毒免疫学领域很有名，并在主要医学期刊上发表了许多科学论文。这项计划拨款的重点是两种人类疱疹病毒。第一种是爱泼斯坦-巴尔病毒，它会引起腺热，并与一系列人类癌症有关。第二种病毒是人类巨细胞病毒，它可以导致出生缺陷和移植患者的问题。在本期节目中，我们将探讨人体免疫系统如何控制这些病毒，并利用这些信息开发新的治疗方法。

This Program Grant has three investigators, Professor Denis Moss, Dr Rajiv Khanna and Dr Scott Burrows, each of whom has collaborated on two previous Program Grants. The group is well known in the area of herpesvirus immunology and have published numerous scientific papers in leading medical journals. This program grant focuses on two human herpesviruses. The first is called Epstein-Barr virus which causes glandular fever and is associated with arange of human cancers. The second virus is human cytomegalovirus which can cause birth defects and problems in transplant patients. In this program we are investigating how the body�s immune system controls these viruses to exploit this information to develop new treatments.