Research Training Grant in Geriatrics and Gerontology - Faculty

John Treanor, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

He is the Principal Investigator and Director of the University of Rochester Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU).  Recent studies have included evaluation of live attenuated influenza vaccines in infants and young children, evaluation of smallpox, anthrax and genital herpes vaccines in healthy adults, and evaluation of novel inactivated influenza vaccines and of protein-conjugate pneumococcal vaccines in ambulatory elderly adults.  In collaboration with Ed Walsh and Ann Falsey, the unit also evaluates the immune response to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults using a recently described human infection model.  Dr. Treanor has a long standing interest in influenza pathogenesis and vaccine development.  He has collaborations with Dr. Eun-Hyung Lee and Timothy Mosmann in studies evaluating aging and the immune response to influenza vaccine, with Dr. Xi Jin on the effect of lipid supplementation on influenza vaccine responses in the elderly, and with Dr. Jan Moynihan on the effects of stress on influenza immune responses in elderly residents of nursing homes. 

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