Our immune system surveils and protects every organ in our bodies by repairing injuries, destroying pathogens and killing cancer cells.
The Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG) represents a new initiative by the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University to leverage the ability of the immune system to combat disease. The IMMCG will accomplish this by assembling teams of biomedical researchers with strong records of scientific innovation and technological development.
The IMMCG is co-directed by world-class immunologists Drs. Catherine ‘Lynn’ Hedrick and Klaus Ley, both of whom have made major discoveries linking immune cells to specific mechanisms of disease.
The goal of the IMMCG is to produce novel and effective treatments for conditions that heavily impact the communities of Georgia and the United States. The new center is aggressively recruiting faculty and staff to lead projects focused on cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic disorders, autoimmune and infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer.
Sniffing out disease: Doctor duo to take immunology research 'to a new level' in Augusta
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused unprecedented attention on the immune system as central to good health. Scientists tasked with creating a center devoted to it at Medical College of Georgia say the immune system is integral to combatting illness from cancer to heart disease....
Myeloid cell diversity during COVID-19 hospitalization
The Hedrick Laboratory finds that groups of monocytes are linked to COVID-19 severity
La Jolla, CA – Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) results from infection with SARS-CoV-2 and has so far claimed over 6.5 million lives worldwide. COVID-19 can range in intensity between a mild flu-like condition or a severe respiratory illness....
The Back Story: In Sickness & In Health
Like our brown eyes and the angle of our chin, our innate immunity is something we are born with.
It’s the frontline and fundamental ability of our bodies to quickly and consistently attack a foreign invader, like SARS-CoV-2, or a bacterium that creeps into a cut on our finger....
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Renowned immunologists and vascular biologists Drs. Lynn Hedrick and Klaus Ley from the prestigious La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California will begin their new roles as co-directors of the new Center for Immunology at Augusta University in August.
Dr. Jennifer Sullivan, the dean of The Graduate School, proudly announced that Augusta University has received a “high research activity” ranking from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
The new Center for Immunology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University will dramatically expand research to better harness the power of the immune system to prevent and treat disease.
