Cindy sits down with Bali Pulendran at the AAI 2025 meeting where he told the story of how a childhood fascination with the cosmos grew into a career addressing fundamental questions about the human immune response, and how when an antigen enters the body it is like the big bang in how it initiates immune responses.

Host: Cindy Leifer

Guest: Bali Pulendran

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Systems vaccinology determines antibody responses and durability (Nature 2025)
World’s largest immunology experiment (Sem Immunol 2024)
Systems Vaccinology Review (Immunity 2010)
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