October 28, 2020

Coppoc One Health virtual lecture to focus on the critical development of immune responses in controlling COVID-19 pandemic

The College of Veterinary Medicine’s seventh annual Coppoc One Health Lecture on Nov. 5 will feature a medical expert on immune response and its importance in developing vaccines against viruses.

Dr. Stanley Perlman, professor of microbiology and immunology and professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa, will present “Immune Responses in, and Animal Models for, COVID-19.” The event will take place virtually at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 5 via Zoom. No registration is required.

Perlman will discuss previous studies of humans infected with common cold coronaviruses, and more dangerous SARS-CoV or MERSCoV coronaviruses, with emphasis on those features that help predict the immune response to COVID-19. According to Perlman, the development of a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 — the COVID-19 virus — is critical in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Successful development requires knowledge of a protective immune response. The protective and pathogenic aspects of the immune response will be described in this lecture, as well as animal models for COVID-19.

Perlman received his PhD in biophysics from MIT and his MD from the University of Miami. He was trained in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Perlman’s current research efforts are focuses on coronavirus pathogenesis, including virus-induced demyelination and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and COVID-19.

The Coppoc One Health Lecture is held in honor of the Gordon Coppoc, a Purdue professor emeritus of veterinary pharmacology, and his wife, Harriet. Coppoc is a longtime faculty member and former head of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences in the Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine. He also served as director of the Indiana University School of Medicine of West Lafayette and associate dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine before retiring in December 2014.

Writer: Makenna Fitzgerald, fitzge39@purdue.edu


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