The medical school will welcome Sabra L. Klein, PhD, in March as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Klein’s presentation, "Sex differences in immunity to viruses and vaccines," is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
The event is free and CE and MEDU credit is available. For more information about CE credit, please go to https://bit.ly/3T41CdP. If you plan to attend, please register here.
Dr. Klein is a Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She co-directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex, and Gender Research and is an expert on sex differences in immune responses to microbes and vaccines, with interrogation of sex-specific effects of aging and pregnancy in humans and animal models.
Dr. Klein has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, has authored several book chapters, edited three books on the broad topics of sex differences in response to infection and treatments for infectious diseases, and is listed in the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide for publications. During the 2009 influenza pandemic, she was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to evaluate and publish a report on the impact of sex, gender, and pregnancy on the outcome of influenza virus infection.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Klein wrote commentaries for several journals and was interviewed by several major news media outlets about sex differences in immunity, disease outcomes, and responses to vaccines. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2023, she received the Vivian Pinn Award for Outstanding Research in Women’s Health.
Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at WMed aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within – and outside — the medical school.