Sleuthing the immune system's mysterious T-regs
Fred Hutch immunologist Dr. Jennifer Lund knows that regulatory T cells, or T-regs, have an outsized and underappreciated role maintaining health and fighting disease. Her work shows how T-regs contribute to immunity to viral infections like COVID-19, HIV, West Nile Virus, Zika and herpes. In fact, it all started with herpes.