Michael Sela
Weizmann Institute of Science
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Primary Section: 43, Immunology and Inflammation Secondary Section: 21, Biochemistry Membership Type: International Member (elected 1976) |
Research Interests
My research interests include peptide and protein chemistry and immunology, the molecular basis of antigenicity, genetic control of immune response, conformational changes in antigens and antibodies, the phenomenon of autoimmunity, synthetic vaccines against infectious and autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, graft-versus-host disease, catalytic antibodies, immunotargeting of anti-cancer drugs, and the ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases.
