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Bali Pulendran, Jens Wrammert and Rafi Ahmed have earned the "Paper of the Year" award from the International Society for Vaccines.
The paper, published by the journal Nature Immunology, describes a method for predicting whether someone will produce high levels of antibodies against a flu shot, based on a scan of gene activity in the blood a few days after vaccination. The method is based on studies of human volunteers who were vaccinated during flu seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Pulendran, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the School of Medicine and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, was the senior author of the paper, "Systems biology of vaccination for seasonal influenza in humans."
Wrammert, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology in the School of Medicine, and Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, were co-authors.
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Steve Reba and Randee Waldman argued a case before the Georgia Supreme Court in January.
Reba is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Law. Waldman is director of the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic in the law school.
Reba and Waldman presented oral arguments before the Georgia high court in the appeal of the case of their client, a 27-year-old Tift County man who was sentenced to life plus 20 years for rape when he was a 14-year-old boy.