Dr. Tania Watts has dedicated her career to the study of how our bodies respond to infections like HIV and influenza. As a professor at the University of Toronto, Dr. Watts has spent many years studying T Cells, a type of white blood cell that plays a very important role in the immune system. Her lab currently studies T cell responses to viruses and like many labs around the world, has now turned its attention to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr. Watts’ work informs the creation of vaccines and her insights have contributed to the understanding of what will and won’t work as the world searches to vaccinate itself against the virus.
Join us in conversation with Dr. Tania Watts as she explains how her lessons learned about influenza have informed today’s research on COVID-19.
