Okinawa Institute Of Science And Technology (OIST)
Immunology
Onna, Japan
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EARLIEST START DATE
Apr 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This course covers principles of immunology, including cellular and molecular mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity and clinical relevance to HIV/AIDS, autoimmunity, and allergy. It shows how vaccination manipulates immune responses to prevent infectious diseases and treat cancer. The course sits at OIST, an international interdisciplinary research university with small research units, multidisciplinary collaboration, stable high-trust funding, and periodic peer review where professors and graduate students develop cross‑field projects.
Career Outcomes: Graduates may pursue roles such as research scientist, vaccine developer, clinical immunologist, or public health specialist, working in academia, pharma and biotech, or government and nonprofit health agencies.
In this course, students will learn basic principles of immunology including the cellular and molecular mechanism of innate and adaptive immunity. The course also provides the clinical importance of immunology in various diseases such as HIV/AIDS, autoimmunity and allergy. Then, students will learn how the immune response can be manipulated by vaccination to combat infectious diseases and cancer.
