Minnie McMillan

Expert in gene therapy and vaccine design
  • Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine
Office: (323) 865-0628

Expertise

  • molecular biology of immune response
  • molecular biology of graft rejection
  • histocompatibility - the form ofcompatibility that depends upontissue components, mainly specificglycoprotein antigens in cellmembranes
  • major histocompatibility complex (MHC)interactions with T cell receptors
  • DNA expression vectors designed toelicit an immune response specificfor HIV
  • gene therapy to treat mice withautoimmune encephalomyelitis,the animal model for multiple sclerosis
  • vaccine design and immunotherapy
  • vaccination against infectious disease
  • immunology