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Brandi Tranae’ Johnson-Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Duke University. Her research focuses on vaccines as critical public health tools that modulate host immune responses and provide protection against infectious diseases. Dr. Johnson-Weaver's work aims to identify environmental exposures that can affect host immune responses to harmful insults, aiming to utilize vaccination as a means to regulate immunity for protective benefits. She is investigating innovative vaccine strategies that incorporate novel adjuvants and formulations to enhance the magnitude, durability, and efficacy of protective immunity in response to diseases such as peanut allergies and opioid use disorder. Her laboratory also aims to correlate host immune responses with protection against diseases, emphasizing the importance of understanding immune responses to develop targeted treatment options that are safer and more effective than current therapies.
Department of Pathology • Duke University, Durham, NC
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)