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ReviewTrends in immunology2024

Modeling human immune responses to vaccination in vitro.

Elena Morrocchi, Simon van Haren, Paolo Palma, Ofer Levy

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Review in Trends in immunology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A review on applying immunological methods in animal research.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2026
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  3. Lymphoid-Tissue-on-Chip Recapitulates Human Antibody Responses In Vitro.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Immune development in early life.Nature immunology · 2026
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  6. CD4+ T-cell immunity toDiscover immunity · 2026
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  8. Innovative micro physiological systems for vaccine development.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025
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  12. Assessment ofMolecular pharmaceutics · 2025
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  13. Vaccinology: Getting our modernization act together.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elena MorrocchiAcademic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit of Clinical Immunology and Vaccinology, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy; Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Simon van HarenPrecision Vaccines Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Paolo PalmaAcademic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit of Clinical Immunology and Vaccinology, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy; Chair of Pediatrics, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy. Electronic address: paolo.palma@opbg.net.
Ofer LevyPrecision Vaccines Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: ofer.levy@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Transcriptomics to define biomarkers of neonatal vaccine immunogenicityU19AI118608 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, OFER · 2017 to 2021
$24.7M
Small-molecule adjuvants to enhance the efficacy of flu vaccines in newborns and the elderly75N93019C00044 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEVY, OFER · 2019 to 2023
$11.0M
Proteomics and Metabolomics Core: IDEAL shapes vaccine response, susceptibility to respiratory infectious disease and asthmaU19AI168643 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI OFER LEVY · 2022 to 2026
$10.0M
NIAID NIH HHS 75N93019C00044NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201800047CNIAID NIH HHS U19 AI118608NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI168643
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human immune system is a complex network of coordinated components that are crucial for health and disease. Animal models, commonly used to study immunomodulatory agents, are limited by species-specific differences, low throughput, and ethical concerns. In contrast, in vitro modeling of human immune responses can enable species- and population-specific mechanistic studies and translational development within the same study participant. Translational accuracy of in vitro models is enhanced by accounting for genetic, epigenetic, and demographic features such as age, sex, and comorbidity. This review explores various human in vitro immune models, considers evidence that they may resemble human in vivo responses, and assesses their potential to accelerate and de-risk vaccine discovery and development.

Indexed as

VaccinationVaccinesAnimalsHumansImmunityVaccinesadjuvanthumanin vitromodelingtissue culturevaccine

Identifiers

PMID38135599
PMCPMC11688643

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