On tending sprouts: empowering emerging immunologists in Latin America

Marion E G Brunck; Maria Julia Lamberti; Anne M Hahn

doi:10.1016/j.it.2025.02.006

On tending sprouts: empowering emerging immunologists in Latin America

Trends Immunol. 2025 Apr;46(4):259-262. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2025.02.006. Epub 2025 Mar 5.

Authors

Marion E G Brunck¹, Maria Julia Lamberti², Anne M Hahn³

Affiliations

¹ The Institute for Obesity Research, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Electronic address: marion.brunck@tec.mx.
² Departamento de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicoquímicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto X5800BIA, Argentina; Instituto de Biotecnología Ambiental y Salud (INBIAS), Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto (UNRC) y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Rio Cuarto X5800BIA, Argentina.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 40050163
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2025.02.006

Abstract

Supporting emerging immunologists in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is crucial amidst fragile funding and policy shifts in the region. Their growth can deliver region-specific health solutions, foster pandemic preparedness, and advance neglected tropical disease research, paying it forward to reduce health inequities and drive global scientific progress.

Keywords: Caribbean; Latin America; early-career immunologists.

MeSH terms

Allergy and Immunology* / education
COVID-19 / epidemiology
Caribbean Region
Humans
Latin America
Pandemics
Tropical Medicine