Featured Publications

System vaccinology analysis of predictors and mechanisms of antibody response durability to multiple vaccines in humans

Cortese M et al, Nature Immunology, 2025

Pulendran and colleagues define a molecular signature that can be used to predict the durability of antibody responses to vaccination and reveal important insights into the mechanisms by which vaccines induce durable immunity.

Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity to the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine

Li C et al, Nat Immunology 2022

Analysis of the innate and adaptive responses to BNT162b2 in mice to show that immunization stimulated potent antibody and antigen-specific T cell responses, as well as strikingly enhanced innate responses after secondary immunization.

Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans

Arunachalam P et al, Nature 2021

A systems vaccinology approach to comprehensively profile the innate and adaptive immune responses of 56 healthy volunteers who were vaccinated with the Pfizer–BioNTech mRNA vaccine (BNT162b2)

Systems biological assessment of immunity to mild versus severe COVID-19 infection in humans

Arunachalam P et al, Science 2020

Analysis of immune responses in 76 COVID-19 patients and 69 healthy individuals from Hong Kong and Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

BCG vaccination stimulates integrated organ immunity by feedback of the adaptive immune response to imprint prolonged innate antiviral resistance

Lee A et al, Nat Immunology, 2024

BCG elicits integrated organ immunity, where CD4+ T cells feed back on tissue myeloid and epithelial cells to imprint prolonged and broad innate antiviral resistance.

Emerging concepts in the science of vaccine adjuvants

Pulendran B et al, Nat Rev Drug Discovery, 2021

A review of the ‘known knowns’ and ‘known unknowns’ of adjuvants.

The single-cell epigenomic and transcriptional landscape of immunity to influenza vaccination

Wimmers F et al, Cell 2021

Vaccination stimulates persistent epigenomic remodeling of the innate immune system and reveal AS03’s potential as an epigentic adjuvant.

Systems Vaccinology

Pulendran B et al, Immunity, 2010

A review of advances, potential opportunities and challenges posed by systems biology in vaccine development.