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July, 2021

The Vijay Lab was started at RFUMS

November, 2022

Dr. Lijo John and Carolina Caloba presented their projects at Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago

January, 2022

Awarded Schweppe Scholar Award, RFUMS

January, 2024

Awarded the RFUMS-DePaul Collaborative Research Grant Program

April, 2024

Publication alert:
Role of TAM Receptors in Antimalarial Humoral Immune Response. Lijo John,    Rahul
Vijay   (PMID: 38668253)

March, 2024

Carolina Caloba presents at Woodshole Immunology Parasitology Meeting,
Woodshole, MA.

August, 2024

Carolina Caloba wins the AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship.

September, 2024

Awarded the NIH R01 grant from NIAID to study the “The Role of TAM receptors in anti-malarial humoral immunity”.

March, 2025

Carolina Caloba is awarded AAI Abstract award and presents her work at AAI’25, Honolulu, Hawaii.

April, 2025

Publication alert:
Systemic 4-1BB stimulation augments extrafollicular memory B cell formation and recall
responses during Plasmodium infection.

Carolina Caloba, Alexandria J Sturtz, Taylor A Lyons, Lijo John, Akshaya
Ramachandran, Allen M Minns, Anthony M Cannon, Justin P Whalley, Tania H Watts, Mark H
Kaplan   , Scott E Lindner   , Rahul Vijay   (PMID: 40215168)

October, 2025

Publication alert:
Protocol to identify and sort antigen-specific B cells from Plasmodium-infected miceCarolina Caloba, Allen M Minns, Scott E Lindner, Rahul Vijay   (PMID: 41066245)

November, 2025

Barbara Santos and Carolina Caloba presents at Autumn Immunology
Conference, Chicago

November, 2025

Rahul Vijay presents at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,
Toronto, Canada.

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