LAB NEWS
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.

