Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Designing and running experiments to understand how immune cells and antibodies respond to infections, vaccines or disease.
Culturing cells and running assays such as ELISA, flow cytometry and PCR to measure immune responses.
Studying immune disorders such as allergies, immunodeficiency and autoimmune conditions, and the mechanisms behind them.
Evaluating candidate vaccines, antibodies or immunotherapies in preclinical studies and, in clinical roles, in patient-based trials.
Analysing data with statistical and bioinformatics tools and interpreting what the results mean.
Clinical immunologists diagnose and manage patients with allergies, immune deficiencies and autoimmune diseases, and advise other doctors.
Writing research papers, grant proposals and reports, and presenting findings at conferences, while following lab safety and documentation standards.
