{"id":2757,"date":"2023-04-10T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/2023\/04\/10\/dr-anthony-vella-named-fellow-by-the-american-association-of-advancement-of-science-2\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:00:55","slug":"dr-anthony-vella-named-fellow-by-the-american-association-of-advancement-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/2023\/04\/10\/dr-anthony-vella-named-fellow-by-the-american-association-of-advancement-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Anthony Vella Named Fellow by the American Association of Advancement of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2757\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2757-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2757-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2757-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span>Dr. Anthony Vella, Chair of the Department of Immunology who holds the Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Immunology and is the Senior Associate Dean of Research Planning and Coordination; has been elected as a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Dr. Vella's laboratory research focuses on aspects of T cell costimulation and inflammation biology with the aim to uncover how T cells function. Overall, his laboratory has uncovered fundamental concepts in basic immunology and adjuvant research, and has extended these finds into tumor immunotherapy projects, T cell immunobiology, inflammatory based disease models including lung injury and metabolism research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2757-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2757-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\"> <\/h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Vella\" class=\"attachment-full\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2023\/04\/vella-anthony-20180116-encarnacion-9843_350x200.jpg 350w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2023\/04\/vella-anthony-20180116-encarnacion-9843_350x200-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2023\/04\/vella-anthony-20180116-encarnacion-9843_350x200.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Vella, Chair of the Department of Immunology who holds the Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Immunology and is the Senior Associate Dean of Research Planning and Coordination; has been elected as a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is the world&#8217;s largest general scientific society and publisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":2752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 00:45:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}