Prof Ramsuran to Present at the IDEaL Annual Meeting at Johns Hopkins University

This September, Prof Veron Ramsuran will travel to Johns Hopkins University to participate in the Immune Development in Early Life (IDEaL) Annual Meeting, taking place from 16–17 September 2026. The two-day meeting will bring together researchers from leading institutions to explore how the immune system develops during the earliest stages of life and how these early processes can shape health across childhood and beyond.

The programme spans a wide range of research in early-life immunity, from vaccine responses and respiratory infections to T-cell development, immune regulation and multi-omics. Researchers from institutions including Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Medical School, Yale University, Columbia University and others will contribute to discussions around some of the most important questions in childhood immune development.

Their presentation will examine differences in immune responses between males and females and how these differences emerge and evolve during critical stages of early development. The first 1,000 days of life represent an important period of growth and immune development, and exploring how biological sex influences immunity during this period, and how these differences continue through childhood and adolescence, can provide important insight into why immune responses and disease outcomes may differ between individuals.