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Tierra Buck

Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
ORCID
ORCID logo 0000-0002-4792-1312

Projects

Medical Defenses Against Emerging Infectious Disease

Lead Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Principal Investigator
Erica Saphire
Hemorrhagic fever viruses like Ebola, Marburg, and Lassa cause up to 90% lethality. To study these re-emerging threats to human health and develop the needed vaccines and antivirals, our laboratory…

Structural Analysis of Lineage I Lassa Virus Glycoprotein

Lead Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Principal Investigator
Erica Saphire
Lassa virus (LASV), the causative agent of Lassa hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in Western Africa, infecting over 100,000 people every year, resulting in roughly 5,000 deaths—yet no vaccines are…