{"id":6372,"date":"2026-01-27T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:23:08","slug":"csb-research-spotlight-georgiev-lab-developing-antibody-therapeutics-against-existing-and-emerging-viral-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2026\/01\/27\/csb-research-spotlight-georgiev-lab-developing-antibody-therapeutics-against-existing-and-emerging-viral-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"CSB Research Spotlight: Georgiev Lab\u2014Developing antibody therapeutics against existing and emerging viral threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Georgiev lab recently led a multi-institutional study, published in the journal Cell, that focused on the development of antibody therapeutics against existing and emerging viral threats, including RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and avian influenza viruses.<\/p>\n

The study showed that a protein language model could design functional human antibodies that recognized the unique antigen sequencies (surface proteins) of<\/p>\n

specific viruses, without requiring part of the antibody sequence as a starting template.<\/p>\n

Read more about using AI to speed antibody design<\/a> to thwart novel viruses.<\/p>\n

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The Georgiev lab recently led a multi-institutional study, published in the journal Cell, that focused on the development of antibody therapeutics against existing and emerging viral threats, including RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and avian influenza viruses. The study showed that a protein language model could design functional human antibodies that recognized the unique antigen sequencies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6375,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}