Lathem has been an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University since 2007.

After that, I came to the Netherlands where I'm now doing a Ph.D. in theoretical immunology.

But the solution is animal tissue because it's plentiful, it's cheap, you can get it from young, healthy tissues, but the barrier is immunology.

Although varying among disciplines say, astrophysics, molecular genetics, the immunology, the microbiology, the public health, to the new area of the human body as a symbiont, to public health, environmental science.

That is why I, along with eight fellow scientists, have proposed the establishment of a new human immunology based clinical research initiative, the Human Vaccines Project. In February 2014, leading scientists and public health specialists will gather in La Jolla, California, to craft a scientific plan to identify, prioritize, and, most important, solve the major problems currently hindering development of vaccines against diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.