Talia Richter-Sissman

Nipah virus is an infectious virus with a 40-75% fatality rate, and langya virus is a new virus, discovered in 2022, so little is known about its properties. Nipah virus and langya virus are both henipaviruses with M, V and W proteins. My research uses a method to insert proteins from these viruses into human cells in order to identify how these viral proteins interact with the innate cellular immune response.