Welcome!

The Vella Lab is part of the division of Infectious Diseases at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Striving to elucidate immune health, we specialize in studying human CD4 T cells in the setting of vaccination, immune reconstitution, and HIV.
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Our mission is to advance translational immunology so that understanding of disease and clinical decisions can be informed by our research advances.


                                             Common Methods used in our Lab:

•Spectral Cytometry                                                                                

                                                                                                                           
•New Single Cell Sequencing approaches


•Human tissue-based isolation and culture

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