Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016

• 26. - Biological and biomedical sciences
• 26.05 - Microbiological sciences and immunology

26.0507 - Immunology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on scientific study of the biological mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of disease, host-pathogen interactions, and host response to disease. These programs include courses in antigen and antibody structure and function, effector mechanisms, receptors, histocompatibility, host-pathogen recognition, disease modelling, autoimmune systems, antibody formation, cytotoxic responses, regulation of immune response, virulence determinants, intercellular signalling, immunosuppression, immunotherapy, immunogenetics, disease markers, transplantation, antibody humanization, and microbial pathogenesis.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • immunology

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • immunopathology - residency(60.0526)
  • microbiology(26.0502)
  • microbiology and immunology(26.0508)
  • parasitology(26.0505)
  • virology(26.0504)