Moreover, Dr. Gazzinelli highlighted the successes achieved by the NISTV researchers, related to topics such as innate immunity, inflammasomes, adjuvant discovery, cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and host resistance against Chagas disease or Malaria, antigen discovery for Leishmania infection, mAb cloning for the identification of novel malaria antigens and others. Here, CD8A is linked to malaria.