Vaccination Responses in Young and Older Adults

The primary investigation involves integrative multi-omics monitoring of individuals following their pneumonia vaccination over twelve time points. Genomic sequencing will be used to evaluate the volunteer's genomic risks based on variants with known disease association. Full transcriptome (via RNA-Sequencing), proteome and metabolome profiling (via mass spectrometry) will be performed per time-point. This will allow the dynamic monitoring of thousands of molecular components and their responses to vaccination, capturing both the initial innate response reaction in addition to the adaptive response and return to baseline. This study involves a simple blood draw, saliva collection, standard FDA-approved pneumococcal vaccine administration and Spirometry.