Vera Byers

Vera Steinberger Byers is an American immunologist though it was originally used against graft-versus-host disease.

While at the University of Nottingham, she published some papers on the regulation of the immune response to urushiol in poison ivy/poison oak, also using a monoclonal antibody. Her work as a medical toxicologist pertaining to trichloroethylene The special master also wrote, "[Byers'] insistence that it was acceptable to use adult norms to measure the immune function of infants and young children was, frankly, incredible." and that the thiomersal used as a preservative in some vaccines is not harmful.

Byers formerly served on the editorial board of the journal Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, and has published some research in this journal.