Goals and Approach

The Immune Health and Aging Program at the Allen Institute for Immunology is focused on what defines a healthy immune system across age. Their interdisciplinary team of immunologists, technology developers, computational biologists and cloud computing specialists collaborate with researchers from around the world to enable large-scale studies on diverse human populations using cutting-edge, multi-omic tools that include single cell technologies, plasma proteomics, and integrative tissue biology techniques. They use these tools to deeply interrogate healthy immune responses and how these responses change with age, time and location. They strive to accelerate the understanding of immune heterogeneity and causes of age-related immune dysfunction and disease, and provide these foundational scientific resources to the global research community as part of a data exploration and integrative analysis platform.