Unraveling the mysteries of the immune system in health and disease
The Allen Institute for Immunology will work to understand the dynamic balancing act of the human immune system, how it senses friend from foe and what goes wrong when we’re ill. This will help us to improve immune health and how we diagnose, treat and prevent immune-related diseases. Everything we do begins with patients who are living with and suffering from these diseases. We believe that by unlocking the mysteries of the immune system, we can make a significant improvement in patients’ health and well being.
Immunology News
News
3 immune mysteries of COVID-19 — and 1 big success story
January 12, 2021
The pandemic has revealed how much we really don’t know about our own immune systems, experts say
Podcast
Starved but unable to eat: Life with Crohn’s
December 23, 2020
Aldan Beaubien was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in high school. Now an IT engineer at a research institute studying the disease, he has new hope for better treatments or even a cure.
News
Q&A with a bioinformatics expert on the challenges of studying human immunology
September 28, 2020
Xiaojun Li shares the career path that brought him to become Director of Bioinformatics at the Allen Institute for Immunology, and why he’s excited about immunology research