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Deepening our understanding of the immune system to understand how it works when we’re healthy, and what goes wrong in disease.
Goals and Approach
The Allen Institute for Immunology is working to advance the fundamental understanding of human immunology through the study of immune health and diseases where excessive or impaired immune responses drive pathological processes.
To truly understand the human immune system, it must be viewed through many different lenses and at multiple time points. Teams at the Allen Institute for Immunology focus on different areas so that, combined, findings and insights support a more complete picture of the immune system in different contexts.
Studies and data on the immune system generated by these teams can lead to actionable insights that will help scientists find treatments and therapies for immune-related diseases.
Research Programs
Feb 5, 2025
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Our research
What goes wrong when our immune systems attack our own bodies?
Paving the way for more effective treatments across a broad spectrum of multiple myeloma patients.
Interrogating immune cell types and functionality in diverse human populations across health and aging.
Dissecting the mechanisms of chronic immune dysfunction.
Investigating how immune cells establish and maintain protection within tissues.
Exploring how the nervous system shapes immune cell fate in health and disease.
Royal Society Open Science
Mar 05, 2025
Paul Meijer, Nicole Howard, Jessica Liang, Autumn Kelsey, Sathya Subramanian, Ed Johnson, Paul Mariz, James Harvey, Madeline Ambrose, Vitalii Tereshchenko, Aldan Beaubien, Neelima Inala, Yousef Aggoune, Stark Pister, Anne Vetto, Melissa Kinsey, Tom Bumol, Ananda Goldrath, Xiaojun Li, Troy Torgerson, Peter Skene, Lauren Okada, Christian La France, Zach Thomson, Lucas Graybuck
Nature
Miguel Reina-Campos, Alexander Monell, Amir Ferry, Vida Luna, Kitty P. Cheung, Giovanni Galletti, Nicole E. Scharping, Kennidy K. Takehara, Sara Quon, Peter P. Challita, Brigid Boland, Yun Hsuan Lin, William H. Wong, Cynthia S. Indralingam, Hayley Neadeau, Suzie Alarcón, Gene W. Yeo, John T. Chang, Maximilian Heeg, Ananda W. Goldrath
Journal of Translational Medicine
Jan 03, 2025
Alexander T. Heubeck, Cole Phalen, Neel Kaul, Peter J. Wittig, Jessica Garber, Morgan Weiss, Palak C. Genge, Zachary Thomson, Claire Gustafson, Julian Reading, Peter J. Skene
Understanding life. Advancing health.
The Allen Institute is an independent nonprofit bioscience research institute aimed at unlocking the mysteries of biology.
We are leaders in large-scale research that transforms our understanding of health and disease and shapes how science is conducted worldwide.