The Tullie and Rickey Families SPARK Awards provide flexible start-up funding that enables LJI’s early career investigators to act on their promising projects for bold new approaches to diagnoses, treatments, and possibly even cures for diseases that afflict us today.

In collaboration with La Jolla Institute for Immunology, the San Diego Center for Precision Immunotherapy (SDCPI) was established as an academic center at UC San Diego Health in June of 2017 in an effort to make personalized cancer immunotherapy available to all patients, regardless of what cancer they are facing.

The LJI SURGE Program features projects that have a strong translational opportunity but need funding to bridge the gap from discovery to clinical trials/market. Philanthropic support for the SURGE fund or a specific SURGE projects gives donors the opportunity to directly contribute to bringing discoveries closer to patients.

The cure for asthma exists. Yet, each and every day 35,000 people suffer an asthma attack somewhere in the U.S.