Letter from the President
Of the three major research areas La Jolla Institute for Immunology focuses on—infectious disease, cancer, and autoimmune disease—the latter is
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Featured in this issue
When Friend Becomes Foe
Your immune system is you. You were born with the inklings of immune protection, and this protection grew and grew
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Up and Coming: Julie Burel, Ph.D.
When La Jolla Institute (LJI) postdoctoral researcher Julie Burel, Ph.D., isn’t in the lab, she’s adventuring. She’s gone diving in
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Q&A with Alessandro Sette, Dr. Biol. Sci.
Raised in Rome, Italy, in a family of lawyers, Dr. Sette started his science career as a young boy in
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Building a world-class imaging facility
During the last week of August, the trucks finally started to arrive. Carefully nestled inside 22 huge wooden crates was
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Patient takes charge of his treatment path and partners with LJI researchers to create a fully personalized cancer vaccine
But Aldrich was not a normal patient. After the retired entrepreneur learned he had metastatic adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and
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Donors endow SPARK Program to fund innovative research by Institute’s young scientists
Two San Diego high tech executives with deep entrepreneurial experience are determined to provide that path. Tom Tullie and Dave
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Past issues
Fall, 2021
Erica Ollmann Saphire takes the helm
As the new President and CEO of La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), Dr. Saphire aims to bring together the best researchers to address the biggest question out there: Why does a person get sick?
Spring, 2021
Learning from men. Learning from women.
Men and women have different immune systems. With a better understanding of sex-specific immune differences, scientists can more effectively fight infections, cancers, heart disease, and even pregnancy complications.
Fall, 2020
The World Goes Crazy Around You
An oral history of how LJI scientists came together against COVID-19
Spring, 2020
Know Your Enemies
They help us digest food, balance our immune system, and keep our hearts and brains healthy. But harmful viruses and bad bacteria can creep in at any time.
Spring, 2019
Data Don't Scare 'Em
The contents of the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) are shocking. The free, searchable site is home to data from more than 1.6 million immunology experiments, making it a one-stop shop for understanding and predicting the body’s response to viruses, bacteria, cancer, allergens, and more.
Summer, 2018
Immunoprofiling
The composition of an immune system varies not just from person to person, but over time—shifting as our health changes, as we encounter different viruses and bacteria, and as we age. Within that variability lies important clues to improving human health…