Featured in this issue
Letter From the President - Spring 2020
Outbreak Alert: Coronavirus
Up and Coming: Marco Orecchioni, Ph.D.
Q&A with Klaus Ley, M.D.
Know Your Enemies
The power of mentoring
ILLUMINATION: 21st Century Interactions with ART + SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY
Past issues
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
Fall, 2019
When Friend Becomes Foe
Inside the body’s defense system – and how it goes haywire in autoimmune diseases
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…
Spring, 2018
Vaccines
As they peel away the complex layers that form the human immune system, scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology are revealing a fascinating path to a new generation of powerful vaccines they believe will soon turn the tide against some of the world’s deadliest diseases, including cancer and heart disease.