Our investigations in immunology span the cellular and molecular pathways underlying both the mobilization and suppression of the immune response. We study the immune and inflammatory response to infection, cancer, allergens, and transplanted organs, and explore the development and organization of lymphoid and myeloid cells. Our researchers also explore immune tolerance and homeostasis, particularly at interfaces with the commensal microbiota. Immunology students can expect to investigate how these pathways are altered during acute and chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, and different types of cancer, and learn how to design therapeutic strategies to boost or to dampen the immune response, as needed, in the fight against major human diseases.

Our students are often fiercely independent and yet wonderfully collaborative, with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints that lead to a greater breadth of inquiries and discoveries in our program. The Immunology training area is rigorous, yet flexible, and provides you with basic and translational research experience in mucosal immunology, innate immunity and inflammation, food allergy, primary and secondary immune deficiency, tumor immunology, and transplant immunology.