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Allen Institute for Immunology

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

Ananda Goldrath, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President, Director of Allen Institute for Immunology

Lynne A. Becker, Ph.D.

Associate Director of Scientific Program Management

Ernie Coffey, MBA

Executive Director, Scientific Operations

Xiaojun Li, Ph.D.

Director, Informatics & Computational Biology

Paul Meijer, Ph.D.

Director, Software Development, Database, and Pipelines

Peter Skene, Ph.D.

Director, High Resolution Translational Immunology

Troy Torgerson, M.D., Ph.D

Director, Experimental Immunology

By mapping the immune system at high resolution, we are gaining insights into interconnected processes of how the immune system works across age and health which holds the key to treating a broad spectrum of diseases.

Our research

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Autoimmunity

What goes wrong when our immune systems attack our own bodies?

Autoimmunity Research

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Cancer

Paving the way for more effective treatments across a broad spectrum of multiple myeloma patients.

Oncology Research

Immunology Health and Aging Research

Immune Health and Aging

Interrogating immune cell types and functionality in diverse human populations across health and aging.

Immune Health & Aging

Inflammation

Dissecting the mechanisms of chronic immune dysfunction.

Inflammation Research

Shane Crotty, Ph.D.

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Matthew Krummel, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Shweta Singh Maniar

Virginia Pascual, M.D.

Drukier Institute for Children’s Health at Weill Cornell Medicine

Harinder Singh, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

Carl F. Ware, Ph.D.

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Gene Yeo, Ph.D. MBA

University of California San Diego

Donna L. Farber, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Understanding life. Advancing health.

Solving mysteries of bioscience

The Allen Institute is an independent nonprofit bioscience research institute aimed at unlocking the mysteries of biology.

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Our Research

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