Connection and collaboration are how ImmunoX works.

ImmunoX is a new way to do science

The old way

Competition
Collaboration
Separate
Interdependent
Isolated
Shared
Territorial
Connected
Hierarchical
Integrated
Patients are distant
Patients are central
Separate disciplines, departments
Integrated disciplines, departments
Separate data sets
Shared data sets
Top down hierarchical organization
Emergent distributed organization
Lab leader is the source of new breakthroughs
Diverse team is the source of new breakthroughs
Ideas come from Leader
Ideas come from all

If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that the body has so much more to teach us -- not only about individual systems, but about how it is organized...and how WE should organize to study it. The X in ImmunoX stands for everything that connects to the immune system. It stands for inclusiveness and for working together to accelerate science.We at ImmunoX match our approach to our subject: everything is connected.

Two scientists looking at a stain

Making faster cures by sharing data

ImmunoX is purposefully combining and curating individual studies using a shared Data Library to facilitate rapid discovery and cures.

Two scientists in a BSL3 lab looking at a culture dish

Approaching COVID-19 head on

When COVID-19 arrived, we sprung into action by forming new, unexpected partnerships, and innovating on new methods and approaches – all to put our science to work against this global threat. The immune system—functioning or malfunctioning—is a major part of this disease. Treating it and future pandemics will require us to continue to collaborate and pivot.

PI talking to postdoc in lab

Focusing on facilitating interaction and collaboration

Science progresses, not just through individual efforts, but through a proverbial sandbox of collaboration, improvisation, and listening to one another’s ideas. ImmunoX seeks to recreate that sandbox by enhancing new interactions and bringing generations of scientists together to answer new and existing questions.

PI talking to grad student in lab

Creating a scientific community with room for creativity and diversity

A place where students can teach, and investigators can learn; a place where anyone is welcome to take the initiative and find new solutions to old problems.

PI and trainee looking at optical equipment

Cancer immunotherapy leads the way

Investigators at UCSF and across the world have discovered remarkable qualities of our immune system that can be harnessed to treat and cure cancers. We want our labs to function with the same facility and tenacity that our immune systems do.

Who are immunologists?

What is immunology?

Science Welcomes Video

Science Welcomes

Science is not a strange pursuit. It is simply about asking an important question and figuring out a way to answer it. The lab welcomes. ...

Humans of Science video

Humans of Science

Everyone has a story

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Immune Tattoos Video

Immune Tattoos?

Tattoos are durable because of the Immune System. Why?

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Resources to learn more

Blog

Antobodies interfiere with our of malaria

Vaccines are on everyone’s mind in 2020. We are fortunate that initial testing of COVID-19 vaccines has yielded encouraging outcomes....

EVENTS

IMSS: Chris Goodnow

PODCAST

'Carry the one' radio

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EVENTS

IMJC: Hilde Schjerven

NEWS

Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly - featuring some of ImmunoX's Researchers

Hidden autoimmunity may explain how the coronavirus wreaks such widespread and unpredictable harm.