Hastie was recently named an LJI Research Assistant Professor. Her new lab will focus on “New World” Arenaviruses, a family of viruses that has become a growing threat in the Americas. These viruses ...

LJI Research Assistant Professor Sydney Ramirez, M.D., Ph.D. In 2024, Sydney Ramirez, M.D., Ph.D., changed the field of immunology. The problem was blood. Only a fraction of the body’s immune cells ...

At La Jolla Institute, our breakthroughs in immunology make Life Without Disease® possible.

At La Jolla Institute, our breakthroughs in immunology make Life Without Disease® possible.

LA JOLLA, CA—Vaccine researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have been awarded up to $49 million from the U.S. Government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The ...

LA JOLLA, CA—What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal key pieces that let it fuse itself into the host cell membrane. Once the ...

Dr. Kawakami has been using the high-affinity IgE receptor (FceRI) signaling in mast cells as a model system. Following his co-discovery of two Tec family PTKs, Btk and Itk, in mast cells, his group ...

LA JOLLA—A new study co-led by scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) adds increasing evidence that Parkinson’s disease is partly an autoimmune disease. In fact, the researchers ...

LA JOLLA, CA—La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) continues to lead the way in immune system data science. Now a renewed contract with the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of ...

Virulent isolates of CMV encode the ul144 orf, and we identified UL144 as an orthologue of the herpesvirus entry mediator (HVEM), a member of the TNF receptor superfamily. When the immune checkpoint ...

The La Jolla Institute for Immunology is a world-renowned research organization specializing in human immunology and its role in human disease. Our 20+ principal investigators conduct groundbreaking, ...