The University-Wide Center
The Immune system is absolutely essential to normal health and funciton
and plays an intimate role in virually all disease processes. Because of this
pervasive influence, investigation of the immune response is essential to many
disciplines within the biological and biomedical sciences, and faculty with
research programs in immunology are found in numerous University departments.
The Center for Immunology was established in 1995 as a University-wide
multidisciplinary center to coordinate and promote efforts in basic immunology
research, education and clinical applications at the University of Minnesota.
The Basic Immunology Program
Immunology is both a discipline and a focus of multidisciplinary
research efforts ranging from basic investigations to clinical applications. The
Center houses the Basic Immunology Program, a multi-departmental group of
investagators who are involved in immunology education, and whose research is
focused primarily at a basic level. Many of the investigators collaborate in
translational studies, but their research primarily addresses fundamental
questions of immune response mechanisms. Maintaining a strong core of basic
immunology is essential to the educational , researhc and clinical missions of
the Medical School and University. In the absence of a department-based
immunology program, the Basic Immunology Program of the Center serves as the
home for the discipline of immunology at the University of Minnesota.
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