Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection
Harnessing the Body's Natural Defenses   There is no doubt that
we have made tremendous progress in understanding how the immune
system responds to disease, enabling us to develop vaccines for
so many of the illnesses, like polio, smallpox, and whooping
cough, that once haunted us.  But infectious diseases we thought
we had conquered, like tuberculosis, are returning in new guises
that resist standard treatments. And those that have emerged in
the past few decades and the more recent past, like toxic shock
syndrome, drug-resistant staphylococcus, and avian flu, present
dangerous new challenges.  Our goal is to understand and
ultimately control how the immune system defends the body at the
molecular and cellular levels. ITI teams, comprised of
immunologists, pathologists, microbiologists, infectious disease
experts, surgeons, scientists, and clinicians, are attacking
these challenges from dozens of different avenues, pooling their
talents and pouring their