Welcome from the Chairperson
Program Officers
Recent years have brought growing recognition of the central role of the immune system in health and disease. Normal functioning of the immune system is critical for normal development and homeostasis. Conversely, dysregulated immune responses are of central importance to the pathogenesis and expression of a wide spectrum of diseases that cause an immense burden of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. and the world at large. Such diseases include infectious diseases (e.g. sepsis, HIV/AIDS, peptic ulcer disease), autoimmune diseases (e.g. multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes), allergic diseases (e.g. asthma), cardiovascular disease (e.g. coronary artery disease), neurodegenerative disease (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), genetic diseases (e.g. cystic fibrosis, lysosomal storage diseases), and cancers (e.g. lymphoma, cervical cancer).
Not unexpectedly, therefore, study of the immune system in health and disease, from the molecular level to that of whole organisms, has become a major focus of biomedical research over the last decade.
Continued expansion of research programs in basic and clinical immunology is essential for further progress towards the cure or amelioration of such disorders. Thus, the Immunobiology Graduate Program was designed to meet this growing demand for well-trained immunologists, both in the academic institutions and in industry.
-- Marsha Wills-Karp, PhD
For more information about the Immunobiology Graduate Training Program at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati, email immgp@cchmc.org or call 513-636-1339.
