May 29, 2025
Innovation Fund Spotlight: State-of-the-Art Genome Editing To Understand Disease and Develop New Therapies
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December 14, 2022
$3.5 Million to Study Down Syndrome and the Immune System
What goes wrong in the immune system that causes autoimmune disease or limits its ability to fight infections? That’s the question Bernard Khor, MD, PhD, started with 12 years ago. His search for answers led him somewhere unexpected: to people with Down syndrome.
February 10, 2022
Research Fuels Change: One Family’s Motivation to Participate
Becky Ronan has seen firsthand how research has impacted life for people with Down syndrome. When her older brother Kevin was born with Down syndrome in 1967, her parents were advised not to bring him home. “Most people with Down syndrome were put in institutions,” Becky says.
January 5, 2022
Understanding Down Syndrome and Autoimmunity
You’ve probably heard of Down syndrome. You may even remember that it’s caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. But fewer people know that almost half of those with Down syndrome have an autoimmune disease. Or that they are at lower risk of solid tumor cancers like breast cancer.
August 19, 2021
Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Response: New Studies for Autoimmune Disease and Down Syndrome
Throughout the pandemic, Cate Speake, PhD, and the Center for Interventional Immunology have conducted countless COVID-19 studies — from understanding how the immune system responds to the virus to testing the Pfizer vaccine.
July 15, 2021
Immunowhat? Making Sense of What It Means to be Immunocompromised
Words like “immunocompromised” are broad by design: They’re meant to encompass how a wide variety of conditions impact the immune system.
May 17, 2018
Mystery Of Multiple Autoimmune Diseases
Lauren Lippincott is not yet 35 years old, yet she lives with five autoimmune diseases. She’s not alone. About 25 percent of people with autoimmune diseases have a tendency to develop additional autoimmune diseases.
July 13, 2017
Building a Lab and a Biorepository
For Bernard Khor, MD, PhD, scientific research has a distinct connection with another one of his passions: food. “Part of the reason I like food is that I think chefs have a lot in common with scientists,” he says.
