Your gifts fuel groundbreaking discoveries and life-changing care.
BRI is a world leader in human immunology. We’re taking on some of the most challenging questions in our field, aiming to improve the lives of people with immune system diseases like autoimmune diseases, cancer, asthma and allergies. Thanks to the incredible support of our donor community, we're making progress on better treatments — and moving closer to prevention and cures.
Why BRI
“Meeting BRI’s team showed us that BRI gets it — they know there’s a lot of work to do, but they’re innovative and persistent. It showed us, without a doubt, BRI will be the ones to find a cure.”
- BRI supporter Gretchen Schoenstein
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Philanthropy in Action at BRI
“A transformational gift from one of BRI’s generous donors helped get my lab off the ground. That gift paved the way for discoveries that are helping us better understand the cells and processes that lead to lupus and other autoimmune diseases.”
Innovation Fund Backs Exciting New Research
Allyson Byrd, PhD, and Cate Speake, PhD, are exploring an innovative tool in immunology research. The questions they can ask are limitless.
Innovation Fund Spotlight: Exploring Immune System Cells and Gut Bacteria
Allyson Byrd, PhD, is an expert in the gut microbiome, the study of the tiny organisms that live inside our digestive system. James Lord, MD, PhD, is a gastroenterologist who has studied inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis for more than 20 years.
Innovation Fund Spotlight: State-of-the-Art Genome Editing To Understand Disease and Develop New Therapies
Learn how CRISPR-Cas9-based genome engineering using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors is helping BRI scientists make breakthroughs to study human T cells and explore new treatments for type 1 diabetes, as well as develop preclinical models to study T cells and B cell
