Penn Institute for Immunology

About the Institute for Immunology

The Penn Institute for Immunology (IFI) is a new Type-2 multidisciplinary center administered by the Perelman School of Medicine which will serve as an institution-wide locus to foster and integrate collaboration of faculty members across disciplines, schools, and departments at Penn. The Institute's goals are to promote the discovery, development, and delivery of novel immunologic approaches for preventing and treating infectious and immune-mediated diseases. Foremost among its missions will be to establish new interactions and synergistic collaborations that will accelerate innovative discoveries and to apply findings within the basic sciences to clinically-translatable approaches.

The Institute will promote educational activities and training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, as well as clinical house staff and fellows in human and veterinary medicine, and allied fields. It will also foster educational outreach activities to patients and to the community. This new, cross-institutional coalescence of outstanding, multi-disciplinary immunologists and the execution of its mission will provide substantial value to faculty and the institution.