Fighting Diseases

Taking on Multiple Sclerosis

Despite the pandemic, Dr. Bettelli's team has kept their MS research moving forward, working toward solving some of the biggest mysteries of this complex disease.
Living With A Disease

Autoimmune Disease and Sun Exposure: What to Know

Can sun can trigger an autoimmune disease flare? Virginia Mason Rheumatologist and BRI Researcher Dr. Jeffrey Carlin explains.
News & Views

When the Phase is Right: An Infectious Disease Expert Weighs How to “Un-Quarantine”

Principal Investigator Uma Malhotra, MD, explains how to safely move into the next phases of the pandemic.
Fighting Diseases

New PI Explores How COVID-19 Affects Lungs

Carmen Mikacenic, MD, is using her perspective as a clinician and knowledge of a severe inflammatory syndrome to examine how COVID-19 affects the lungs.
Living With A Disease

Living with Autoimmune Disease During the Pandemic: 5 People Share Stories and Tips

COVID-19 has changed life for everyone – but for many who live with autoimmune diseases, those changes have been more significant and far-reaching.
Fighting Diseases

A Revolutionary Way to Study the Immune System

BRI is home to a Center for Systems Immunology that is helping us investigate the immune system’s deepest mysteries and the riddles of COVID-19.
Fighting Diseases

BRI Races to Understand COVID-19

BRI researchers are investigating some of COVID-19’s biggest questions and pursuing answers that could stop it in its tracks.
Fighting Diseases

Is Hydroxychloroquine Safe for Autoimmune Diseases?

COVID-19 has put a therapy called hydroxychloroquine in the spotlight — and, at the same time, shrouded it in confusion.

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