Fighting Diseases

$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?
Fighting Diseases

COVID-19 Hybrid Immunity Study: 3 Key Findings

As an immunologist focused on skin-related autoimmune diseases, Peter Morawski, PhD, never thought he’d study viruses.
Fighting Diseases

What does it mean for COVID-19 to be endemic?

As the next chapter of COVID-19 unfolds, we’re hearing that the virus will likely become endemic (in the northern hemisphe
Fighting Diseases

Two Years in: How BRI Continues to Fight COVID-19

Learn about how BRI has helped fight COVID-19 and key questions we’re working to answer moving forward.
Living With A Disease

One Pandemic, Three Autoimmune Diseases and 100 Half Marathons

Gretchen’s goal of running 100 half marathons in 10 years started with doctors telling her what she couldn’t do and ended with her realizing how capable she was.
Living With A Disease

Research Fuels Change: One Family’s Motivation to Participate

Find out what inspired one family to participate in BRI's COVID-19 vaccine study for people with Down syndrome.
Fighting Diseases

Understanding Omicron: Key questions about spread, variants and where we go from here

We discussed key questions about this new variant with Uma Malhotra, MD, BRI researcher and infectious disease specialist.
Fighting Diseases

Inside the Sound Life Project: How BRI is Studying Health to Understand Disease

Learn about BRI's work to create a highly detailed portrait of the immune system.  
Fighting Diseases

Monoclonal Antibodies and COVID-19: Insight from an Infectious Disease Expert

Dr. Uma Malhotra explains monoclonal antibodies, how they work and who needs them.
News & Views

Why COVID-19 Makes It Harder to Predict This Year’s Flu Season

Dr. Uma Malhotra explains what to expect this flu season and how the pandemic may impact it.

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