“The easy infectious disease problems have been solved,” explains Alexander Lucas, PhD, senior scientist and deputy director of medical research at CHORI. “Now we’re left with the more difficult ones, such as AIDS, parasitic infections and diseases caused by bacteria that live within the hosts’ cells. Developing vaccines against these will require significant, new scientific insight.”

CHORI’s Center for Immunobiology & Vaccine Development (CIVD) was specifically designed to encourage that innovation and novel inquiry into immune system response through collaborative, cross-disciplinary research. Within the interrelated areas of immunobiology, infectious diseases, pathogenesis, vaccine development and vaccine evaluation, CIVD investigators strive to push beyond the boundaries of current knowledge, creating novel vaccines, exploring how existing vaccines work, and elucidating the mysteries of individual pathogens in order to find ways to protect against them.

A worldwide leader in basic and translational research in immunobiology and infectious disease, CHORI seeks to map all the unknown territories of the body’s immune system, impacting millions of lives, both here and across the globe, one breakthrough at a time. Explore the links in the sidebar menu to discover all the CIVD brings to immunobiology and vaccine development research.