Be part of our large-scale research effort to improve our understanding of the immune system
The immune system is a critical barrier between us and disease. When it goes awry, we get a range of conditions from immunodeficiencies (where the body is incapable of fighting off invaders that a normal person wouldn’t even notice) to autoimmunity (where the body thinks that its own parts are a foreign invader). And in between is a spectrum of immune function that we don’t yet fully understand.
Our work aims to determine how much variation exists in normal immune systems, and importantly - how much variation exists in even a single person’s immune system.
Contact
LOCATION
505 Parnassus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94143
CONTACT
alyssa.ward@ucsf.edu
What’s in it for you?
$50 and a piece of truly personal art
We’re offering volunteers $50 and a piece of art using your own genetic data. All we need from you is a quick eligibility check and then a short blood draw appointment at the UCSF Parnassus campus.
Our Teams
The Ye Lab, UCSF
We are a genomics lab that uses experimental and computational approaches to understand natural variation in gene expression. We have pioneered the single-cell sequencing approaches used in this study. Click here to learn more about what we do!
The De Jager lab, Columbia University
The De Jager lab has expertise in large-scale collection of human blood and mapping genetic vatiation in gene expression in cell populations. For more about what they do, click here!
Orr Ashenberg, Broad Institute
Dr. Ashenberg is a computational biologist that focuses on developing systems to carry out cell profiling like the Human Tumor Atlas and this Immune Cell Census
The Sanders Lab, UCSF
Dr. Sanders leads the UCSF psychiatry Department Bioinformatics Core, developing and implementing cloud-based genomic and functional genomic analysis pipelines. Read more about their work here!
The Battle Lab, Johns Hopkins University
The Battle lab uses probabilistic models and machine learning to understand the genomic and transcriptomic changes underlying complex human diseases. Click here to learn more about their work!
The Chan-Zuckerburg Institute
This work is made possible by a generous contribution from the Chan-Zuckerburg Institute. They are also passionate about understanding normal variation in the human immune system as the basis for understanding and curing disease states. Click here for more on their mission.
We need volunteers!
We are looking for volunteers aged 18-55 that do not have cancer or a condition caused by or indicative of a dysfunctional immune system.
It this sounds like you, get started by messaging us today! We offer $50 per blood draw appointment (and we only need a small amount - like what would be used for a normal blood test). We’re also offering participants digital and/or hard copies of your own unique immune map.