Most people don't realize that the immune system is really an organ, or part of an organ system...
and that organ system is really the blood system.
It's both integrated into every organ system,
and plays an important role for protecting each organ system.
And, as such, it has vast impacts across every aspect of disease.
My role is to help lead the team that is working on the immune system.
And to coordinate with the other members of the team --
who are working on molecular biology, and computational biology --
to focus those on how we can understand the immune system better.
Traditionally, it's been difficult
to move basic discoveries that occur in the lab to therapeutics.
Now it's become more fluid.
And I think he immune system is being utilized as a therapy now --
more than it ever has before.
And so, using every possible way that we can think of
to measure immune system, really, is our goal
in an effort to try and understand that.
And bridge this gap, really, that kind of exists
a little bit between industry and academia.
