We need volunteers to improve our understanding of the human 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 at various times.

 

Contact

LOCATION

HSE910 505 Parnassus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94143HSE910

CONTACT

immunecensus@ucsf.edu

 

What’s in it for you?

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up to $250 and your unique immune profile

We’re offering volunteers $50 per visit and an item printed with your unique immune profile. All we need from you is a quick eligibility check and then one to five short blood draw appointments at either Columbia or the UCSF Parnassus campus.

Our Team

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 Initiative

This work is made possible by a generous contribution from the Chan-Zuckerburg Initiative. 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.

 
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This work is also supported as a UCSF Bakar ImmunoX CoProject. Learn more about how ImmunoX pipelines can streamline your research at UCSF here.

 

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.

We’re currently enrolling at both Columbia and UCSF Parnassus, so let us know which site should contact you.