It is now 60 years since Ian Mackay and Macfarlane Burnet published their seminal text “The
Autoimmune Diseases” in which they examined the full scope of human inflammatory …

Primarily intended as a textbook for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of
Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, this compact and well-organized text now in …

My research career has focused on complex experimental systems, principally virus-induced
infectious processes. I have always run my own experimental program and never had a …

Page 1 The Encyclopedia of Autoimmune Diseases DANA CASSELL NOEL ROSE. MD Page
2 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES Page 3 Page 4 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA …

The progress in basic immunology during the past 50–60 years has been associated with
the emergence of clinical immunology as a new discipline in the 1970s. It was defined as the …

The science of immunology emerged in the last of the 19th and the first of the 20th century.
Substantial progress in physics, chemistry and microbiology was essential for its …

It is becoming increasingly recognized that experimental animal models, while useful to
address monothematic biological questions, bear unpredictable relevance to human …

The International Congresses on Autoimmunity were organized almost 20 years ago to
reflect the multidisciplinary nature of autoimmunologists to gather in one place. Indeed, a …

While some people pore over the textbook and train through the classics of the field, many
scientists come to immunology when they discover it intersecting with their “first love” …

Historically, autoimmune-inflammatory disorders were subdivided into autoinflammatory vs.
autoimmune diseases. About a decade ago, an immunological continuum was proposed …