As a group, autoimmune diseases represent one of the most intractable families of conditions facing medical science. The complexities and genetic underpinnings of the human immune response result in a set of disease targets that are at once physiologically ubiquitous and highly individualized. Until recently, autoimmune disease patients were .....more

Drugs based on immune modulation - a class that includes cytokines, lymphocyte receptors, signaling enzymes, antibodies and transcription factors - have demonstrated the capability to effectively treat a host of diseases that had previously been considered to be intractable. These therapeutic immune modulation drugs.......more