Frontiers in Immunology has announced the launch of its latest section, Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disorders. The section enjoys the steadfast leadership of two renowned experts in the field, Prof. Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky (National Institutes of Health [NIH]) and Prof. Betty Diamond (Feinstein Institute for Medical Research).
Dr Diamond leads the Center for Autoimmune, Musculoskeletal and Hematopoietic Diseases at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research where she studies the autoimmune disease 'systemic lupus erythematosus', focusing on the role that DNA-reactive B cells play in the disease. Dr. Goldbach-Mansky in turn works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) where she leads the Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Studies (TADS): her work is translational and focuses on the role of inflammatory pathways on disease pathogenesis and on finding novel treatments for autoinflammatory diseases.
The new section aims to address key challenges facing the field, notably by providing a scholarly resource that can help practitioners bring novel autoimmune and autoinflammatory findings into clinical practice by moving clinical practice into the molecular diagnostic age.
The section focuses on five main areas: The role of adaptive and/or innate immune responses in autoimmunity/auto- inflammation; the role of genetic and/or epigenetic alterations in disease pathogenesis; the role of environmental exposure in triggering autoimmunity/autoinflammatory diseases; the role of metabolic dysregulation in immune and non-immune cells in autoimmunity/auto-inflammation; dysregulation of signaling pathways that contribute to autoimmunity/auto-inflammation; and novel strategies for the development of treatments for autoimmune/autoinflammatory diseases.
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