Putting Tolerance to the Test

摘要

A disparate group of researchers banded together in 1999 to explore novel therapies in immunology. Five years later, the Immune Tolerance Network has "turned the corner" on management problems, leaders say, and clinical results are starting to appear. It was touch and go when immunologist Jeffrey Bluestone finally handed off his precious cargo 5 years ago: an 800-page tome he hoped would transform medicine. An overnight courier drove up to his Chicago doorstep at 2 a.m. and collected the massive application, to airlift it to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, before the day's end.