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🔬🤝👥 Advancing Research, Education & Awareness in Autoimmune Disease
Funding scientific investigations, sharing resources, and fostering community to improve diagnosis, treatment & understanding.
🌍 Learn more: autoimmuneinstitute.org
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📰 In my latest article for the @autoimmunegai.bsky.social, I explain what vitiligo is, how it works, and why awareness matters.

🩺 Grateful to Dr. Cameron Coury and Dr. Hannah Kopelman for sharing their time and expertise!

Give this a read ➡️ www.autoimmuneinstitute.org/articles/vit...
Vitiligo: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
Discover what causes vitiligo, its types, symptoms, and treatment options. Learn how this autoimmune disease impacts skin health and emotional well-being.
www.autoimmuneinstitute.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our new series explores what we know (and don’t) about how autoimmune disease intersects with fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum health.

Pregnancy can reshape the immune system in profound ways, sometimes easing symptoms and sometimes triggering flares:
www.autoimmuneinstitute.org/articles/pre...
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Long COVID isn’t new. It fits a decades-old pattern of post-viral illness.

ME/CFS, Gulf War Illness, endometriosis, fibromyalgia—different causes, same story:
Dismissed symptoms
Delayed diagnosis
Underfunded research
We can’t let long COVID be next.
www.autoimmuneinstitute.org/covid_timeli...
Long COVID Isn’t New—It Follows a Pattern of Post-Viral Illness
Post-viral conditions like ME/CFS, endometriosis, and fibromyalgia show what happens when illness is ignored. Will long COVID follow the same path?
www.autoimmuneinstitute.org
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice closure effectively abandons millions of people living with this emerging post-viral illness and raises serious concerns for long COVID patients, researchers, and advocates:
The Federal Long COVID Office Is Closing—Here’s What We Know
As the federal long COVID office prepares to close, key questions emerge about the future of research, clinical guidance, and visibility for post-viral illness.
www.autoimmuneinstitute.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We premiered this film during LEAD Day at @lji.org, but now you can watch it, too. See how investment in science is reshaping the landscape of autoimmune disease research!

📽️ Watch now: youtu.be/60Vg1ZVqkDA?...

#AutoimmuneResearch #FundingScience #LEADDay #FutureOfAutoimmuneDisease
The Decision Makers | Dr. Sam Myers x Global Autoimmune Institute
YouTube video by La Jolla Institute for Immunology
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March 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Happening tomorrow, Mar. 19 @ 12pm PT!

LJI's Dr. Sonia Sharma will share fascinating new research on how non-immune cells act as the unheralded "first responders" that set the stage for autoimmune reactions and inflammatory processes.

Register now: bit.ly/3FMZF14

#Immunology #Health #Medicine
March 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Come join the Inaugural LEAD day lectureship @lji.org, sponsored by the Global Autoimmune Institute
February 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM