Immunologic Research: Publishing knowledge of the future today!

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It has been more than a century (1909–2012) since Paul Ehrlich founded Die Zeitschrift fuer Immunitaetsforschung und Experimentelle Therapie, the first journal devoted expressly to research in immunology. During the 100 years since, immunology has undergone a metamorphosis from a medical curiosity associated with vaccination to preeminence as a real science. It serves as a common thread that intersects essentially all branches of basic and clinical biomedical science. With the exponential increase in published articles in an expanding array of immunology journals, we recognized the need to provide a synthesis and interpretation of the multiple new research findings by the bench level investigators who discovered them. We anticipated that the reader would gain an overview that is considerably more than a “thumbnail sketch” of topics at the frontier of immunologic research. The premier programs of investigative immunology in both North America and abroad are being featured in institutional volumes of this journal. …