Worldwide Immunology Resources

This page provided by Eric Martz of the Dept Microbiology of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
This page omits local resources for which see Immunology at UMass, Amherst!
Last maintained October 2003.

SOCIETIES

  • American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
  • American Society for Microbiology
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). AAI is a member of FASEB. Here is a searchable directory of over 40,000 biological scientists.

    JOURNALS

  • Search the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at PubMed
  • Trends in Immunology (formerly Immunology Today). Also available via Science Direct.
  • Current Opinion in Immunology (Journal)
  • Immunity, Science, Nature, the journals.
  • Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Journal of Immunology, the official publication of the American Association of Immunologists.
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Free Medical Journals

    ORGANIZATIONS

  • Jackson Labs (inbred mice)
  • NIH: the National Institutes of Health
  • The second-most important US source of funding for basic biological and immunological research is the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • ATCC (American Type Culture Collection): microbes, leukocyte cell lines, monoclonal antibody-producing hybridomas.

    GENERAL RESOURCES

  • Nobel Prizes: prizes for Immunology are in the category Physiology or Medicine.
  • Vote Smart! How did your legislators vote on health care reform? On NIH funding?