iReceptor Plus Consortium Wants to Improve Immunological Data Sharing

Jan 30, 2019

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CHICAGO (GenomeWeb) – The nascent iReceptor Plus Consortium, funded by €8.4 million (about $9.6 million) in awards from the European Union and the Canadian government, has the broad mandate of promoting integration and sharing of human immunological data. The hope is that the four-year effort will yield better understanding of immune responses and lead to new therapeutic targets for drug developers and clinicians.

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