https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/yales-colton-center-awards-750k-to-seven-autoimmune-disease-research-projects/
Yale's Colton Center for Autoimmunity has awarded $750,000 to seven faculty-led projects advancing research into autoimmune and allergic diseases, with funding, mentorship, and commercialization support.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/lupus-flare-ups-strongly-linked-to-specific-bacterial-growth-in-gut/
NYU Langone researchers have linked lupus flare-ups to blooms of a specific gut bacterium, opening a potential path to probiotic and dietary treatments less toxic than current immunosuppressive therapies.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/tel-aviv-university-opens-israels-first-autoimmune-disease-research-center/
Tel Aviv University's Colton Center for Autoimmunity joins a four-university consortium dedicated to finding cures for over 100 autoimmune diseases through big data analytics, multidisciplinary research, and international collaboration.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/penn-medicine-launches-colton-center-for-autoimmunity-with-10-million-gift/
Penn Medicine's new Colton Center for Autoimmunity unites the university's immunology research and patient care programs, joining NYU and Yale in a shared effort to advance autoimmune disease diagnosis and treatment.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/50-million-gift-to-transform-penns-colton-center-for-autoimmunity-into-a-world-class-research-hub/
A $50 million gift from Stewart and Judy Colton will elevate Penn Medicine's Colton Center for Autoimmunity into a global leader in autoimmune research, treatment, and cross-institutional collaboration.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/yales-colton-center-for-autoimmunity-awards-2022-grants-to-six-innovative-research-projects/
Yale's Colton Center for Autoimmunity has awarded 2022 grants to six projects spanning lupus, multiple sclerosis, pediatric OCD, and systemic sclerosis — all targeting new diagnostics, therapies, or disease mechanisms.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/nyu-langone-joins-58m-nih-partnership-to-accelerate-autoimmune-disease-research/
NYU Langone's Colton-backed Division of Rheumatology is taking a leading role in the NIH's $58 million AMP AIM program, driving research into lupus, psoriatic disease, Sjögren's disease, and the microbiome.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/yale-researchers-use-skin-as-a-window-into-autoimmune-disease-and-a-path-to-better-treatments/
Yale Medicine Magazine profiles Colton-funded researchers using skin as a diagnostic and therapeutic entry point into autoimmune disease — from scleroderma antibody therapy to cancer-triggered bullous pemphigoid.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/how-lupus-antibodies-sabotage-a-key-enzyme-and-what-it-means-for-treating-kidney-disease/
Colton-supported NYU researchers have found that autoantibodies can physically inactivate a key enzyme in over half of lupus nephritis patients — a non-genetic mechanism that could serve as a future biomarker and therapeutic target.
https://www.coltonconsortium.org/news/yale-launches-colton-center-for-autoimmunity-to-fast-track-research-across-disciplines/
Yale immunologist Dr. Joseph Craft outlines the mission of the newly launched Colton Center for Autoimmunity — a cross-disciplinary initiative to translate autoimmune research into real-world diagnostics and treatments.