Unidade de Genética e Desenvolvimento da Tolerância Natural da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

This Unit was created in 1999 to begin operation in 2000. The research programme of the Unit, involving some 15 scientists at the IGC and several collaborations in other institutions, concerns immunology, virology, and genetics of autoimmune diseases in mouse and man. The Unit has launched collaboration programmes with several Portuguese institutions (Associação de Protecção ao Diabético de Portugal, Associação de Doentes com Lupus, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra and Núcleo de Investigação at the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, Ponta Delgada, Azores).