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Building networks for immunodeficiency diseases and immunology training

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The RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology in Japan is reaching out regionally to the primary immunodeficiency disease community and internationally to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

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Figure 1: Organization of the PIDJ and PID Asia networks.

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  1. Peter D. Burrows is with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA. peterb@uab.edu,

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  2. Alain Fischer is with the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 768, Université Paris Descartes, Hopital Necker Enfants Malades, 75015 Paris, France.,

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P.D.B. is a scientific advisor for the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology; A.F. is a member of the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology International Advisory Council.

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Burrows, P., Fischer, A. Building networks for immunodeficiency diseases and immunology training. Nat Immunol 9, 1005–1007 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0908-1005

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