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Alicia Truelove has been a registered nurse for 16 years. She’s also a mom of two boys. A few years ago, she started feeling unwell in ways no test could explain. Her labs came back normal. So did everything else. It took about two years, and a long process of ruling out other conditions, before she was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder.
Viva Mogi has cared for her mother, who has Alzheimer’s, for 10 years. The family first noticed changes in her memory on a trip to Japan, in her mother’s hometown. When they got home, she was diagnosed. Mogi lived in San Francisco, while her parents lived in Los Angeles.
There’s a moment Andrew Dale remembers with terrible clarity. He was at 140 pounds, down from 190. His hair was gone. He could barely get out of bed after months of chemotherapy. His six-year-old daughter, Zoe, came home from school.
For many Californians, “immunology” may sound like a highly specialized area of science. But its potential impact is deeply personal. Immunology is the field of medical science focused on understanding the immune system and its role in treating, curing and preventing disease. Immunotherapies harness the immune system to recognize and fight diseases, and these treatments are already being used for cancers including melanoma, lung cancer and certain leukemias and lymphomas.