Welcome to the Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection (CIII) at Georgia State University.  The Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection was established in January 2011 as the first University-level multidisciplinary research center at Georgia State University. The Center's research takes advantage of extraordinary, collective strength in the areas of inflammation, immunity and infection at Georgia State University.

The MISSION of this new center is to better understand the molecular basis of inflammatory diseases and further develop novel therapeutic strategies. Inflammation is one of the body's major defense mechanisms in response to infection or injury, but when it is uncontrolled, it causes inflammatory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, otitis media and cancer. 
 

Founding Director

Jian-Dong Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Inflammation and Immunity
Professor of Biology
Georgia State University