Immune Deficiency Foundation Awarded 5 Year NIH Grant for USIDNET

TOWSON, Md., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the grant "Resources to Assist Investigations in Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases" from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This grant will allow IDF to continue to advance the detection, understanding, diagnosis and treatment of primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDD) through their program, the United States Immunodeficiency Network (USIDNET).

"We are pleased to receive this grant that will allow us to continue the important work of USIDNET," said IDF president and founder Marcia Boyle. "IDF has been administering patient registries for primary immunodeficiencies supported by the NIH since 1992 and we are excited about the potential of the new patient-consented registries to dramatically improve the treatment of patients."

She is joined with the Co-Investigators Dr. Luigi Notarangelo, Children's Hospital Boston, Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania and Dr. Jennifer Puck from the University of California, San Francisco.

About The Immune Deficiency Foundation

To learn more about USIDNET, visit www.usidnet.org

CONTACT: Jackie Sievers of The Immune Deficiency Foundation,
+1-443-632-2556

Web site: http://www.primaryimmune.org/