La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology Finding Cited as Key 2007 Research Advance by Nature Medicine

SAN DIEGO - (January 24, 2008) A finding by La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) researchers that could one day lead to new avenues for treating inflammatory bowel diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases has been cited by Nature Medicine as one of the key biomedical research advances of 2007. Nature Medicine is one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals for biomedical research and is respected internationally for the quality of its scientific papers.