The Human Immunome Project is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to decoding and modeling the immune system. Together with our network of partners, we are pioneering the next frontier in health and medicine.
Our Vision
We envision a world where improved health and wellness are driven by the science of a person’s immune system.
Our Mission
To maximize the potential of advanced immunological data to transform health outcomes for everyone, everywhere. To achieve our mission, we are generating the world’s largest and most diverse immunological dataset and building publicly available AI models of the immune system.
Values
Respect and Integrity: We are guided by respect and lead with integrity in our relationships with our partners, collaborators, the communities we operate in, and the people we serve worldwide. We are committed to building equal partnerships, cultivating a culture of shared learning, and adhering to the highest local and global ethical standards.
We respect the academic and intellectual freedom of HIP investigators and associated institutions, their ownership of the data they produce, their intellectual property (IP) rights, and their freedom to publish. As a global collaborative effort, HIP will comply with all existing institutional IP policies.
As an organization building the world’s largest immunological dataset, we consider participants’ confidentiality of the utmost importance. We appreciate our responsibility and have designed our operations and clinical protocols to ensure informed consent, protect privacy, and secure and anonymize our data and systems in alignment with the highest regulatory, patient privacy, and ethical standards.
HIP nurtures a transparent environment with our partners, donors, and study participants, as well as in our internal culture. We believe that honesty and openness across our relationships, communications, and operations breeds accountability and respect, and strengthens outcomes, bringing us closer to our ultimate goal of improving health for all.
Health Equity: As a scientific initiative seeking to improve health for all, we recognize the continued inequities in global health and science and the discrimination that perpetuates these inequities across health systems.
We’ve designed a scientific plan that prioritizes inclusion of the maximal number of populations and are committed to supporting sustainable entrepreneurial environments to help drive economic growth, job opportunities, and medical innovation. We firmly believe that diversity makes both our science and our organization stronger.
We are committed to generating a dataset representative of the true breadth of humanity and immune responses. Our scientific plan prioritizes inclusion of participants of all ages, ethnicities, sexes, and socioeconomic statuses. Our commitment to establish 75% of study sites in low- and middle-income countries is designed to generate data and models that mirror humanity’s diversity and deliver breakthroughs that advance health equity.
We are dedicated to equitable access to and benefit from HIP-generated data and models. We are committed to advancing local biomedical research and development, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In partnership with our network of research sites, the communities we operate in, and local biomedical leaders, we will support the development of infrastructure, training of scientists and clinicians, and provision of advanced technologies to ensure that the insights produced are translated into local economic growth and real-world health benefits for all, regardless of geographic location, background, or socioeconomic status.
Scientific Rigor: We lead with science and facts and employ standard and innovative scientific methods to ensure unbiased, well-controlled, and generalizable conclusions.
We recognize that our mission is inherently collaborative and requires global participation and buy-in. We seek to foster an ongoing feedback loop with inputs from scientists, participants, staff, and communities. We prioritize trust and collaboration in our relationships with our scientific partners and the communities we seek to serve, celebrate the unique contribution of all stakeholders, and encourage cooperation across sectors, disciplines, and in our internal operations.
We are committed to ensuring that HIP-generated data and models are representative of all of humanity and available to all stakeholders, both within and outside the consortium. HIP will employ a federated data infrastructure to enhance security and ensure that ownership of data will reside with the local investigators who produced them.
HIP-generated data and models will produce new insights to improve health with broad application. Our collaborative global network will serve to not only ensure scientific uniformity but also to share lessons learned, engage in bidirectional education and training, and nurture a global scientific community dedicated to increasing immunological capacity and innovation.