The major aims of the Signature Interdisciplinary Program in Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Disease are to:

• Enhance research capacity in AIID by:
  • targeted recruitment of new faculty and endowed chairs
  • creation of core facilities
  • competitive synergy seed funding
  • to facilitate intramural and extramural collaborations, and
  • develop focus research groups for targeted funding
    
    
• Organized think-tank sessions and a 5-year "road-map" for implementation
  
  
• Develop a community of scholars facilitated by social synergy events, journal clubs, lecture series and research symposia and
  
  
• Promote horizontal (interdisciplinary) and vertical (translational) integration of research and researchers
  
  
• Enhance the research productivity of USF Health and to provide a productive and relevant research experience for all doctoral and medical students, and postgraduate fellows.