The mission of the Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease, and Immunity (CIIDI) is to coordinate efforts and facilitate interactions among members of the ETSU biomedical research community in order to advance education, research, and clinical applications in inflammation, immune, and infectious diseases.
The CIIDI serves as an integrated and synergistic environment for basic, applied,
and translational research that is focused on the development of new and novel approaches
to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases centering on inflammation,
immunity, and infectious diseases.
A major objective of the CIIDI is to create an intellectual and scholarly environment
that increases our competitiveness for extramural funding including investigator-initiated
grants, program projects, center grants, contracts, and training grants.
Building History
CIIDI Grand Opening
For the first time in its eight-year history, East Tennessee State University’s Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Immunity (CIIDI) has a physical presence to call its own.