Mentoring Programs



The US Immunodeficiency Network manages mentoring programs that provide invaluable education to the next generation of PI investigators. The intent of these mentoring programs is to provide intensive training that will help recruit physician-scientists to a career in PI, to disseminate information, and to encourage collaborative research in the field of PI. Future research achievements in the PI are dependent on the entry of new physician-scientists into this field.

Mentoring Programs


Visiting Immunology Scholars Program (VISP)

VISP is a short-term training program that allows medical students, residents, and fellows to spend one to two weeks at a medical center with a PI research program. Please visit the Visiting Immunology Scholars page for more information on this educational program.

IDF & USIDNET LeBien Visiting Professor Program

This program encourages teaching hospitals to request a leading clinical immunologist to visit and provide educational lectures. Please visit the LeBien Visiting Professor Program page for more information.

Travel Grants

The USIDNET provides travel grants to highly qualified junior faculty or committed senior fellows to attend focused PI meetings. See the Travel Grants page for more information.

Publication Grants

USIDNET has been fortunate to partner with industry to offer seed grants to support research using the USIDNET Registry intended for publication. Shire (previously Baxter then Baxalta) provided funds that supported 6 different projects using Registry data in 2015 and 2016. ADMA Biologics has provided support for an additional project in 2017. The opportunity to apply for these grants is possible when industry support is available. Check our Publication Grants page for active opportunities.

Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) Summer School in Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases

In collaboration with CIS, the USIDNET helps host a summer school program that provides concentrated PI training. For application information, see the CIS Summer School Program page.


  • Principal Investigator:
    Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD,PhD
    Mount Sinai Medical Center
    New York, NY

    Co-Principal Investigator:
    Luigi Notarangelo, MD
    Harvard Medical School
    Children's Hospital
    Boston, MA

    Co-Principal Investigator:
    Jennifer M. Puck, MD
    University of California, San Francisco
    San Francisco, CA

    Co-Principal Investigator:
    Kathleen Sullivan, MD, PhD
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, PA

    Co-Principal Investigator:
    Ramsay Fuleihan, MD
    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    Chicago, IL

    Project Scientist:
    Frosso Voulgaropoulou, PhD
    AMIB/DAIT/NIAID/NIH/DHHS
    E-mail: fvoulgaropoulou@niaid.nih.gov
    Phone: 240-627-3205
    Rockville, MD

    Administration:
    Tara Caulder
    Program Director
    Towson, MD

    Marla Goldsmith
    Registry Manager
    Towson, MD

    Julie Magnusson
    Research Coordinator
    Towson, MD