Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason

BRI is an international leader in immune system and autoimmune disease research with a focus on translating laboratory discoveries to real life applications.

Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) is a non-profit biomedical research institute on First Hill in Seattle, WA. BRI is an international leader in immune system and autoimmune disease research translating discoveries to real life applications. BRI is one of the few research institutes in the world finding causes and cures to eliminate autoimmune diseases including Type 1 diabetes, arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, scleroderma and many others.

Autoimmune diseases strike one in 20 Americans. They occur when the body's immune system, designed to protect the body, attacks it instead. There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases. No tissue or organ is immune from autoimmune diseases.