It carries out its activities in collaboration with institutional and corporate partners and currently has more than 1,000 members. The research will largely be performed in the new Altman CTRI building, slated to open in 2016. âWe are thrilled to hear the news that the NIH has awarded a five-year grant to the CTRI,â said Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD, president and Chief Scientific Officer of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
NKDA stands for No Known Drug Allergies. Suggest new definition. This definition appears somewhat frequently and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories: 1  Science, medicine, engineering, etc.
Natural killer cells, or NK cells, are a part of the innate immune system which does not directly attack invading microbes. Instead, NK cells destroy compromised host cells, such as tumor cells or virus-infected cells. It recognises such cells by a condition known as missing self.hese are immune cells that engulf, i.e. phagocytose, pathogens or particles. To engulf a particle or pathogen, a phagocyte extends portions of its plasma membrane, wrapping the membrane around the particle until it is enveloped (i.e. the particle is now inside the cell).