title: New ideas in asthma and allergy research: creating a multidisciplinary graduate school.
abstract: The spring term of 2001 saw the start of a new, unique graduate research training program at the Centre for Allergy Research at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. The program was created to bridge the gaps between basic, clinical, social, and behavioral sciences and to establish a global approach to the study of asthma and allergy. A reflection, two years on, discusses the strategies that are key to this model's success and the challenges in introducing a multidisciplinary research program.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Allergy Research Nobels väg 15A, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. Bengt.bjorksten@Cfa.ki.se
authors.forename: Bengt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Björkstén
authors.forename: Göran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Graninger
authors.forename: Gunilla
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jacobsson Ekman
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma; D035843:Biomedical Research; D004500:Education, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity; D012942:Social Sciences / Q000193:education; D013548:Sweden