Innate Immunity is a highly ranked, peer-reviewed open access journal and is the official journal of the International Endotoxin & Innate Immunity Society (IEIIS).

The aim of the journal is to provide a single, interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of new information on innate immunity in humans, animals, and plants.

Thus, the journal welcomes manuscripts from researchers actively working on all aspects of innate immune responses, including humoral, cellular, and clinical topics. The journal specifically welcomes submissions focusing on the interaction of cells with endotoxin- and exotoxin-related ligands from Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, viruses and plants, assessing the responses by multi-omics approaches such as, but not exclusively, RNASeq, lipidomic and metabolomic responses. It also accepts manuscripts describing new immunologically active bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic, and plant components, their receptors, signalling pathways, and induced mediators, as long as they describe a clear link between the identified and described component and the innate immune response.

Furthermore, Innate Immunity encourages submissions that take advantage of a wide array of model systems, including but not limited to humans, rodents, insects, plants and beyond, to probe the underlying principles involved. However, Innate Immunity is not accepting data that were generated in cell lines only. It has become increasing clear that such data vary widely between the same cell line used in different labs, and that the data are often impacted by the transformation of the cells used to generate the cell line. Thus, data generated in cell lines will only be accepted as part of a manuscript that assesses their biological relevance by reproducing the data in primary test systems, such as primary cells, organ cultures or indeed in vivo systems.

The journal includes Original Research articles, Research Notes, Reviews and Mini-reviews. In addition, Innate Immunity has introduced a new article type ‘Technical Note’ which gives authors the opportunity to describe novel methods, reagents, software, codes or databases, techniques, or significant improvements to established protocols. More information can be found in the manuscript submission guidelines under Article Types.

Editor-in-Chief
Otto Holst
Research Center Borstel, Germany
Assistant Editor
Patricia M. Sanchez Carballo
Research Center Borstel, Germany
Reviews Editor
Alan S. Cross
University of Maryland, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
Sven Brandau
University Hospital Essen, Germany
Albrecht Bufe
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Jean-Marc Cavaillon
Institut Pasteur, France
Dipshikha Chakravortty
Indian Institute of Science, India
Pedro Esteves
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Eugen Faist
Ludwig Maximillian University, Germany
Koichi Fukase
Osaka University, Japan
Andrew Gewirtz
Georgia State University, USA
Amy Hise
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Johannes Hübner
Klinikum der Universität München
Simon Jackson
University of Plymouth, UK
Roman Jerala
Kemijski Institut - KI, Slovenia
Carsten Kirschning
University Hospital Essen, Germany
Paul Kosma
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Martin Krönke
Cologne University, Germany
Coen Kuijl
VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Shoichi Kusumoto
Osaka, Japan
Simon MacKenzie
University of Stirling, UK
Andrei Medvedev
UConn Health Center, USA
Kensuke Miyake
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Antonio Molinaro
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Sven Müller-Loennies
Research Center Borstel, Germany
Robert S Munford
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA
Mari-Anne Newman
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nades Palaniyar
Toronto, Canada
Francesco Peri
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dana Philpott
Toronto, Canada
Gerald B Pier
Boston, USA
Pirkko Pussinen
Helsinki, Finland
Mikael Skurnik
Helsinki, Finland
M Stephen Trent
Austin, USA
Klaus Überla
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany
Stefanie Vogel
Bethesda, USA
Mamoru Watanabe
Tokyo, Japan
Dirk Werling
The Royal Veterinary College, UK
Chris Whitfield
Guelph, Canada
Takashi Yokochi
Aichi, Japan
Holm Zerbe
München, Germany