The  Translational Research Centre for Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases (CAAD) is an interdepartmental centre, established by the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO) in 2016, which collects and expands the activities developed within the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Autoimmune Diseases (IRCAD) , active since 2002. In 2018, the CAAD was recognized as a public Research Infrastructure (IR) by the Piedmont Region; it is located at the “Ipazia” Applied Research Centre in Novara.