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Extended Early Bird Registration Deadline

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Participating in the leading international conference on immunology will give you valuable insights about the latest in research with more than 100 sessions, workshops and 2,000 posters covering today's immunology hot topics.

It will feature 200 main speakers from 40 countries who will present the most recent advances in basic immunology and clinical translation to over 4,000 participants. All details can be found in the scientific programme: https://iuis2019.org/programme

40% of Congress speakers are currently female and IUIS is prioritizing filling all new vacancies with female speakers.

Date: 29-23 October 2019
Location: Beijing, China
www.iuis2019.org

IUIS 2019 is organized by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and hosted by the Chinese Society for Immunology (CSI).

News

AAI President Submits Testimony Supporting International Scientific Collaborations and Exchange

AAI President JoAnne L. Flynn, Ph.D., submitted testimony to a Senate committee hearing on “Foreign Threats to Taxpayer-Funded Research: Oversight Opportunities and Policy Solutions.” While acknowledging concerns “about threats posed by foreign countries and foreign nationals to U.S. national security and U.S. intellectual property,” Dr. Flynn urged Congress “to understand fully the collaborative nature of science and the urgent need for international collaborations if the U.S. is to advance science, foster innovation, and remain the world’s leader in biomedical research.”

Inborn Errors of Immunity Committee (IEI)

The IUIS IEI Committee held a meeting at Rockefeller University, New York. Their goal of providing a critical review of the recent biomedical literature and identify key publications that have reported novel genes that, when mutated, underlie monogenic immune dysregulatory conditions such as recurrent, severe and often-fatal infections, autoinflammatory disorders, autoimmunity, allergic disease and even cancer. Read more about their activities.

OPTIMMUNIZE

19 - 21 February 2020
Wellcome Genome Campus, UK

The conference will explore and discuss various aspects of the non-specific effects of
vaccines, including their impact on neonates and infants, how generalisable and durable
these effects are, the implications for geriatric and veterinary medicine, and why non-specific effects should differ between sexes and across the lifespan.

Early Career Research Prize in Vaccinology R&D

Application open!

Deadline for application submission: 31^st August 2019

7 May 2019

Asthma kills as many people as malaria: asthma medicines must reach everyone

Professor Innes Asher

World Asthma Day is marked on 7 May, and internationally, medical professionals and researchers are taking the opportunity to draw attention to this too common chronic disease.

Every day about 1,150 people die – largely avoidably - due to asthma (malaria kills about 1,175 people per day). Yet with correct diagnosis and treatment, many deaths from asthma can be prevented.