In April 1995 the IUIS signed an agreement for the University of Maryland's Albin O. Kuhn Library to act as a repository of the Union's archives. The Library also holds the archives of several large professional organizations with related interests: The American Association of Immunologists, the American Type Culture Collection, the American Society for Cell Biology, the Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. 

The records of the IUIS currently occupy about 16 linear feet in some 39 boxes. They currently cover the period 1966 - 2000 and document the origins of the Union, its growth in membership and committees and the development of the International Congresses of Immunology. These records have been organized into five series: Officers and Council, Membership, Meetings, Committees, and Affiliated Organizations. 

The Library provides safekeeping for the files, has organized the files, and completed a "finders guide" (directory) which is now available on the internet at http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/speccoll/iuis/iuistitle.php3

Records of IUIS covering the period 2001 to 2007 are filed electronically at the Vienna Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research.
Information: iuis-central-office@medacad.org

 

Previous International Congresses of Immunology (1971-2004)

First:	Washington, DC (USA) August 1-6, 1971  Host Society: American Association of Immunologists Scientific Registrants: 3400 Publication: Progress in Immunology I, Academic Press NY, B. Amos (Ed) 1554pp. Commemorative plaques were awarded to J.R. Marrack, M. Heidelberger, F. Haurowitz, P. Grabar and F.M. Burnet
Second:	Brighton (UK) July 21-25, 1974 Host Society: British Society for Immunology Scientific Registrants: 4500 Publication: Progress in Immunology II, North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam: L. Brent, J. Holborow (Eds) 2023pp.
Third:	Sydney (Australia) July 3-8, 1977 Host Society: Australian Society for Immunology Scientific Registrants: 1600 Publication: Progress in Immunology III, Aust. Acad. Sci. (dist. by N. Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam), T.E. Mandel (Ed) 850pp.
Fourth:	Paris (France) July 21-26, 1980 Host Society: French Society of Immunology Scientific Registrants: 5000 Publication: Progress in Immunology IV ("Immunology 80") Academic Press, Inc. London, M. Fougereau and J. Dausset (Eds) 1279pp.
Fifth:	Kyoto (Japan) August 21-27, 1983 Host Society: Japanese Society for Immunology Scientific Registrants: 3632 Publication: Progress in Immunology V, Academic Press, Japan, Inc. Y. Yamamura and T. Tada (Eds) 1640pp.
Sixth:	Toronto (Canada) July 6-11, 1986 Host Society: Canadian Society for Immunology Scientific Registrants: 6142 Publication: Abstracts, National Research Council of Canada, Progress in Immunology VI. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, Florida, USA.  B. Cinader and R.G. Miller (Eds)
Seventh:	Berlin (Germany) July 30-August 4, 1989 Host Society: Society for Immunology (FRG) Scientific Registrants: 6523 Publication: Abstracts, Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Progress in Immunology VII, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Eighth:	Budapest (Hungary) August 23-30, 1992 Host Society: Hungarian Society for Immunology Scientific Registrants: 4652 Publication: Abstracts, Progress in Immunology VIII, Springer Verlag, Berlin
Ninth:	San Francisco (USA) July 23-29, 1995 Host Society: American Association of Immunologists Scientific Registrants: 7725 Publication: Immunology Highlights, Proceedings, Reports from the IXth International Congress of Immunology, The Immunologist 3, 168-281 (1995) J. Natvig and H. Cinader received awards for their distinguished service to IUIS
Tenth:	New Delhi (India) November 1-7, 1998 Host Society: Indian Immunology Society Scientific Registrants: 2385 Publications: Abstracts, The Immunologist, Supplement 1 (1998) 664pp. Proceedings, Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, Italy (1998), G.P. Talwar, I. Nath, N.K. Ganguly and K.V.S. Rao. (Eds), 2 volumes, 1536pp. Highlights and Reports, The Immunologist (1999). Selected papers, Immunology Letters, I. Pecht (Ed). T. Tada, P. Nieuwenhuis, M. Sela, G.J.V. Nossal, H. Metzger, F. Melchers, R. Zinkernagel, P.C. Doherty, N.A. Mitchison, I. Verma, A. S. Fauci and K. James received awards.
Eleventh:	Stockholm (Sweden) July 22-28, 2001 Host Society: Scandinavian Society for Immunology
Twelfth:	Montreal (Canada) July 18-23, 2004 Host Society: Canadian Society for Immunology
Thirteenth:	Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) August 21-25, 2007 Host Society: Brazilian Society of Immunology