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2nd International Congress on Immune Mediated Diseases

 
  March 15, 2007  
     
 
University of Pittsburgh and GTCbio, Moscow, Russia
September 10-15, 2007


Topics for IMD Congress 2007


I. Allergy and Hypersensitivity: New treatments
II. Autoimmune diseases: Where do we stand?
III. Tumor Immunity at the crossroads
IV. Transplantation Immunology
V. Immune tolerance: Present and future
VI. Immunodeficiency: Any news?
VII. Infectious Immunology: Back to the future
VIII. Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
IX. Immunodiagnostics and Immunomonitoring
X. Mechanisms of immune-associated diseases
XI. Vaccines: Prevention or treatment?
XII. Therapeutic Immunomodulators
XIII. Immunology in the children and the elderly
XIV. Psychoneuroimmunological diseases
XV. Immunomics and Immunomodeling
XVI. New directions in immunotherapy
XVII. Who is who in Immunology?
XVIII. Should immune-mediated diseases be considered complex?
XIX. Are we ready for emerging viruses?
XX. Do we need biomarkers for immune-mediated diseases?
XXI. Diabetes: Prevention or Cure?
XXII. Immunological education: when should we start?


Visit http://www.imdcongress.org/index for more information.

 
 
Organized by: University of Pittsburgh and GTCbio
Invited Speakers: Razzaque Ahmed, M.D.
Center for Blistering Diseases
Boston, MA, USA

Gheona Alterescu
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel

Ron N. Apte, Ph.D.
Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University
Beer Sheba, Israel

Robert Balderas
Vice President, Research & Development, BD Biosciences
San Diego, CA

Alan G. Baxter, Ph.D., M.B., B.S.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Comparative Genomics Centre,James Cook Univers
New South Wales, Victoria, Australia

Sergei Belenky, M.D., Ph.D.
Health Services of Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, PA

Xuetao Cao
Second Military Medical University
Shanghai, China

Timothy Cox
Professor of Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Maurizio Cutolo, M.D.
Research Laboratory & Division of Rheumatology, Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Genova
Genova, Italy

Sophie Dessureault, M.D.
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Pierre Eftekhari
Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology
France

Debby Elstein
Research Director, Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Israel

Amos Etzioni, M.D.
Childrens Hospital of Haifa, University of Haifa
Israel

Olivera J. Finn, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Tom Fleisher
NIH
Frederick, MD

Federico Garrido
Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves
Granada, Spain

Larisa J. Geskin, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Eliser Gorelik, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Steve Holland, M.D.
NIAID, NIH
Frederick, MD

Stefan Karlsson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Medicine, Lund Strategic Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy
Sweden

Thomas W. Klein, Ph.D.
Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Univ of South Florida College of Medicine
Tampa, FL

Stephen D. Miller, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Interdepartmental Immunobiology Center, Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Chandra Mohan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine - Rheumatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

John C. Morris, M.D.
NCI, NIH
Frederick, MD

Sylviane Muller
Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology
France

Gideon Nesher, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Hebrew University
Israel

Natalija Novak
Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department of Dermatology, University of Bonn
Germany

Joost J. Oppenheim, M.D.
Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, NCI-Frederick, NIH
Frederick, MD

Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD

Jeana Rodica Radu
Romania


Antal Rot
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Vienna, Austria

Tomas Sayers
Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, NCI, NIH
Frederick, MD

Barbara Seliger
Institute of Medical Immunology, Martin Luther University
Halle, Germany

Galina V. Shurin, Ph.D.
Clinical Immunopathology, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Michael R. Shurin, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Alexander Sigalov, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Boston, MA

E. Richard Stiehm, M.D.
Professor, Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Kathy Sullivan
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Yuri Sykulev, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA

Yasmin Thanavala, Ph.D.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY

Theoharis C. Theoharides, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, Tufts University, School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Simon Watkins, Ph.D.
Professor, Cell Biology, Physiology & Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

Angus W. Thompson
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Joseph A. Trapani
Deputy Director, Research, Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Georgio Trinchieri
Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, PA

Anna Tylki-Szymanska, M.D.
Professor, Paediatrics , The Children’s Memorial Health Institute
Warsaw, Poland

Stephan von Dahl
St. Franziskus-Hospital
Germany

Matthias von Herrath, M.D.
Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
La Jolla, CA

Elena Voronov, M.D., Ph.D.
Ben-Gurion University
Beer-Sheva, Israel

Hans D. Ochs, M.D.
Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA

Adriana Zeevi, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology, Surgery and Co-Director , Tissue Typing Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh M
Pittsburgh, PA

Ari Zimran, M.D.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel

Arthur A. Hurwitz, Ph.D.
NIH
Frederick, MD

Gurkamal S. Chatta, M.D.
Principal Investigator, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Claude Kasten-Sportès, M.D.
Investigator, NHLBI, NIH
Frederick, MD

Xi Yang, M.D.
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

 
Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2007
 
Registration: 20% discount until July 10, 2007
10% discount until August 10, 2007

Register 2, the 3rd goes free.

To register visit www.gtcbio.com or call 626-256-6505.

E-mail: raniah@gtcbio.com
 
   
 
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