Immunosuppression International Conference Immunotherapy
   

PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

(I) Conference Main Topics

  1. Alternative Targets for Immunointervention
  2. Inflammatory Mechanisms
  3. Stem Cell Therapy
  4. New Agents
  5. Clinical Immunotherapy in Organ Transplantation, Autoimmunity and Inflammation
  6. Indices of Transplantation Tolerance
  7. Clinically Applicable Strategies to Induce Transplantation Tolerance
  8. Targeting Memory T/B Cells

(Ii) Invited Plenary Lectures

  1. Alternative Targets for Immunointervention
    • TLRS
    • Complement as a Therapeutic Target in Renal Transplantation
    • B Cells
    • T Cell Activation
    • Coagulation
    • Ho-1/Biliverdin
    • HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

  2. Inflammatory Mechanisms
    • Psoriasis
    • MS
    • SLE- Anti-CD20
    • Corticosteroid Receptor Targeting

  3. Stem Cell Therapy
    • HSCT
    • Neural Stem Cells: Moving Towards Therapy
    • Cardiac Myocytes
    • Bone Cartilage
    • Harnessing Immunological Tolerance in the Pursuit of Stem Cell Therapies

  4. New Agents


  5. Clinical Immunotherapy in Organ Transplantation, Autoimmunity and Inflammation


  6. Indices of Transplantation Tolerance
    • Gene Expression
    • Cellular Assays
    • License to Heal: Bi-Directional Interaction of Antigen Specific Regulatory T-Cells and Tolerogenic APC
    • International/European Tolerance Network (ITN/EU) Overview
    • Transplantation Tolerance in the Clinic: The Multiple Barriers to Overcome
    • Experimental and Clinical Liver Transplantation: Insights into Transplantation Tolerance

  7. Clinically Applicable Strategies To Induce Transplantation Tolerance
    • Anti-CD3
    • Pro-Apoptic Cytokine Fusion Proteins
    • Regulatory Cell Treatment
    • Chimerism/ Thymo Kidney
    • Mechanisms of Tolerance

  8. Targeting Memory T/B Cells
    • The Challenges of Memory
    • Memory T-Cells
    • Factor VIII-Specific Memory B Cells: New Targets for Interference with Neutralizing Anti-Factor VIII Antibody Reponses in Hemophilia A
    • Role of S1P Receptors in the Trafficking of Naive and Memory T-Cells

  9. Pharmacological Immunosuppression in the 21st Century (Special Session)
    • Drugs and Tolerance - compatible or not?
    • What's in the Pipeline?

(Iii) Oral and Poster Presentations of Submitted Papers

(Iv) Satellite Symposia

(V) Mini Symposia

  1. Combinatorial Therapeutic Approaches in Recent-Onset Type 1 Diabetes and Relapsing MS

 

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