9th Joint Meeting of the ICS/ISICR
Cytokines in Infectious Diseases, Autoimmune Disorders, and Cancer
The 9th Joint Meeting of the International Cytokine Society (ICS) and the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) was held in Florence, Italy.
The overall theme for this Conference was “Cytokines and Interferons: from the bench to the bedside”.
We hosted ~600 international and local participants at this Joint Meeting in Florence. An outstanding international schedule consisting of Plenary Sessions, Symposia, Workshops, and Poster Sessions were arranged to bring together leading research workers in cytokine biology, cancer, immunology, virology and infectious diseases in a forum that emphasized the intersection of these expanding fields.
Date & Location
October 9th-12th, 2011
Florence, Italy
Executive Committee
- Santo Landolfo – Chairman
(Turin, Italy) - Flippo Belardelli
(Rome, Italy) - Ferdinando Dianzani
(Rome, Italy) - Enrico Maggi
(Florence, Italy)
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Young Investigators to Watch in 2011
Gijs Versteeg, Ph.D.
Dr. Gijs Versteeg has identified and characterized small-molecules that activate antiviral responses and could someday be used to fight viral infections. |
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Mehul Suthar, Ph.D.
Dr. Mehul Suthar is studying how people respond to West Nile Virus infection. |
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Yueh-Ming Loo (Ming Loo), Ph.D.
Dr. Ming Loo is studying a possible therapeutic target for the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection. |
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Ole Hammming, Ph.D.
Dr. Ole Hamming is determining how the protein, Interleukin 21, interacts with its receptor. This protein plays an important role in immune system maturation and function. |
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Volker Fensterl, Ph.D.
Dr. Volker Fensterl is investigating a family of proteins that are involved in the host defense against viral infection and how these proteins may function in an organ specific manner. |