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In this article we shall focus on talks given by Prof. Abul Abbas, which focused on regulatory cells, role of T cells in autoimmunity and inflammation, as well as therapeutic strategies against autoimmune diseases.

“Young immunologists should remember that at least half of written in immunological textbooks is probably wrong; we just do not know which half”..The 2nd day of the IUIS-IIS-FIMSA Immuno-Jaipur workshop was predominantly focused on T and B cell immunology.

IUIS-IIS-FIMSA-Immuno-Jaipur Basic and Advanced Translation Immunology Course brought together experts in the field of immunology from across the globe to interact and discuss with the young researchers and clinicians.The opening session was addressed by Dr. Narinder Mehra...

Last month, the official International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) conference that took place in Beijing, China. ICI 2019 was opened by 3 wonderful talks by Nobel Laureates Peter Doherty, Jules Hoffman and Tasuku Honjo. Peter Doherty gave a brilliant history of Immunology...

Humoral immunity is one of the most studied aspects of anti-HIV immunity. This year IDA Symposium faculty members gave talks on various aspects of anti-HIV humoral immunity. Richard Koup, began his talk highlighting why we currently don’t have an HIV vaccine.

We had two talks on Malaria research, one that focuses on understanding immune responses associated with repeated malaria infections, and the other on malaria vaccinology titled “Vaccine-Induced Antibody-Mediated Immunity Against Malaria”...

There are 4000 known M.tb antigens, current strategies exploring potential epitopes to target use IFN-Y ELISA to determine cellular responses to people infected (versus uninfected) to see if they elicit a good response to M.tb antigens...

Thumbi N’dungu from African Health Research Institute (AHRI) was one of the faculty members, who presented on “Possible barriers and opportunities for HIV cure in patients who initiate treatment during acute HIV infection.” His presentation...

We highlight Dr Yaw Bediako’s (faculty) presentation on “Performing immunological studies in human cohorts - Systems approaches to studying immunity to malaria”.

Dr Elisa Nemes from SATVI presented on the current status of TB vaccinology, where she primarily focused immunological aspects of tested vaccine strategies. Immunoprofiling of TB-vaccine induced immunity, still primarily focuses on...