Day 4 of Immuno-Jaipur included talks by Oliver Boyer and Hannes Stockinger. Prof. Olivier Boyer lecture highlighted the origin and perspectives of CAR-T cells for treatment of cancer patients. He briefed the design of chimeric antigen receptor construct which consist of the extracellular...
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Immuno-Jaipur Highlight : Day 4
Day 4 of the Immuno-Jaipur included talks from renowned Professors Shubhada Chiplunka, Sunil Arora, Hannes Stockinger, Abul Abbas and Oliver Boyer. In think article we shall highlights information relayed by Profs Chuplunka, Arora and Abbas. Prof. Shubhada Chiplunkar, ACTREC-Tata Memorial Centre, addressed the audience on the...
Immuno-Jaipur Highlight: Part 2 of Day 3
In addition to talks by Prof Abbas, Day 3 of Immuno-Jaipur included talks on autoimmunity and chronic inflammation. Prof. Bernhard Fleisher gave a talk on autoimmunity in the central nervous system where he discussed various autoimmune diseases such as Myasthenia Gravis, Encephalitis, Multiple sclerosis. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease...
Immuno-Jaipur Highlight of talks by Abul Abbas
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.
Immuno-Jaipur Highlight: Insights into innate and adaptive immunity
“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 Report
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...
IUIS Beijing ICI 2019
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...
IDA Highlight: What’s New in anti-HIV humoral immunity.
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.
IDA Highlight: Current state of malaria vaccines
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”...
IDA Highlight: Scanning the TCR repertoire to inform new TB vaccine targets
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...