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Announcement of Cytokines 2023 Local Organizing Committee Member Irini Sereti as Chief of the combined LIR and LMM at NIH/NIAID

December 15, 2023

Dr Steven Holland, Scientific Director of NIAID announced announce the selection of Dr. Irini Sereti as the new Chief of the combined Laboratories of Immunoregulation (LIR), previously led by Dr Fauci, and Molecular Microbiology (LMM), led by Dr Malcolm Martin. Irini is currently Chief of the HIV Pathogenesis Section in the LIR, where she leads an innovative program on HIV pathogenesis and immune reconstitution. These now combined laboratories have largely defined and led the fields of HIV and AIDS research from the very beginning of the HIV pandemic. She was identified in a competitive national search.
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Members in the News

ICIS Member Seth Masters to head the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases (CiiiD) at Hudson Institute of Medical Research

December 15, 2023

Hudson Institute’s world leading inflammation programs enter a new era with the appointment of Professor Seth Masters to head the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases (CiiiD).

An expert in genetic disorders that trigger inflammatory diseases, Prof Masters has spent the past 12 years as Head of the Inflammasomes and Autoinflammatory Disease Laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). [READ MORE]

Member Highlight: Meet Yanick Crow, M.D., Ph.D.

February 17, 2025

The following interview was conducted by Signals+ Editor Maialen Sebastian-delaCruz, Ph.D. Connect with her on LinkedIn. The best life/career advice I have ever received was, “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” In the Crow Lab, we are interested in human monogenic diseases associated with chronically enhanced production of type I interferons [READ MORE]

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Past-Presidents Dr Christopher A Hunter and Dr Warren J Leonard named AAI Distinguished Fellows

February 17, 2025

Congratulations Chris Hunter and Warren Leonard! Dr Christopher A Hunter and Dr Warren J Leonard were selected as Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) in this year’s class. Dr Hunter and Dr Leonard are Past-Presidents of International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) and of the International Cytokine [READ MORE]

Graphical abstract and citation of recent article from lab of Dr. Edward Chuong

“Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization” published in Cell

February 3, 2025

The following interview was conducted by Signals+ Editor Maialen Sebastian-delaCruz, Ph.D. Connect with her on LinkedIn. A recent study by Pasquesi et al from the Chuong lab published in Cell, “Regulation of human interferon signaling by transposon exonization” showed that transposable element exonization can yield functional protein isoforms as seen for [READ MORE]

Elias A. Said, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Member Highlight: Meet Elias Said

February 3, 2025

The following interview was conducted by Signals+ Editor Maialen Sebastian-delaCruz, Ph.D. Connect with her on LinkedIn. I am a researcher in the Immunology field, specifically innate immunity and cytokines. Also, an Associate Editor for scientific journals. My research has led to significant achievements, such as identifying the role of PD-1 in [READ MORE]

Single-arm, Dose-escalation Trial of Long-acting Recombinant Human IL-7 (NT-I7, Efineptakin Alfa) for Idiopathic CD4 Lymphopenia

February 3, 2025

ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05600920 Sponsor National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Information provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)) Study Overview Brief Summary Background: Idiopathic CD4 lymphopenia (ICL) is a syndrome characterized by low levels of certain immune cells [READ MORE]

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