New Member Mini-Bios

Masao Hashimoto

Masao Hashimoto, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Atlanta, United States Masao Hashimoto, MD, PhD is an Instructor of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Emory Vaccine Center at Emory University of School of Medicine. He earned his MD degree in [READ MORE]

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Ichiko Kinjyo

Ichiko Kinjyo MD Ph.D, Research Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, USA Dr. Ichiko Kinjyo is a Research Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of New Mexico and Comprehensive Cancer Center. After [READ MORE]

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Kristin L. Patrick

Kristin L. Patrick, Ph.D., Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology – Texas A&M School of Medicine Dr. Patrick is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M School of Medicine. Dr. Patrick received her Ph.D. from Yale University (under the mentorship of Dr. Christian Tschudi) and did her postdoc training at University [READ MORE]

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Piotr Konieczny

Piotr Konieczny, New York University Langone Health, New York, United States Piotr is a Bernard B. Levine Postdoctoral Fellow in Immunology at the New York Grossman School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University, Poland, where he investigated the role of an RNase, MCPIP1, in skin physiology [READ MORE]

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Parisa Kalantari

Parisa Kalantari, PhD, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Dr. Parisa Kalantari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. She obtained her PhD in Pathobiology in the Center for Molecular Immunology and Infectious [READ MORE]

Special Article of Interest

What’s new in translational immunology

The last several years have seen a virtual explosion of novel inborn errors of immunity (IEI), with 56 novel diseases discovered between 2020-2022 1. It should therefore come as no surprise that the spectrum of genetic immune dysregulation has continued to expand dramatically over the last year. While it is impossible to review all the major advances in the field, several recent publications will be of particular interest to cytokine biologists [READ MORE]

President's Letter

A NOTE FROM THE ICIS PRESIDENT, Christopher Hunter:

With only 4.5 months till our Annual Meeting in Athens this would be a great time to encourage Early-Bird registrations (June 28th deadline) and Late Breaking abstract submissions (deadline August 31st) and we remain dedicated to providing support for our trainees. The organizers invited speakers program has come along nicely – but abstracts remain an important source of the speakers chosen and they will be included in the program in the coming days. It is also our awards season – and this year we had an exceptional slate of candidates for our Senior & Mid-Career awards (Judy Lieberman, Daniel Cua, Dusan Bogunovic, Jacob Yount, Daniela Novick and Brendan Jenkins), while we have had a record number of nominees for the junior awards (to be announced soon). Important opportunity to acknowledge those who took the time to nominate these candidates and the work of our awards committee in assessing these amazing cytokine biologists. [READ MORE]

New Member Mini-Bios

Larissa Laine

Larissa Laine, PhD, Finnish institute for Health and Welfare, Expert Microbiology Unit, Helsinki, Finland Larissa Laine, Ph.D Dr. Laine received her Ph.D in parasitology and biochemistry from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. She studied the biochemical, structural, and functional properties of the Plasmodium falciparum pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. She [READ MORE]

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Ahmed Kabil

Ahmed Kabil, University of British Columbia, Biomedical Research Centre, McNagny Lab, Vancouver, Canada Ahmed Kabil is a PhD candidate working in the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. He obtained a high honors BASc in applied science from the University of Toronto. Ahmed Kabil’s research focuses on [READ MORE]