Annual Meeting
Present your work at Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024!
Students and Postdoctoral Researchers presenting novel and promising research may apply to receive a travel award to partially cover travel expenses. [READ MORE]
Month: April 2024
Annual Meeting
Have You Started Making Your Plans to Attend Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024?
Have You Started Making Your Plan to Attend Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024? Here’s Two More “Must Visit” Places in Seoul – and the latest list of symposia speakers confirmed by the Cytokine 2024 secretariat. [READ MORE]
Members on the Move
Michael Gale, Jr. to become Director of the Institute on Infectious Diseases at University of Minnesota
Prof. Michael Gale, Jr. to head University of Minnesota’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology and become Director of the Institute on Infectious Diseases [READ MORE]
YI Award Winners - Where are they now?
2023 ICIS-Regeneron Award Winner – Edward Chuong, Assistant Professor at the BioFrontiers Institute, at the University of Colorado Boulder
EDWARD CHUONG, Assistant Professor at the BioFrontiers Institute, at the University of Colorado Boulder My lab studies the interplay between transposons and immune evolution. We can think of transposons as a genetic infection that we can never get rid of. Although our cells have evolved defenses against them, transposons are [READ MORE]
Member Highlights
Member Highlight: Paul Hertzog, B.Sc (Honours), Ph.D., The University of Melbourne
There have been many great (Cytokines) meetings for different reasons. But the standout for me was Hawaii 2022. It was the first face-to-face meeting post COVID lockdown era and Melbourne had one of the longest at 265 days!!! So this was the first time we had seen our international family in over 3 years! The excitement was palpable. It brought home all the values of our Science and this Society. [READ MORE]
Member Highlights
Member Highlight: Ruby Dawson, Postdoctoral Researcher, South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI)
My research investigates the function of innate immune receptors in gastric cancer and gastric inflammation.
Being on the ICIS council as a junior member for the past few years has been invaluable for my career. It’s provided insight into how international societies work, how conferences are organised and given me experience in activities outside of pure research.
After COVID travel restrictions, it’s been great to meet collaborators face to face, some for the first time. The 2023 meeting in Athens was great. There were great talks, good food and fun networking sessions! The music from Luke O’Neill’s band was a highlight. [READ MORE]
Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials of interest to cytokine & interferon researchers [READ MORE]
Annual Meeting
Top 10 Must Visit Places in Seoul
Top 10 must visit places in Seoul: In each of the next 5 issues of Signals+ we will feature two of the top 10 things to do in Seoul. Thanks to the Cytokines 2024 Local Organizing Committee member Jae Hun Shin, PhD, Yonsei University, Korea. #1 Gyeongbokgung Palace; #2 The [READ MORE]
Special Article of Interest
The Write Stuff, by Prof. John Tregoning
Image from: How do we study viruses? What is a vaccine? And why don’t viruses kill us all? We answer these questions and more in our new Coursera course “Foundations in Virology and Vaccinology”, https://ow.ly/POzX50QZs03 Prof. John Tregoning on how writing science for lay audiences strengthens writing for scientific ones Communicating [READ MORE]
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