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2024 ICIS Young Investigator Award Nominations/Applications - Due April 3, 2024
Awards

2024 ICIS Young Investigator Award Nominations/Applications due April 3rd

March 1, 2024

Candidates may apply or be nominated for MORE THAN ONE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD using the Nomination/Application Form below as well as for a Cytokines 2024 Travel Award (applied for via the Cytokines 2024 Abstract Submission), but will not be awarded more than one award in a given year. Deadline for submitting Young Investigator award application is extended to Wednesday, 3 April, 2024.

Nominations by mentors and/or colleagues for the Young Investigator Awards or self-applicants, please use one form for each candidate for ALL 2024 Young Investigator Award nominations or applications. Candidates may be nominated for more than one award using the same form (multi-select), but please use a separate form for each candidate. [READ MORE]

Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024 Awards
Awards

ICIS Senior & Mid-Career Awards Nomination Deadline is March 4th – Recognizing Excellence in Cytokine Biology

February 19, 2024

ICIS Council is proud of the high level of award winners at every career stage, and it is a source of satisfaction that the Awards Committee has to choose between so many inspiring candidates. Consider the careers and contributions to our field that past ICIS award winners have and continue to make and it is clear how important it is that we recognize those who are revolutionizing modern medicine and leading to new treatments in autoimmune diseases, cancer and infectious diseases. [READ MORE]

Ludwig Princeton Branch, Mol Bio Welcome Lynch as Joint Faculty Member
Members on the Move

Lydia Lynch, an ICIS Mid-Career Award Winner & Nominating Committee Member joins Princeton as Full Professor in Department of Molecular Biology and a Member of the Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

February 19, 2024

Princeton University and the Princeton Brance of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research announce the appointment of Lydia Lynch as Full Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology a full member of the Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Professor Lynch is a former Mid-Career Award Winner and on the Nominating Committee of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society and will be leaving her position as Associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. [READ MORE]

rof. Ilja Striz, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical and Transplant Immunology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
New Member Mini-Bios

Ilja Striz, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Clinical and Transplant Immunology at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM)

February 19, 2024

Ilja Striz serves as the head of the Department of Clinical and Transplant Immunology at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM). He is also a Professor of Immunology at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and holds the positions of Vice-President in the Czech Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology and the Czech Immunological Society. [READ MORE]

Special Article of Interest

A “Tour de Force” Nature Genetics Publication by New Member Musa Mhlanga

February 5, 2024

A recent study from the Mhlanga lab published in Nature Genetics, “A chromatin-regulated biphasic circuit coordinates IL-1β-mediated inflammation” sheds light on an intriguing locus harboring the proinflammatory cytokine IL1b and the anti inflammatory cytokine IL37. Their study focuses on a region between these two genes that harbors SNPs associated with altered immune responses in individuals during infection. They show that this region encodes the long noncoding RNA they name AMANZI (A MAster Noncoding RNA antagoniZing Inflammation) where the common variant RS16944 resides. [READ MORE]

Cytokines 2024 & KAI 2024 Joint Meeting updated website
Annual Meeting

Unveiling the New Website for Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024 Joint Meeting

February 1, 2024

Abstract submission is opening soon. We invite you to view the preliminary program, confirmed invited speakers, abstract submission topics and more. [READ MORE]

Mark Wilson, PhD Executive Director, Inflammation Amgen
Members on the Move

Mark Wilson formerly of Genentech is now Executive Director, Inflammation at Amgen

January 31, 2024

After enjoying 7 years at Genentech, ICIS Industry Member, Mark Wilson has moved from Genentech (Distinguished Scientist) to Amgen, (Executive Director), only a few blocks down the road in South San Francisco. Dr. Wilson, who is always open to discussing and sharing his career and experience in industry, co-chaired the following session at Cytokines 2023, and was joined by a rich array of old and new colleagues in beautiful Athens. Catch up with him at Cyokines 2024 in Seoul, Korea. [READ MORE]

Members on the Move

Congratulations to Signals+ Editorial Board Member Saurabh Chattopadhyay on his New Position

January 31, 2024

Associate Professor Chattopadhyay has moved from University of Toledo to the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. [READ MORE]

Members in the News

Congratulations to Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti 2024 AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award

January 31, 2024

Congratulations ICIS member and former Council Member, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD, for being awarded the 2024 AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award for her research identifying fundamental mechanisms and establishing new scientific paradigms connecting innate immunity, cell death, and disease. [READ MORE]