The first Global ImmunoCourse, a sister initiative of Global Immunotalks, was held in IISc, Bengaluru. Global Immunotalks is an online, archived seminar series available on YouTube, featuring preeminent immunologists (www.globalimmunotalks.org). Global ImmunoCourse is designed to introduce the fundamentals of immunology in an engaging manner and foster a global community of passionate [READ MORE]
Congratulations Dr. Ghosh for your winning project centered on understanding the roles of interferons in colitis and colorectal cancer and exploiting their functions for treating IBD patients… [READ MORE]
Dr. GuanQun ‘Leo’ Liu, the recipient of the Cytokines 2021 Pfizer Junior Investigator Award, is joining the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University as an Assistant Professor in March 2024… [READ MORE]
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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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]
Inviting all ICIS Members to share their promotions, publications, mini-bios, meeting announcements, industry news, career opportunities, or other news of interest to the cytokine & interferon research community. Also, if you have a few minutes to provide a Member Highlights interview, please contact Joan Oefner [email protected] for inclusion in a future bimonthly issue of Signals+. Deadlines are the 1st and the 15th of each month. To find out more about industry ads, please click here ADVERTISE. [READ MORE]
Howard A. Young PhD has announced he is entering emeritus status after four decades at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. The ICIS owes much to Howard and this article seeks to acknowledge his many contributions to us, to other scientific organizations, to scientists and to science. [READ MORE]
Interview with ICIS Treasurer, Dusan Bogunovic Please tell us your name, degree, where you currently work, positionDusan Bogunovic, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, Professor Where did you do your training?New York University for Ph.D., and Rockefeller for Postdoc Briefly, what is your research about? The Bogunovic [READ MORE]
The Beyond Sciences Initiative (BSI), a not-for-profit international organization, provides a platform for dialogue among young scholars around the globe. www.beyondsciences.org
Dr. Eleanor Fish founded BSI in 2013, specifically to create a network for young scholars that would develop lasting relationships throughout their professional careers, cognizant of the diversity and inequities around the globe. The first founding Chapter of BSI was in Toronto, affiliated with Trinity College, Toronto and the University of Toronto. To date BSI has representatives in over 100 countries. BSI’s mandate is to foster academic and personal growth while empowering young scientific leaders to make lasting and influential change within their local and global communities. This is accomplished by increasing cultural understanding among geographically separate communities, and by ensuring unrestricted access to scientific knowledge through mentorship, STEM workshops, a lecture repository and an annual international online conference. [READ MORE]
Susan Carpenter has been a member of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) since its inception, having first become aware of the society as a graduate student when the then Cytokine and Interferon Societies first merged. She attends all the Cytokines Annual meetings together with her students and postdocs and was elected Secretary of the Society in 2022. In 2017 she was awarded the Christina Fleischmann Award for Excellence in Interferon & Cytokine Research.
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