Cytokines 2023 Closing Day Meeting and Gala Highlights Videos, Zorba & Photo Albums

Cytokines 2023 Gala Metabollix led by world renown immunologist, Luke O’Neill!

Thanks to Emmanouela Bourbouhakis and Adonis Vlachos from Photoshop Company in Athens for the above two “Highlights Videos” & professional photographs taken on the opening and closing days of Cytokines 2023.

Special thanks to Philip Hansbro for taking the next video which captures a special song that the Metabollix added to their playlist – and our local organizers and participants graciously taught participants to dance the Zorba!

Cytokines 2023 Photo Albums (click on each photo to view the photo albums)

Pre-Conference Symposium sponsored by KAI

ICIS Young Investigator Awards

ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Awards

Mid-Career & Senior Awards

Networking with the Exhibitors

Welcome Reception

ECR Networking Event (please send in your additional photos!)

Monday Night Acropolis Museum Networking Event (please send in your additional photos!)

Keynote 2 & Closing Session

Gala Dinner & Entertainment with Luke O’Neill & the Metabollix

More to come….we are especially in need of photos from the Monday night networking event at the Acropolis Museum & Tuesday night ECR Networking Event

To include your photos in the albums, please send them to Joan Oefner

Member Highlight: Professor Emeritus Alberto Mantovani

May 14, 2024 Member Highlights

Long time ICIS member, Alberto Mantovani, was recently elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished achievements in original research. See the May 3 issue of the Signals+ Newsletter for more on that honor. This issue, we’re pleased to feature Prof. Emeritus Mantovani in the [READ MORE]

Make Your Plans Now to attend Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024!

May 15, 2024 Annual Meeting

Join us for Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024 and be inspired by an exceptional lineup of confirmed speakers. Share your cytokine research with over 2,000 participants from around the world by submitting an abstract for oral or poster presentation by the Abstract Submission and Student Member Travel Award application deadline of May 20, 2024. [READ MORE]

Top 10 “must visit” places in Seoul — continued…

May 14, 2024 Annual Meeting

Local Organizing Committee’s next two on the list of 10 “must visit” places in Seoul. Thanks to the Cytokines 2024 LOC member Jae Hun Shin, PhD, Yonsei University, Korea, we will feature two of the top 10 things to do in Seoul. If you missed the first four please click [READ MORE]

2024 Mentorship Award: Susan Kaech is a Salk Institute Professor, Director of the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, and holder of the NOMIS Chair

Susan Kaech is the 2024 ICIS Mentorship Award Winner

May 15, 2024

Susan Kaech is the 2024 ICIS Mentorship Award Winner in recognition not only of her cutting-edge research and seminal discoveries and scientific accomplishment, but for her ardent sponsorship and relentless championship of the junior faculty she has helped in the establishment and success of their own independent research programs. She is known as a “forever-mentor” who cares more about her trainees (and often those completely unrelated to her lab) than she does about her own career, strongly supporting people in her lab long after they have left the lab. [READ MORE]

ICIS Member and 2019 Milstein Award Winner, Professor Akiko Iwasaki, renowned immunologist, has been named to both the TIME100 and TIME100 Health, two of Time Magazine's lists of the most influential people of 2024. The honor recognizes her pioneering research into post-acute infection syndromes like LlongCOVID.

ICIS Member Akiko Iwasaki has been named to both the TIME100 and TIME100 Health Lists of Most Influential People & in Health in 2024

May 15, 2024

ICIS Member and 2019 Milstein Award Winner, Professor Akiko Iwasaki, renowned immunologist, has been named to both the TIME100 and TIME100 Health, two of Time Magazine’s lists of the most influential people of 2024. The honor recognizes her pioneering research into post-acute infection syndromes like LongCOVID. [READ MORE]

Georg Schett Courtesy Uniklinikum Erlangen/Simone Kessler—SIMOarts

Georg Schett’s Autoimmunity breakthrough recognized by inclusion in the Time100 Health List of 100 Most Influential People in Health in 2024

May 15, 2024

Dr. Georg Schett, a world renown rheumatologist at the University Hospital Erlangen in Germany who chaired Cytokines 20219 in Vienna, has been named to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in Health for 2024 for his work using CAR T therapy to treat Autoimmune Diseases. Dr. Schett saw the potential of new immune-based therapy CAR T which dramatically improved outcomes for patients with certain blood cancers that involve B cells, like leukemia and lymphoma, as a promising treatment for autoimmune diseases like lupus, in which immune B cells attack the body’s own cells. He performed the first CAR T treatments on five patients with the disease in 2022. Eight months after receiving the therapy, all five were in remission and no longer needed powerful immunosuppressive drugs to control their disease. Last year, Schett published a second groundbreaking study showing that another small group of patients receiving the therapy were still in remission more than two years later without immunosuppressive drugs. [READ MORE]

Distinguished Lecturer Christopher A. Hunter’s lecture, From parasites to mRNA vaccines: cytokine networks that dictate T cell tempo

Congratulations AAI 2024 Distinguished Lecturer Christopher A. Hunter “From parasites to mRNA vaccines: cytokine networks that dictate T cell tempo”

May 15, 2024

AAI 2024 Distinguished Lecturer Christopher A. Hunter: From parasites to mRNA vaccines: cytokine networks that dictate T cell tempo IL27 centric, great data with classic immunology experiments leading to promising new therapies.

Cytokines Regulating Neuroimmunometabolism Session Chairs: Lydia Lynch, Princeton University and Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University

May 15, 2024

International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) Symposium at AAI 2024 in Chicago:
Cytokines Regulating Neuroimmunometabolism
Session Chairs: Lydia Lynch, Princeton University and Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University

Description: The role of cytokines in non-classical immune-related physiology, focusing on how cytokines regulate neuroimmunology and metabolism, as well as the emerging field linking all 3 systems in ‚neuroimmunometabolism‘.

Speakers:
Lydia Lynch, Princeton University, USA, “Evolution of a cytokine neuroimmunometabolism pathway”
Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University, USA, “Cytokines regulating neuroimmunometabolism in maternal-offspring development”
Ruadhri Jackson, Harvard Medical School, USA, “An enteric neuroImmune circuit drives colorectal cancer”
Rami Bechara, University of Paris-Saclay, INSERM, France, “IL-17 as a regulator of metabolism in target cells”
Vishva Deep Dixit , Yale University, USA, “Adipose macrophages and regulation of neuroimmunometabolism”
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We’ve Moved!

May 15, 2024

The ICIS continues to be managed as a virtual office, now with one office in San Francisco and one in Germany. Since the society is a US registered non-profit organization that has been incorporated in the US, and Co-Managing Director, Stephanie Flores is located in San Francisco, please use the [READ MORE]

Biweekly newsletter of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society

Signals+ Editors: Daniella Schwartz & Di Yu (Editors in Chief), Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Zhian Chen, Mohamed Saad & Maialen Sebastian

Cytokines 2023 Closing Day Meeting and Gala Highlights Videos, Zorba & Photo Albums