Cytokines 2024 & KAI 2024 - Biweekly newsletter of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society

Member Highlight Interview with You-Me Kim, Ph.D., Co-Chair for Cytokines 2024 & KAI 2024

February 19, 2024

I started attending ICIS meetings in 2017 and learned a great deal about cytokines and made many friends. I have also served as a Council Member of ICIS since last year and am currently leading the local organizing committee for Cytokines 2024 & KAI 2024. What has struck me the most over the years of my engagement with ICIS is the great emphasis the ICIS leadership places on helping young scientists and the loyalty of ICIS members to the society. It is like once you are in, you belong to the family. I wish I had joined ICIS earlier in my career.

What book or TV show are you reading/watching right now that you recommend? “Breaking through: My life in Science” by Katalin Kariko. It shows how important perseverance is in science. It is a powerful and inspiring book and, at the same time, an easy read for non-native English speakers like me.” [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]

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