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Please be aware that Google Maps does not support walking route services in Korea. For accurate navigation and route planning, we highly recommend using Naver Maps to check routes and directions within the country.

How to use Naver Map (Best map app in Korea) | Guide, tips, English settings | Korea Travel Tips!

October 15, 2024

Please be aware that Google Maps does not support walking route services in Korea. For accurate navigation and route planning, we highly recommend using Naver Maps to check routes and directions within the country. https://youtu.be/Ovac6OieO6E?si=ylAFMpqId9N_smAp

Coex City Airport Terminal (“CALT”) provides a non-stop limousine bus services with over 60 Premium Airport Limousine traveling to and from Incheon International Airport on a daily basis

October 15, 2024

Cost: KRW 17,000 (USD 12.90). When you exit customs, after retrieving luggage, look for the bus kiosks. You can purchase the ticket using a credit card, and they’ll tell you exactly where to line up and where and when the bus leaves. These are very comfortable busses, have WiFi and will tag your luggage and stow it underneath. You just sit back and relax. [READ MORE]

How to use Naver Map (Best map app in Korea) | Guide, tips, English settings | Korea Travel Tips!

October 15, 2024

As a living vestige of Korea's history and culture, The National Museum of Korea is home to today's best collection of history and culture deeply rooted within the Korean people. Regular exhibitions and education programming speak of the numerous anecdotes of the nearly 420,000 collected historical artifacts with thousands of years of history, while also offering realistic digital animations and VR technology to provide a more impactful experience. The museum includes everything from a simple hand axe of the Paleolithic Period and a magnificient golden crown of the Three Kingdoms Period to Goryeo Period celadons, or pottery, and paintings dating back to the Joseon Period, as well as pictures of modern-era Korea and a variety of other zones dedicated to different cultures throughout the globe. Bring your family, friends, or even that special someone over to the museum for a day of fascination amid a compilation of detailed and colorful history.

Free Guided English Tour of the National Museum of Korea in Seoul this Saturday offered at 10:30 & 13:00

October 14, 2024

National Museum of Korea, Free Guided English tour Saturday 19th either at 10:30 or 13:00. As a living vestige of Korea’s history and culture, The National Museum of Korea is home to today’s best collection of history and culture deeply rooted within the Korean people. We invite all participants of Cytokines 2024 / KAI 2024 who will be in Seoul this Saturday, 19 October, to the free guided tour in English either 10:30 or 13:00. [READ MORE]

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President’s Letter: Cytokines 2024 and KAI 2024 Starts Sunday

October 14, 2024

Well, it’s hard to believe it but October is here, and with it Cytokines2024! As I write this my bag is packed, my itinerary organized (sort of), and my excitement is mounting for my first trip to Seoul, Korea. The program is set, featuring Keynote speakers, Dr. Judith Allen (University [READ MORE]

Member Highlight Interview: Samuel Philip Nobs, Ph.D. and 2024 Sidney & Joan Pestka Post Graduate Award Winner

October 14, 2024

My main research interest is to decipher how signals such those of the microbiota and metabolism regulate inflammatory diseases and infections of the respiratory tract. I am about to launch my independent scientific career and I am very grateful for the support of the ICIS through the Sydney and Joan [READ MORE]

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology is Hiring!

October 14, 2024

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology is delighted to announce three open faculty positions: one at Full/Associate Professor (tenured) and two at Assistant Professor (tenure stream). The Department of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is expanding its primary faculty base and invites applicants focused on [READ MORE]

Clinical Trials

October 13, 2024

Clinical Trials of interest to cytokine & interferon researchers. CSF Protein Markers as Prognostic Indicators of the Response to CSF Shunt in Normotensive Hydrocephalus ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05915000 Sponsor University of Valencia Information provided by University of Valencia (Responsible Party) Last Update Posted 2023-06-22 GM-CSF for Reversal of immunopAralysis in pediatriC [READ MORE]

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