ITN Hosts “A View Towards (Immune) Tolerance” Symposium at FOCIS 2012

The Immune Tolerance Netowork (ITN) is hosting a Member Society Symposium entitled “A View Towards (Immune) Tolerance” on June 20^th, 2012 at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) annual meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The symposium highlights ITN’s recent clinical and mechanistic achievements in allergy, autoimmunity, and solid organ transplantation. The list of talks and speakers is below:

A View (Towards) Immune Tolerance
Wednesday, June 20^th, 2012
8:00am-12:00pm

8:00 – 8:15	Introduction Chairperson: Jerry Nepom MD, PhD, Immune Tolerance Network
8:15 – 9:00	Anti-CD3 in Type I Diabetes Kevan Herold, MD, Yale University
9:00 – 9:45	IL-2 Therapy in Autoimmune Disease Jane Buckner, MD, Benaroya Research Institute
9:45 – 10:30	TCR repertoire studies in ITN trial of autologous hematopoietic transplantation in MS Paolo Muraro, MD, PhD, Imperial College London
10:30 – 11:15	The GRASS study: Novel local and cellular biomarkers for monitoring immunological changes following allergen-specific immunotherapy Mohamed Shamji, PhD, Imperial College London
11:15 – 12:00	Diagnostic and Predictive Markers of Tolerance in Solid Organ Transplantation Ken Newell, MD, PhD, Emory University

For more information about the symposium or the FOCIS meeting, visit www.focisnet.org