The ITN is hosting a Member Society Symposium entitled “Mechanisms of Tolerance” on June 25th, 2014 (12:45-pm-4:45pm CT) during the annual Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) meeting in Chicago, IL. The symposium features talks on emerging hypotheses of immune tolerance mechanisms:
Engrafting Tolerance using Hematopoeitic Stem Cells | |
12:45-1:25pm | Non-Myeloablative Bone Marrow Transplantation and High Dose Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide for Chimerism Induction and Renal Allograft Tolerance - Lode Swinnen, MD, Johns Hopkins University |
Getting the Balance Right – Tregulatory:Teffectors | |
1:25-2:05pm | A Method for Tracking Alloreative T cells and Deletional Tolerance - Megan Sykes, MD, Columbia University |
2:05-2:45pm | Rebalancing the Immune System in Type 1 Diabetes with Alefacept: Putting Theory into Practice - Mark Rigby, MD, PhD, Indiana University |
Exhaustion: A Route to Tolerance | |
3:25-4:05pm | The Spectrum of Activation, Exhaustion, and Senescence as it Relates to Tolerance - Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, Duke University |
4:05-4:45pm | Exhaustion: A Mechanism of Spontaneous Tolerance - Sandy Feng, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco |
The full Member Society Symposium agenda can be seen here.