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The organizers cordially invite you to participate in the Joint Annual Meeting of the International Cytokine Society and the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research to be held October 3-7, 2010 at, Hyatt Regency in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The overall theme of this conference is Cytokines in Infectious Diseases, Autoimmune Disorders, and Cancer.

The topics at this conference will cover the spectrum from basic science to clinical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical research. Research from this area of immunology has been directly responsible for the development of growth factors and their application in hematology, for novel treatments in oncology, for a new generation of anti-inflammatory drugs, and for treatments for multiple sclerosis, hepatitis and viral syndromes.

Senior scientists, young investigators, physicians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry would all benefit from the interactions available at this conference. 

Topics to be discussed include:

Leading scientists have already agreed to participate in this conference. The International Advisory Committee is committed to focusing on biomedical advances and their application in the areas of inflammation, infectious diseases, oncology, neurology and immunology.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Executive committee

Leonidas C. Platanias - Chair -Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago USA
Scott K. Durum - National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA
Eleanor Fish - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

Other Members of the Scientific Program Organizing Committee

Curt Horvath
Northwestern University

Warren Leonard
NHLBI, NIH

George Stark
Cleveland Clinic

Carl Ware
LaJolla Institute –Allergy and Immunology

Howard Young
NIH/NCI

International Organizing Committee

Christine Czarniecki, PhD (USA) NIAID/NIH

Takashi Fujita, PhD (Japan) Kyoto University Institute for Virus Research

Otto Haller, MD (Germany) University of Freiburg Dept of Virol

Tom Hamilton, PhD (USA) Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Dept of Immunology

Paul Herzog, PhD (Australia) Monash University

Raymond Kaempfer, PhD (Israel) Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dhan Kalvakolanu, PhD (USA) University of Maryland School of Medicine

George Kollias Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center

Santo Landolfo , PhD (Italy) Medical School of Torino

Allan Lau, MD (China) University of Hong Kong

Alberto Mantovani, MD (Italy) Foundazione Humanitas per las Ricerca Instituto Clinico Humanitas

Luke O'Neill, PhD (Ireland) Trinity College, Biochemistry Dept.

Sidney Pestka, MD (USA) University of Medicine and Denistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Ana Costa-Pereira, PhD (UK) Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine

Nancy Reich, PhD (USA) Stony Brook University

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD (USA) Mount Sinai School of Medicine

John Schader, MBBS, PhD, FRSC (Canada) University of British Columbia

Ganes Sen, PhD (USA) Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Michael Tovey, PhD (France) National Center for Scientific Research Institute Andre Lwoff, Laboratory of Viral Oncology

David Wallach, PhD (Israel) Weizmann Institute