GENERAL

· FOCIS - Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies – www.focisnet.org

· American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - www.ashi-hla.org

· American Association of Immunologists – www.aai.org

· Clinical Immunology Association - www.clinimmsoc.org  

IMMUNE TOLERANCE ON THE WEB

· Indices of Tolerance – www.transplant-tolerance.org.uk

· Conceptual Immune Tolerance Group@ Harvard –
  www.chip.org/~asher/citg/

TRANSPLANTATION

· American Society of Transplant Surgeons – www.asts.org

· American Society of Transplantation – www.a-s-t.org

· International Liver Transplantation Society – www.ilts.org

· International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association – www.ipita.org

· American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases – www.aasld.org

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

· Immunology of Diabetes Society – www.idsoc.org

· Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet – www.diabetestrialnet.org

ALLERGY & ASTHMA

· American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology – www.aaaai.org

Industry Links

Biogen - a global biotechnology company discovering and developing drugs, many targeting diseases of the immune system. [open]

Biotransplant - is developing therapeutics and systems to re-educate the body's immune system to accept transplanted cells, tissues and organs [open]

Bristol Myers Squibb - developing a number of tolerogenic agents in transplantation and rheumatoid arthritis. [open]

Corixa - developing new vaccines for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis [open]

IDEC Pharmaceuticals - pharmaceutical firm developing new drugs for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including an anti-CD40 ligand for costimulatory blockade [open]

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company - a biotechnology company developing therapeutics for antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases, with phase III trials in lupus kidney disease. [open]

Medimmune - Developing an anti-CD2 monoclonal antibody for psoriasis [open]

Millennium Pharmaceuticals - biopharmaceutical company involved int eh development of new agents, including Campath. [open]

Repligen - biotechnology company focused on developing new drugs for, among other things, immune and metabolic disorders [open]

Research Funding

· National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease – www.niaid.nih.gov

· National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases – www.niddk.nih.gov

· Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation – www.jdrf.org

· Roche Organ Transplantation Research Foundation – www.rotrf.org