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.
