Live report from the XV International Congress of Immunology


Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel discuss about new perspectives in immunology.
Alberto Mantovani, Chief science officer of the Istituto Clinico Humanitas and Professor of General Pathology at the University of Milan, has been elected President of the International Union of Immunological Societies, which gathers all the immunological societies around the world.
This evening, in the contest of the 15th International Congress of Immunology, there will be the award ceremony of the Novartis Prizes for Immunology, which are awarded to those scientists who made groundbreaking contributions to research in immunology.
The Novartis Prize for Immunology 2013 goes to Tim R. Mosmann, from the University of Rochester, and to Robert Coffman, chief scientific officer at Dynavax Technologies.
The opening press conference of the XV International Congress of Immunology, promoted and organized by the Italian Society for Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA) and the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), will be held in Milan on August 22nd at 11 a.m. at the congress venue, MiCo (Piazzale Carlo Magno 1, gate 17 Suite 3, Level 2).
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Luciano Adorini, president of 15th International Congress of Immunology, talks about some of the topics that will be covered during ICI2013.
The new research center :envihab at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne represents a bridge between the traditional medicine on Earth and the space medicine. The structure, with an area of 3500 square meters and a cost of 30 million Euro, will be used to study the effects of extreme environmental conditions on the human body and to determine the possible countermeasures. For example, the researchers will study the effects of aging, bed rest, immobilization and isolation on Earth.