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An Italian lead for worldwide immunology

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Pubblicato il 23/08/2013Read time: 1 min

 

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.

Mantovani would then represent about 70,000 immunologists from more than 100 countries. The election occurred during the XV International Congress of Immunology, organized by the IUIS and the Italian Society of Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA), now ongoing in Milan.

 

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