Luciano Adorini, president of 15th International Congress of Immunology, talks about some of the topics that will be covered during ICI2013.
The XV International Congress of Immunology will be held in Milan,
Italy, from August 22nd to August 27th, at the MiCo congress facility, organized by the International Union of
Immunological Societies (IUIS) and the Italian Society for
Immunology,Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA).
At the
event will be present about 5000 immunologists from 70 countries. Among
500 speakers there will be the main experts in this fields worldwide,
including three Nobel Prizes: Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel,
awarded in 1996 for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the
cell mediated immune defence, and Jules A. Hoffmann, awarded in 2011 for
his discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity.