Conference Honorary Chairman

 

Prof HUANG Jiefu, Vice Minister of Health of China

 

 

Conference Chairs

 

Shuiping Jiang, King's College London, UK

Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA

Herman Waldmann, University of Oxford, UK

George Gao, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

 

Conference Co-Chairs

 

Jeffrey Bluestone, University of California at San Francisco, USA

Xuetao Cao, Second Military Medical University, China

Wei He, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China

Jingwu Zang, GlaxoSmithKline R&D China, China

 

 

Confirmed International Speakers

 

Shimon Sakaguchi (Keynote Speaker), Kyoto University, Japan;

Yasmine Belkaid, National Institutes of Health, USA;

Bruce Blazar, University of Minnesota, USA;

Jeffrey Bluestone, University of California at San Francisco, USA;

Harald von Boehmer, Harvard University, USA;

Wanjun Chen, National Institutes of Health, USA;

Terry Delovitch, Robarts Research Institute, Canada;

Matthias Edinger, University Regensbury, Germany;

C. Garrison Fathman, Stanford University, USA;

Richard Flavell, Yale University, USA;

Yang-Xin Fu, University of Chicago, USA;

David Hafler, Harvard University, USA;

Catherine Hawrylowicz, King's College London, UK;

Ludger Klein, University of Munich, Germany;

Vipin Kumar, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, USA;

Robert Lechler, King's College London, UK;

Megan Levings, University of British Columbia, Canada;

Yong-Jun Liu, Anderson Cancer Center, USA;

Thomas Malek, University of Miami, USA;

Joost van Meerwijk, INSERM, France;

Stephen Miller, Northwestern University, USA;

Kingston H.G. Mills, Trinity College, Ireland;

Ciriaco Piccirillo, McGill University, Canada;

Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, UK;

Maria Grazia Roncarolo, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy;

Alexander Rudensky, University of Washington, USA;

Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA;

Joan Stein-Streilein, Harvard University, USA;

Dale Umetsu, Harvard University, USA;

Hans-Dieter Volk, Charite, Humboldt University, Germany;

Herman Waldmann, University of Oxford, UK;

Kathryn Wood, University of Oxford, UK;

Li Zhang, University of Toronto, Canada;

Weiping Zou, University of Michigan, USA

 

Conference Special Guests 

 

Dr Stephen Simpson, Senior Editor of Science

Dr Clare Thomas, Senior Editor of Nature Medicine

Dr Christine Borowski, Associate Editor of Nature Immunology

Dr Lucy Bird, Senior Editor of Nature Review Immunology