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 Fu 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;
Tyler J Curiel, University of Texas Health
Sciences Center, 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;
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 John Foley, Senior Editor
of Science
Dr Clare Thomas, Senior Editor
of Nature Medicine
Dr Christine Borowski, Senior
Editor of Nature Immunology
Dr Lucy Bird, Senior Editor
of Nature Review Immunology
