Greetings from Canada, where we are at the start of our descent into the depths of winter. I was elected as Treasurer of IUIS at the Melbourne International Congress of Immunology about two years ago and I am delighted to bring you an update of my role on Council and where we currently stand financially. As a member of the IUIS Executive Committee, my responsibility is to ensure that we have the financial resources to accomplish our goals, and importantly to do this in a way that is transparent and fully accountable to the IUIS council and our member Societies. The 2018 IUIS budget and accompanying notes can be found here.
For the full article, including an overview of revenue streams and the activities that are supported in turn, please read morehere.
Michael J.H. Ratcliffe IUIS Treasurer
IUIS Welcomes 6 New Member Societies!
6 New IUIS Members!
We are pleased to announce six IUIS National Member Society applications have been approved by the IUIS General Assembly via an online vote. Here is a list of the new members:
Algeria – Algerian Society of Immunology
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Association of Immunology in Bosnia & Herzegovina
Chile – Chilean Association of Immunology (ASOCHIN)
Ivory Coast – Society of Clinical and Biological Immunology of Côte d’Ivoire
Kazakhstan – Kazakhstan Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology
Luxembourg – Luxembourg Society for Allergology and Immunology (LSAI)
Call for IUIS Officer and Council Member Nominations:
The triennial IUIS Executive and Council Elections will take place during the 17th IUIS General Assembly on Saturday, 19 October 2019, prior to the IUIS 2019 Opening Ceremonies in Beijing, China.
As a valued member of the IUIS, you now have the privilege to send in nominations for the following seats:
2019-2022 Executive Committee (Vice-President, Secretary General and Treasurer)
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Stefan H.E. Kaufmann (IUIS President, 2010-2013)
Prof. Dr. Stefan H.E. Kaufmann (IUIS President, 2010-2013) has been awarded with one of the most prestigious Belgian scientific prizes - The GAGNA A. & Ch. VAN HECK Prize. His pioneering contribution to the understanding of the function of T-lymphocytes, myeloid cells and cytokines in infections caused by intracellular bacteria opens new perspectives in the control of tuberculosis and has resulted in the development of a vaccine which is now in the last stage of clinical development.
IUIS congratulates James Allison and Tasuku Honjo on their Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018 "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation." The prize recognises the fundamental immunology research that led to the introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer treatment.
We have a winner! The IUIS, together with Vaccines Europe is pleased to announce the 2018 winner of the Early Career Research Prize in Vaccinology R&D. The winner has been identified by a jury of 8 members of the IUIS Vaccine Committee among the excellent applications received from 12 different European countries. According to the standardized scoring system followed, the highest scores were given to Christian T. Mayer (Germany), currently working at Twincore, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research (lab of Prof. Tim Sparwasser), Hannover, Germany.
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) has been IUIS partner for over 10 years in hosting young researchers from the developing countries as participants in their premier immunology course. IUIS Gender Equality and Career Development Committee (GECD) selects the participants and awards travel fellowships to the course.
Visit the IUIS website to read the report on the FOCIS Advanced Course in Basic & Clinical Immunology which took place in Scottsdale, Arizona, US earlier this year.
Complement Standardization Committee - a QAS subcommittee:
The Complement Standardization Committee (CSC), is a sub-committee of the Quality Assessment Standardization IUIS Committee.
Some of the primary objectives of the CSC are initiating and organizing actions to improve the quality of complement analysis, making available various standard materials to academic and clinical laboratories, defining standardized methods of modern complement analysis, etc.
FAIS & IUIS are proud to launch a new initiative on the African continent: the FAIS Legacy Project. This first phase of funding will enable applicants to undertake a collaborative project in foreign laboratory. Applicants will be talented 2nd, 3rd year (or higher) PhD students registered in countries in North, East, Southern, West and Central Africa. We will select 2 Students from each region. The objective of the award is to enhance immunology research in Africa and collaborations worldwide.
IUIS Course Material - Providing online immunology education
Immunopaedia.orgis the official educational provider of online pre-course material for IUIS immunology courses in the developing world and in other countries. Supported and working closely with the IUIS Education Committee, Immunopaedia delivers relevant and current educational content to provide frameworks of knowledge to IUIS course participants before they embark on face-to-face courses.
