Major Symposium A: Mechanism-Guided Therapy of Immunologic Diseases

Major Symposium A: Mechanism-Guided Therapy of Immunologic Diseases

Chairs:
Gerald T. Nepom, Benaroya Res. Inst.
Qizhi Tang, Univ. of California, San Francisco

Speakers:

• John D. Rioux, Univ. de Montréal and Montreal Heart Inst., Canada, Genetically-guided development of clinical assays for predicting response to biologic therapies
• Virginia Pascual, Baylor Inst. for Immunol. Res., Genomic approaches to guide therapeutic decisions in autoimmune diseases
• John E. Harris, Univ. of Massachusetts Med. Sch., Translational research in vitiligo: gaining insight into mechanisms of organ-specific autoimmunity
• Amit Bar-Or, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Targeting B cell cytokine networks in T cell-mediated autoimmune disease
• Gerald T. Nepom, Benaroya Res. Inst., Therapeutic modulation of effector T cells in autoimmunity
• Qizhi Tang, Univ. of California, San Francisco, Treg cell therapy in autoimmune diseases and transplantation