Society Sponsored Symposia

BONE INFLAMMATION AND REGENERATION
Symposium sponsored by the JSIR
(Japanese Society of Inflammation and Regeneration) (*)

Chairpersons:
Hideyuki OKANO (Keio University, Japan),
Kouji MATSUSHIMA (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Anti-osteoclasts therapy
Hiroshi TAKAYANAGI (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
Neural differentiation and cell therapy using inducible pluripotent stem cells
Hideyuki OKANO (Keio University, Japan)
Early destruction of osteoblasts as a niche of hematopoietic stem cells in Bone Marrow-GVHD
Kouji MATSUSHIMA (University of Tokyo, Japan)

CHEMICAL TOXICITY AND INFLAMMATION
Symposium sponsored by the SPTC
(French Society of in vitro pharmacology and toxicology)

Chairpersons:
Marc PALLARDY (University Paris-Sud, Châtenay –Malabry, France)
Francelyne MARANO (University Paris-Diderot, Paris, France)

Mechanisms of chemical immune-mediated skin inflammation
Stefan MARTIN (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
Pulmonary inflammation and particulate matters
François HUAUX (Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium)
Role of environmental pollutants in adipose tisssue inflammation
Robert BAROUKI (University Paris-Descartes, Paris, France)

NEW PRO- AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF MICROBES
Symposium sponsored by the Inflammation Research Network

Chairpersons:
André BURET (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada),
Mustapha SI-TAHAR (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

Mechanisms of innate immune responses to influenza virus
Mustapha SI-TAHAR (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Mechanisms of lung inflammatory disease induced by bacteria
Tracy HUSSELL (Imperial College, London, UK)
Immuno-modulation by the normal intestinal flora
Kathy MCCOY (Insel Spital, Bern, Switzerland)
Macrophage immuno-modulation by helminthes
Derek MCKAY (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)
Suppression of epithelial pro-inflammatory signaling by intestinal Protozoa
Andre BURET (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)

POST-TRAUMATIC IMMUNE SUPPRESSION
Symposium sponsored by the SFAR
(French Society of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine)

Chairpersons:
Didier PAYEN (Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France),
Philippe MONTRAVERS (Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France)

Physiopathology of post-traumatic immune response
Richard S HOTCHKISS (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA)
Biomakers in trauma patients
Alain LEPAPE (Hôpital Lyon Sud, Lyon, France)
Systemic immunosuppression versus overwhelming pulmonary inflammation
Didier PAYEN (Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France)
Treatments in the future
Karim ASEHNOUNE (Hôpital de l’Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France)

INFLAMMATION IN SEVERE SEPSIS: FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE
Symposium sponsored by the SRLF (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française)

Chairpersons:
Jean-Marc CAVAILLON (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Jean CARLET (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland)

CANCER AND INFLAMMATION
Symposium sponsored by the IRA (Inflammation Research Society) (*)

Chairpersons:
John SOMERVILLE (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
Lisa MARSHALL (IAIS President)

Co-stimulation and cancer
James ALLISON (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
Cellular signaling and cancer
Robert SCHREIBER (Washington U., St Louis, USA)
Inflammatory cytokines and autocrine tumor-promoting networks
Frances BALKWILL (Institute of Cancer, Barts, London, UK)

NEW TRENDS IN THE CONTROL OF LUNG INFLAMMATION
Symposium sponsored by the BIS (Brasilian Inflammation Society) (*)

Chairpersons:
Bernhard RYFFEL (Transgenose Institute, CNRS, Orléans, France)
Marco A. MARTINS (Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Modulation of the chemokine system in pulmonary fibrosis
Mauro Martins TEIXEIRA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Role of inflammasome activation in allergic asthma
Bernhard RYFFEL (Transgenose Institute, CNRS, Orléans, France)
A new model of allergic lung inflammation suitable for investigating glucocorticoid-resistant asthma in the mouse
Marco Aurélio MARTINS (Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Sex hormones regulate lung injury caused by intestinal ischemia and reperfusion
B. Boris VARGAFTIG and Wothan TAVARES DE LIMA (Sao Paulo University, Brazil)
Sensing allergic inflammation
Momtchilo RUSSO (Sao Paulo University, Brazil)

GENOMICS AND EPIGENETICS OF INFLAMMATION
Symposium sponsored by the BIRAS
(British Inflammation Research Association) (*)

Chairpersons :
I. ADCOCK (Imperial College London, UK)
G. WALLACE (Imperial College London London, UK)

Expression profiling in inflammation
W. Ollier (University of Manchester, UK)
The role of small non-coding RNAs in inflammation
M Lindsey (University of Bath, UK)
Epigenetics and lung inflammation
I Adcock (Imperial College London, UK)
New tools for epigenetics - future therapeutics
C Bountra (University of Oxford, UK)

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES IN INFLAMMATION
Symposium sponsored by the SCIL
(Society for Cytokines, Inflammation and Leukocytes) (*)

Chairpersons :
J. HAMILTON (University of Melbourne, Australia)
E. MORAND (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

What have we learnt from targeted anti-TNF therapy
M. FELDMANN (Imperial College, London, UK)
Treating allergy – where to from here
R. O’HEHIR (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
The role of airways inflammation in development of persistent asthma during childhood: emerging targets for asthma prevention
P. HOLT (University of Western Australia; Perth, Australia)

INFLAMMATION AND REPAIR IN LUNG DISEASES
Symposium sponsored by the SPLF
(Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française)

Pulmonary inflammation and repair in fibrosis
Bruno CRESTANI (Paris, France)
Vascular inflammation in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Marc HUMBERT (Le Plessis-Robinson, France)
Bronchial inflammation
Bart N. LAMBRECHT (Ghent, Belgium)

ATHEROSCLEROSIS: THE ROLE OF INFLAMMATION
Symposium sponsored by the NSFA (Nouvelle Société Française d’Athérosclérose)

Chairpersons:
Marie-Paul JACOB (Inserm U698, Paris, France),
Christian WEBER (Medical Faculty, Aachen, Germany)

Chemokines as key regulators orchestrating vascular inflammation
Christian WEBER (Medical Faculty, Aachen, Germany)
Control of inflammation by nuclear receptor ligands
Bart STAELS (Inserm UMR 1001, Lille, France)
LRP1: control of vascular remodeling and protection from atherosclerosis
Philippe BOUCHER (UMR CNRS 72013, Strasbourg, France)

(*) IAIS members

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