EAACI Congress 2025
BackEAACI-COURSE - EAACI Course on immunology update : selected topics in basic and translational immunology
Friday 13 Jun, 12:00 PM -
18:00 PM Glasgow, United Kingdom
Meeting Academy M2
EAACI COURSE
Objectives
This course will provide a review of select basic immunology topics, with an emphasis on recent advances and issues that are relevant to the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases.
The course is designed for practicing clinicians, trainees, and individuals in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies who are involved in the development of therapies for immunological diseases.
The goals of the course are to:
- Understand the major advances in basic immunology that are most relevant to human diseases, and the unresolved issues and future challenges.
- Discuss the fundamental mechanisms underlying immunologic diseases including autoimmune and allergic disorders.
- Identify the basic principles underlying therapeutic modulation of the immune system, and the mechanisms of action of the major classes of immune modulators
12:00
Introduction to the immune system
12:30
Innate immunity
13:30
Coffee break
13:45
Antigen presentation, T cell activation
14:45
CD4 T cell subsets
15:45
Coffee break
16:15
B cells and antibodies
17:00
Immune tolerance and regulation