Main Topics
Different Faces of Immunopathology
Allergy and Asthma
- New allergen-specific therapeutic strategies
- Genetic/environment interactions in preventing allergic diseases
- Basophil activation: Current evaluation methods
- Complementary medicine in allergic disease, a fact of life: How should we respond?
- Sublingual allergen immunotherapy: Effective and safe
- Antihistamine preparations of new generation
- Risk factors in allergic children: A multiethical approach
- The impact of allergic diseases
- Atopic dermatitis
- Allergic conjunctivitis
- Allergens and bronchial obstruction
- New future treatments in allergy
- New perspectives in allergen immunotherapy
- Pollinosis in the world, old and new problems
- Recombinant allergens biological and clinical aspects
- Pre-IgE to IgE era: Four decades of clinical experience in allergic rhinitis
- How to modulate nasal inflammation in allergy
- T γ/δ cells in allergic nasal inflammation
- Nasal allergy and otitis media: Relationship and controversies
- Comorbidity in allergic rhinitis
- The ARIA Guidelines (asthma and rhinitis guidelines)
- Global Alliance against Respiratory Diseases (GARD)
- New insights into the pathophysiology of chronic urticaria
- Chemokines in asthma
- Virus infections and atopic asthma - immunologic mechanisms
- Stress and asthma
- Role of dendritic cells in asthma
- Atopy and asthma genes
- Airways remodelling in asthma
- The role of T lymphocytes in the development of late phase allergic reactions in the lungs of asthma patients
- Cytokines of TNF family and asthma
- Role of environmental factors in allergy and asthma
- Epidemiology of asthma
- Treatment of severe asthma
- Immunotherapy in allergy and asthma
- Anti-IgE therapy
- Allergen peptide immunotherapy
- Anti-IL4 and IL5 therapies
- Asthma induced by pine tree pollen
- Aspirin-induced asthma
- Asthma and sports
Basic Immunology. Focus on Clinical Application
- Transcriptional regulation of immune tolerance and reactivity
- Development of effector and regulatory T cells
- Th17 cells functions and effector mechanisms. Interaction with other cells
- T and B cell memory and immune regulation
- Natural killer cells: a first line defense
- Dendritic cell subsets and immune regulation
- Chemokines and receptors in peripheral tolerance
- Immune senescence and peripheral tolerance
- Apoptosis in the regulation of immune response
- Mechanisms of immune privilege
- The role of microRNAs in immune regulation and effector functions
- New advances in flow cytometry and cell sorting
- Thymosin peptides in the diagnostics and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases
- Immunotherapy of cancer
- Tumor antigen-specific T cell tolerance
- Cytokines and immunopathology
- Immunomodulating preparations: classification, main principles of therapeutic use
- Conjugated polymer-subunit immunogenes and vaccines
- Primary immunodeficiency diseases
- Inherited interferon deficiency
- Gastrointestinal mucosal immunopathology
- Role of immune response in sepsis and septic shock
- The immunopharmacology of infectious diseases
- Tolerating the nervous system: a delicate balance
- Neuroimmunomodulation in health and disease
- The neuroendocrine stress response in autoimmune, allergic and infectious disease susceptibility and resistance
- Physiological problems of transplantology
- Stem cells: Value for basic science and applied medicine
- Possible therapeutic use of stem cells
- Gene diagnostics & gene therapy in immunopathology
- Bioterrorism: Immunological aspects
- Pathogenesis of HIV infection
- New hope for an AIDS vaccine
- Cytokines in AIDS diagnostics and treatment
Autoimmune Diseases
- Toll-like receptors in autoimmunity
- Autoimmune epitopes: autoepitopes
- Apoptosis and SLE: in vivo and in vitro studies
- Neurotransmitters and immunology interactions
- Pathogenesis in autoimmune cardiomyopathy
- Autoimmunity predisposing genes
- Genes involved in tolerance and autoimmunity
- Role of AIRE gene and ectopic thymic expression of parenchymal antigens in development of autoimmune diseases
- Role of dendritic cells in the induction of tolerance/autoimmunity
- Carbon monoxide as an antiinflammatory mediator and HO-1 expression in autoimmunity
- Chemokines and their receptors in autoimmune diseases
- Cell adhesion molecules in arthritis and autoimmune diseases
- Food antigens and autoimmunity
- Environment versus genetics in autoimmunity
- Mast cells and autoimmunity
- Anti-receptor autoantibodies
- Natural autoimmunity
- New technologies in the detection of autoantibodies especially antigen arrays and addressable laser beads
- Challenges for the clinical autoantibody laboratory
- New challenges for autoantibody testing in the brave new world of biological therapeutics
- Autoimmunity and pregnancy
- Atherosclerosis and autoimmunity
- Rheumatoid arthritis, new therapies for autoimmune disorders
- Modern methods in diagnostics of diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes: New technologies in prevention and treatment
- Gene therapy and autoimmune disease
- Peptide therapy and autoimmune disease
- Biologics as therapies of autoimmunity
- Remodelling in systemic autoimmune diseases by differentiated stem cells or gene therapy
- Therapeutical vaccines for autoimmune diseases, T cell vaccination, drug-vaccines against myasthenia gravis, drugs-vaccines against lupus
