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The organizers cordially invite you to participate in the Joint Annual Meeting of the International Cytokine Society, the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research and the Society of Leukocyte Biology to be held October 17 to 21, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. Our Conference will harness the biomedical expertise and energies of these major societies to provide a comprehensive update of recent insights into basic and clinical aspects of Cytokines in Cancer, Inflammation and Infectious Diseases. The overall theme of this Conference is Cellular and Cytokine Interactions in Health and Disease, and is chosen to emphasize the integration of basic, pre-clinical, pharmaceutical and clinical research in the areas of cancer, immune modulation, inflammation and infectious diseases.

Topics to be covered will include cytokine/interferon structure and function, gene regulation, signal transduction, regulation of cell survival, microenvironment, new cytokines, as well as the multiple roles of cytokines in immunology, inflammation, angiogenesis, host defense and tumor biology. A significant part of the conference will be devoted to cytokine-based therapies in malignancy and other disorders as well as emerging therapies targeting cytokines in autoimmune, inflammatory and malignant diseases. Senior scientists, young investigators, physicians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry all stand to profit from the interactions available at this venue. We believe that this Conference - set in the beautiful historic city of Lisbon will reflect the best of current cytokine research and will provide a vital impulse for further development.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Executive committee
Luis Montaner - Wistar Institute USA
Scott K. Durum - National Cancer Institute USA
Michael Tovey - Inserm, France

International Program Committee
Alberto Mantovani - Humanitas, Italy
Giorgio Trinchieri - National Cancer Institute, USA
Thomas Decker - University of Vienna, Austria
Ana Costa-Pereira - Imperial College, London
David Levy - NYU, USA

Local organizers
Michael Parkhouse - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Rui Victorino - Hospital Santa Maria, Portugal