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Full Schedule

  • Monday, June 23, 2025
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 7:30am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Systems Immunology Course (Separate Registration Required)
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2025
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 7:30am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Cancer Immunity & Immunotherapy Course (Separate Registration Required)
  • 8:00am - 11:30am East Coast USA Time
    Member Society Symposia
  • 10:00am - 10:30am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 1:30pm - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Member Society Symposia
  • 3:00pm - 3:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 5:30pm - 6:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Keynote Address
  • 6:15pm - 7:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit and Poster Opening Reception
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2025
  • 7:00am - 8:00am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee with the Committee for Inclusion and Representation
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 7:30am - 8:00am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee with the Exhibitors
  • 7:30am - 7:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)
  • 8:00am - 9:30am East Coast USA Time
    Tissue Generation and Repair
    Chair: Esen Sefik, PhD – Yale University
    Co-Chair: Sotaro Nakajima – The University of Tokyo
  • 9:30am - 10:00am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00am - 11:30am East Coast USA Time
    Engineered Immunity; Finding the Sweet Spot
    Chair: Dimitrios Laurin Wagner, MD, PhD – Charité – Berlin University of Medicine
    Co-Chair: Mogesh Sababathy – University of Putra Malaysia
  • 11:30am - 1:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Industry and Partner Sessions
  • 1:00pm - 2:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Allergy - Mechanisms to Treatments
    Chair: Stephen Adelstein, MD, PhD – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    Co-Chair: Tatsuki Abe, MD – The University of Tokyo
  • 1:00pm - 2:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Microbiome and Immunity
    Chair: Clive M. Gray, BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, ASSAf – Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University
    Co-Chair: Andrea Mastrangelo, MD – Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudoise
  • 1:00pm - 2:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Systems Immunology & AI
    Chair: Jo L. Viney, PhD – Seismic Therapeutic
    Co-Chair: Amir Abdelmoumen, MD, Msc. – UMC Utrecht
  • 2:45pm - 3:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 3:15pm - 5:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Autoimmunity and Transplantation
    Chair: Anita S. Chong, PhD – University of Chicago
    Co-Chair: Jacquelyn Nestor, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital
  • 3:15pm - 5:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Flow Cytometry Course: Day 1
  • 3:15pm - 5:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Immunogenetics
    Chair: Carrie L. Lucas, PhD – Yale University
    Co-Chair: Ryuya Edahiro – Osaka University
  • 3:15pm - 5:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Late-Breaking Abstracts
    Chair: Lucie Van Emmenis, PhD – Journal of Experimental Medicine
    Co-Chair: Ahmad Yatim, MD, PhD – The Rockefeller University
  • 5:30pm - 6:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Keynote Address
  • 6:15pm - 7:30pm East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit and Poster Reception
  • 7:30pm - 8:30pm East Coast USA Time
    FOCIS Member Reception (FOCIS Members Only)
  • Thursday, June 26, 2025
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 7:30am - 8:00am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee with Exhibitors
  • 7:30am - 7:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)
  • 8:00am - 9:30am East Coast USA Time
    Neuronal Control of Immune Response
    Chair: Jane Grogan, PhD – Biogen
  • 9:30am - 10:00am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00am - 11:30am East Coast USA Time
    JAK/STATS in Disease
    Chair: Lucy R. Wedderburn, PhD – University College London
    Co-Chair: John M. Sowerby, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • 11:45am - 11:55am East Coast USA Time
    State of FOCIS Address
  • 11:55am - 12:40pm East Coast USA Time
    Keynote Address
  • 12:40pm - 2:10pm East Coast USA Time
    Industry and Partner Sessions
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Casual Networking Lunch
  • 2:10pm - 3:55pm East Coast USA Time
    Environment Impact on Immunity & Inflammation
    Chair: Carolyn H. Baloh, MD, FAAAAI – Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard, Immune Tolerance Network
  • 2:10pm - 3:55pm East Coast USA Time
    Immune Dysregulation, Lessons from Monogenic Disease
    Chair: Tiphanie Vogel, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
    Co-Chair: Simran Samra, MSc – BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia
  • 2:10pm - 3:55pm East Coast USA Time
    Vaccines, Emerging Pathogens & Post-infectious Syndromes
    Chair: Pablo Gonzalez, PhD – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Co-Chair: Timothy A. Watkins – Yale University
  • 3:55pm - 4:25pm East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 4:25pm - 6:25pm East Coast USA Time
    Flow Cytometry Course: Day 2
  • 4:25pm - 6:25pm East Coast USA Time
    Immune Mechanisms
    Chair: Rubén D. Motrich, PhD – National University of Cordoba, CIBICI-CONICET
    Co-Chair: Margaux Verdon – INSERM U1302 - Immunology and New Concepts in Immunotherapy (INCIT)
  • 4:25pm - 6:25pm East Coast USA Time
    Immunoengineering and Therapeutics
    Chair: Jyothsna Viswesaraiah, PhD – Seismic Therapeutic
  • 4:25pm - 6:25pm East Coast USA Time
    Immuno-oncology
    Chair: Ricardo Pujol Borrell, MD, PhD – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
    Co-Chair: Harris Avgousti – Northwestern University
  • 6:30pm - 7:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Exhibit and Poster Reception
  • Friday, June 27, 2025
  • 7:00am - 3:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Registration Open
  • 8:00am - 9:30am East Coast USA Time
    Metabolic Dysfunction and Inflammation
    Chair: Deepak A. Rao, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    Co-Chair: Brandon Hilliard – University of Colorado Anschutz
  • 9:30am - 10:00am East Coast USA Time
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00am - 11:30am East Coast USA Time
    Precision Medicine for Immune Dysregulation
    Chair: Ciriaco Piccirillo, PhD – McGill University
    Co-Chair: Sarai G. De Leon Rodríguez, MD – UMAE Specialty Hospital, National Medical Center “Siglo XXI,” Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) / Graduate Program in Biological Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • 11:30am - 12:15pm East Coast USA Time
    Keynote Address
  • 12:45pm - 2:00pm East Coast USA Time
    Industry and Partner Sessions
  • 2:00pm - 3:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Alloreactivity from Transplant to Maternal-fetal Interface
    Chair: Adrienne G. Randolph, MD, MSc. – Boston Children's Hospital
  • 2:00pm - 3:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Immuno-oncology
    Chair: Galit Alter, PhD – Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University
  • 2:00pm - 3:45pm East Coast USA Time
    Ocular and Neuroinflammation
    Chair: Shibani S. Mukerji, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital