FOCIS 2018 Annual Meeting Highlights

FOCIS 2018 was held June 20-23, 2018 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Over 1,050 attendees from 37 countries participated.The FOCIS Annual Meeting continues to be THE meeting in translational immunology and this year was no exception!

FOCIS 2018 boasted over 352 abstracts, 50 speakers, 85 travel award recipients, 4 pre-meeting educational courses, 14 Member Society symposia, and 3 industry tutorials.

Our three keynote presenters (Ronald Germain, MD, PhD, NIAID, National Institutes of Health; Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, Director, University of California, San Francisco; Megan Sykes, MD, Columbia University), gave inspiring presentations bridging the gap between basic and clinical immunology.

This year, FOCIS awarded the C. Garrison Fathman Fellows Fund Trainee Travel Award to Sofía Russo, PhD student at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (a new FCE) in Uruguay. FOCIS also hosted the Lupus Insight Prize Award Ceremony, where the award was presented to Betty Diamond, MD (Feinstein Institute for Medical Research).

Many thanks to the FOCIS 2018 Scientific Program Committee for their time and talent in putting together a stellar lineup of topics and speakers.

Save the date! Join us in Boston at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on June 18-21, 2019 for FOCIS 2019.

February 22, 2019