Exhibiting Companies

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13th International Congress of Immunology
Sociedade Brasileina de Imunologia
Apuiar 44
Sao Paulo
Brasil

American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
22100 Gratiot Ave.
E. Detroit, MI 48021
Booth Number: 15

Agilent Technologies
2850 Centerville Road
Wilmington, DE 19808
Booth Number: 1-2

Agilent Technologies is a leading supplier of life science technologies, providing solutions for gene expression, proteomics and informatics that optimize sensitivity and workflow productivity. Key products include: whole genome and custom microarrays, scanners; HPLC, LC/MS/MS and HPLC-Chip/MS; ion trap and TOF mass spectrometers; lab-on-a-chip products; reagents; and data analysis software.

ALPCO Diagnostics
PO Box 451
Windham, NH 03087
Booth Number: 29

ALPCO Diagnostics offers a comprehensive range of over 600 high-quality immunoassay kits to both the research and clinical laboratory communities. ALPCO is featuring kits in the areas of Allergy Research, Autoimmunity, Rheumatology, Thyroid Function, and Hepatology. Please visit us to receive our full product catalog, Immunoassay Kits Beyond the Ordinary.

AutoImmun Diagnostika GMBH/Cell Technology, Inc.\Cell Technology, Inc.
8980 Old Annapolis Road
Suite L
Columbia, MD 21045
Booth Number: 25

Cell Technology, Inc. (www.celltechnologyinc.com) is the North American Distributor of Image Analyzers (for EliSpot / Viral Plaque/ IFA assay) and test kits manufactured by AutoImmun Diagnostika, Strassberg, Germany (www.aid-diagnostika.com). Additionally, Cell Technology Inc. provides storage and distribution services for biological materials.

BD Biosciences
2350 Qume Drive
San Jose, CA 95131
Booth Number: 24

BD Biosciences, a business segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), has four business units: Clontech, Discovery Labware, Immunocytometry Systems, and Pharmingen. As one of the largest companies supporting the life sciences, BD Biosciences provides integrated, high value products and services for genomics, proteomics, drug discovery and development, and cell analysis.

Beckman Coulter
7330 Carroll Road
San Diego, CA 92121
Booth Number: 19-23

From Epitope Discovery to Patient Monitoring. Your Immune Monitoring Partner: Beckman Coulter. Come see the latest solutions from Beckman Coulter that help you innovate, simplify and automate your immune monitoring processes. From our revolutionary iTopia Epitope Discovery System and iTAg MHC Tetramers to the IC 100 cellular imaging system, Quanta and FC 500 Series flow cytometry systems, as well as the A2 MicroArray System, Beckman Coulter delivers complete Immune Monitoring solutions. Learn more by visiting us at booth #20.

Biacore, Inc.
200 Centennial Ave, Suite 100
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Booth Number: 26

Biacore supplies analytical systems that improve productivity of research and development in the life science and pharmaceutical markets. Unique data on protein interactions give insights into protein functionality, the role of proteins in normal and diseased states, and the influence of potential drug candidates. The company also provides ready-to-use solutions to determine food quality and safety. For more information, visit www.biacore.com

BioLegend, Inc.
8395 Camino Sante Fe, Suite E
San Diego, CA 92121
Booth Number: 30

At BioLegend, we are committed to providing world-class quality research reagents and outstanding value. BioLegend features antibodies/conjugates against human, mouse, and rat covering the areas of cell immunophenotyping, cytokines and chemokines, adhesion, phosphorylation, cancer research, cell-cycle analysis, and apoptosis. BioLegend reagents' applications include flow cytometry, ELISA, ELISPOT, immunoprecipitation, Western blotting, immunofluorescence microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and in vitro/in vivo functional assays. BioLegend offers a wide range of custom conjugation services to meet our customers' specific needs.

Blackwell Publishing
Booth Number: 41

Blackwell Publishing is one of the world's leading medical publishers, representing the very best in academic research, professional development and student learning. Our Immunology portfolio contains some of the leading journals in the field, including Immunological Reviews, the official journals of the British Society for Immunology: Clinical and Experimental Immunology and Immunology , and the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. Visit us at booth# 41, or browse our website at: www.blackwellimmunology.com

Bristol-Myers Squibb
345 Park Ave
New York, NY 10154
Booth Number: 37

Bristol-Myers Squibb welcomes you to Boston! We invite you to visit our exhibit and learn more about T-Cell Co-Stimulation. Bristol-Myers Squibb is a pharmaceutical and related health care products company whose mission is to extend and enhance human life.

Cellular Technology, Ltd.-CTL
10515 Carnegie Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106
Booth Number: 27

From academic roots, CTL has grown to become the world leader in ELISPOT development and automated image analysis. We provide scientifically validated ELISPOT products for all needs and budgets including the ImmunoSport Analyzer line, ImmunoSpot Software with dual color, scanning, and analysis services, and contracted research. Seeing is believing! Visit our booth and witness how CTL's products can be an asset to your laboratory. www.immunospot.com

Centocor, Inc.
200 Great Valley Parkway
Malvern, PA 19355
Booth Number 11-12

Centocor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, creates, acquires and markets biomedicines that benefit patients and the healthcare community. Centocor is dedicated to researching and developing treatments for a wide range of immune mediated inflammatory disorders (I.M.I.D.) to help physicians deliver innovative treatments to improve health and restore quality of life.

Clinical Immunology Society
555 E. Wells Street
Suite 1100
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Booth Number: Foyer

The Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) is the key inter-disciplinary organization for the field of clinical immunology with the mission to support and advance the community of immunologic scholars and physicians in education, research, and patient care. Established in 1986, CIS is devoted to fostering developments in the science and practice of clinical immunology. CIS is an international professional organization which includes 700 clinicians, investigators, and trainees. CIS has various programming objectives and is known worldwide for Educational Residential Seasonal Schools.

DakyCytomation
4850 Innovation Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Booth Number: 3-4

DakoCytomation A/S, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a leading cancer diagnostics company with a focus on personalized medicine. DakoCytomation offers systems solutions for clinical laboratories and life science researchers, providing tests and instruments so that physicians can link diagnostic results to specific therapies and optimize patient care. The privately held company has significant R&D and manufacturing activities in Denmark, UK and USA, with operations in 20 countries, distributors in 50+ countries and more than 1,300 employees. www.dakocytomation.com

Dynal Biotech ASA
Ullernchausjeen 52
N-0379 OS6
Norway
Booth Number: 5-6

Dynal Biotech is the leading supplier of basic and clinical research grade magnetic beads for human and mouse cell separation and expansion. By coupling your own antibodies, you can also isolate or deplete cells from a variety of samples. Dynabeads bridge the gap from basic research methods, through research & validation to routine applied ex-vivo immunotherapy. Clinical-grade Dynabeads are versatile tools in clinical research to separate viable cell populations. Come and see us at our booth.

EFORE (USA), Inc.
6029 W. Campus Circle Drive
Irving, TX 75063
Booth Number: 28

EFORE (USA), Inc. is the distributor for Bio-Sys Bioreader( and Biocount(r) in the United States and Canada. Bioreader's are used for counting Elispot and Colony Forming Units (CFU) as well as Plaque Assays. Bioreader@efore.com
Elispot:

• Diagnosis of genetic defects
• Allergic diseases
• Autoimmune diseases
• Transplantation
• Cancer research
• Acute inflammation, acute infectious diseases and septic shock

Elsevier
655 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10010
Booth Number: 14

Elsevier publishes journals, books and reference works across immunology. Come to the booth to: Claim conference discounts on key book titles such as Measuring Immunity or the new edition of Mucosal Immunology, Discover the benefits to authors of publishing in our prestigious journals, such as Clinical Immunology, Human Immunology or Cytokine and pick up a free sample of Trends in Immunology or Current Opinion in Immunology.

Grifols International SA
Department of Inflammation
200 Cambridge Park Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
Booth Number: 16-18

Grifols has been working for health since 1940 creating innovative products and services based on the values of ethics and responsibility. The Bioscience Division develops quality plasma-derived therapies with outstanding records of safety and efficacy. Grifols' plasma derivative production uses the most advanced technology by a highly-qualified team-- and all of this with complete traceability of the entire process. Grifols plasma derivatives are accompanied by PediGri: a commitment of completely transparent information to health professionals.

IgG America
34 Flint Street
Marblehead, MA 01445
Booth Number: 42

IgG America is a national specialty pharmacy that provides immune globulin (IgG) services. IgG America provides immune globulin, supplies, pump/pole, pharmacy clinical monitoring, and all nursing services required to administer IgG in the home and or alternate site settings. Please visit us at www.iggamerica.com or call toll-free 877-674-9700.

Immune Tolerance Network
Suite 300
4800 Montgomery Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814
Booth Number: 13

The Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) aims to accelerate the development of immune tolerance therapies in kidney, liver and islet transplantation, autoimmune diseases and allergy & asthma. The ITN solicits proposals for clinical trials and associated tolerance assay studies from academic and industry-based researchers in a year-round, open call for proposals. The ITN is jointly sponsored by the NIAID, NIDDK and JDRF. More information may be found at www.immunetolerance.org

Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.
872 West Baltimore Pike
PO Box 9
West Grove, PA 19390
Booth Number: 31

Affinity-purified secondary antibodies (many absorbed against other species for multiple labeling) (see also our new anti-mouse IgG subclass specific antibodies), anti-digoxin, anti-biotin, anti-FITC, streptavidin, and purified immunoglobulins are conjugated with fluorophores (including Cy2, Cy3, and Cy5), enzymes, Biotin-SP , colloidal gold, phycoerythrin, and allophycocyanin. Monovalen Fab fragments are available for blocking endogenous Ig and for lableing two antibodies from the same host.

Journal of Experimental Medicine
1114 First Ave
New York, NY 10021
Booth Number: 10

The Journal of Experimental Medicine provides broad coverage in all research areas encompassing the host's response to disease. The topics covered include: hematopoiesis; infectious disease; inflammation; microbial pathogenesis; oncology; stem cells; vaccines; vascular biology; and virology. With a high impact factor of 15.302 (2003 ISI^® Journal Citation Reports^®, the JEM is a leading life sciences journal in two ISI categories: Immunology and Research & Experimental Medicine. The JEM now has a free open archive of full-text, searchable PDF versions of all articles dating back to 1896, a new design, and new features including In This Issue overview and commentaries/news.

Kronus, Inc.
12554 W. Bridger St.
Suite 108
Boise, ID 83713
Booth Number: 32

KRONUS will be showcasing a variety of immunoassay test kits for use by clinical and research laboratories to aid in the differential diagnosis and management of various autoimmune diseases in the areas of Type 1 Diabetes, Celiac Disease, Addison's Disease, thyroid autoimmunity (including Grave's Disease) and Myasthenia Gravis/Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome. Please visit our exhibit to learn more about the complete line of KRONUS products!

LINCO Research, Inc.
6 Research Park Drive
Saint Charles, MO 63304
Booth Number: 33

LINCO Research is a recognized leader in the development and commercialization of multiplexed immunoassays for the Luminex xMAP platform. LINCOplex multi-analyte panels are available for cytokines/chemokines, as well as biomarkers for the study of metabolic diseases (diabetes, obesity, cardiac disease). Several specialty panels are also available for analytes related to bone, sepsis/apoptosis and skin. LINCO is also a well known provider of traditional RIA and ELISA kits for diabetes and obesity.

Luminex Corporation
12212 Technology Blvd.
Austin, TX 78727
Booth Number: 34

Luminex Corporation develops, manufactures and markets proprietary biological testing technologies, with applications throughout the life-sciences industry. This industry depends on a broad range of tests, known as "bioassays," to discover new drugs, identify new genes or simply monitor blood cholesterol levels. The experts at Luminex have developed an innovative approach to bioassays, known as xMAP technology. This groundbreaking technology, enables companies and laboratories to perform bioassays more quickly and cost-effectively than with other systems, without sacrificing accuracy.

Miltenyl Biotec, Inc.
251 Auburn Ravine Road
Suite 208
Auburn, CA 95603
Booth Number: 35

Miltenyl Biotec, manufacturer of MACS Separation Technology, supplies equipment and reagents for the immunomagnetic isolation of specific cell types, organelles, and molecules from heterogeneous samples. The CliniMACS system, approved in the European Union since December of 1997, is indicated for the purification of stem cells for the use in bone marrow transplantation.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health
4900 Seminary Road
Suite 1100
Alexandria, VA 22311
Booth Number: 9

With nationwide responsibility for improving the health and well being of all Americans, the Department of Health and Human Services, (DHHS), oversees the biomedical research programs of the National Institutes of Health, (NIH), and those of NIH's research Institutes. NIAID is the second largest of 27 Institutes and Centers of the world-renowned National Institutes of Health, DHHS, the U.S. Government's premier biomedical research institution. The 317-acre NIH campus is located in Bethesda, Maryland.

ProImmune, Inc.
Oxford BioBusiness Center
Littlemore Park
Littlemore, Oxford OX4 4SS
Booth Number: 36

ProImmune is a leading provider of products and services for monitoring the state of the immune system, including recombinant Pro5TM MHC Pentamers, custom peptide libraries and antibodies. Pro5TM MHC Pentamers can be used to evaluate T cell immunity in disease and in response to therapy, enabling investigators to accelerate their research and the discovery and development of new biopharmaceutical drugs in areas of major unmet need, such as cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmunity, and in transplantation.

SeraCare Life Sciences
1935 Avenida Deloro
Suite F
Oceanside, CA 92056
Booth Number: 38

SeraCare offers a broad range of biological based materials and services, including clinical specimens used for target identification, culture and media components, blood-derived base matrices, positive and negative control sera, and various purified proteins. Products featured will include our extensive bank of specimens obtained from apparent ADR cases, with potential use in toxicogenomic and protein identification, and viable, well-characterized cryopreserved human PBMC's.

Therakos
437 Creamery Way
Exton, PA 19341
Booth Number: 39

THERAKOS, Inc., an immune cell therapy company, is a worldwide leader in extracorporeal disease management. THERAKOS Photopheresis, including the UVAR ^® XTS ™ System and UVADEX ^® Methoxsalen Sterile Solution, IS approved for the palliative treatment of skin manifestations in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma, and is currently being studied in other immune mediated diseases.

Upstate
706 Forest Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Booth Number: 40

Upstate is a leading provider of cell signaling products and services for research and drug discovery. Products include antibodies, enzymes, siRNA and assay kits for signaling pathway analysis, as well as a complete offering of cytokine, chemokine and growth factor multiplex kits for the Luminex System.

Whatman/Schleicher & Schuell BioScience, Inc.
PO Box 2012
10 Optical Avenue
Keene, NH 03431
Booth Number: 7-8

Whatman/Schleicher & Schuell BioScience will feature the company's full line of protein array products and services, including the new S&S Two-Color Labeling and Fluorescent Detection Kit. FAST Quant protein array kits and software for multiplex cytokine quantification, FAST Slides and protein arraying kits, and a complete menu of protein arraying, processing and scanning services.

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