FOCIS partners with others to share translational immunology research and knowledge.
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Collaborations
FOCIS Centers of Excellence (FCEs)
Activities
Every year, the FCE Directors Meeting coincides with the FOCIS Annual Meeting. All FCE directors gather to discuss FCE business, exchange best practices, learn about new technology, and decide on joint projects. In the past, 10X Genomics, Alamar Biosciences, BD Biosciences, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Immunai, Ionpath, iRepertoire, Inc., Miltenyi Biotec, NanoString Technologies, Olink, Sony Biotechnology, STEMCELL Technologies, and Tessa Therapeutics have all presented.
These FCEs co-organized a FOCIS 2023 Member Society Symposium with a FOCIS Member Society: Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy (MIII) FCE, Mexican Translational Immunology Group FCE, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran FCE, Universidad de la Plata FCE, and Institut Pasteur.
The University of Rouen jointly hosted the FOCIS 2023 European Advanced Course in Rouen, France.
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin FCE jointly hosted the FOCIS 2018 European Advanced Course, held in Berlin, Germany.
The Institute of Immunology Czech Republic hosted the FOCIS 2017 European Advanced Course in Prague, Czechia.
Awards
The FCE Collaboration Travel Grant is a new funding opportunity for collaboration, research sharing, and scientific exchange within the FCE network.
Publication
The Clinical Immunology journal’s September 2017 edition featured the article “Standardized whole blood stimulation improves immunomonitoring of induced immune responses in multi-center study,” which described a collaborative study by seven European FCEs.
FOCIS Member Societies
Activities
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) co-sponsored and co-organized the FOCIS 2023 Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy Course held annually before the FOCIS Annual Meeting.
The Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), 2023 International Conference will host a symposium organized by FOCIS.
FOCIS Member Societies are invited to organize a symposium at the FOCIS annual meeting each year. Annual Meeting attendees may go to numerous symposia to get a perspective on interdisciplinary approaches across immunology. At the FOCIS 2023 Annual Meeting, 16 Member Society Symposia were organized by the following FOCIS Member Societies: American College of Rheumatology (ACR), American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI), American Society of Transplantation (AST), American Uveitis Society (AUS), Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI), Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI), Egyptian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (ESPAI), European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), French Society for Immunology (SFI), Indian Immunology Society (IIS), International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS), International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI), Japanese Society of Clinical Immunology (JSCI), Lupus Research Alliance (LRA), Sociedad Mexicana de Immunologia (SMI), Society of Mucosal Immunology (SMI), Spanish Society of Immunology (SEI), and The Transplantation Society (TTS).
The Italian Society of Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Allergology (SIICA) jointly hosted the FOCIS 2019 European Advanced Course in Florence, Italy.
Awards
The British Society for Immunology (BSI) and FOCIS jointly established the BSI Poster Prize, recognizing a high-quality abstract presented by a fellow or student at the FOCIS Annual Meeting.
Organizations
Activities
The International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) 2023 Congress will feature a symposium organized by FOCIS.
FOCIS is an associate member of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)
These organizations co-organized a FOCIS 2023 Member Society Symposium with a FOCIS Member Society: JDRF, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Portuguese Society for Immunology, and The Leona and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
The Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) organizes the FOCIS Big Data in Immunology workshop, held annually before the FOCIS Annual Meeting.
Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) sponsored and organized a lunch session at the FOCIS 2023 Annual Meeting.
Lupus Research Alliance sponsors and organizes an award ceremony and lunch session at the FOCIS Annual Meeting each year to announce the Lupus Insight Prize recipient.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health organized a lunch session at the FOCIS 2023 Annual Meeting.
Each issue of the Science Immunology journal features an ‘Editors’ Choice’ section where FOCIS identifies exceptional and interesting papers in immunological research and condenses the findings into brief articles.
The 2023 International Transplantation Science (ITS) Meeting, organized by The Transplantation Society (TTS), the American Society of Transplantation (AST), and the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), hosted a symposium organized by FOCIS.
Women in Transplantation (WIT), a Special Initiative of The Transplantation Society, co-sponsored and jointly organized a lunch session with the FOCIS Women in Clinical Immunology (WICI) Committee at the FOCIS 2023 Annual Meeting.
FOCIS had a session at the 2018 Latin American Association of Immunology (ALAI) and the Mexican Association of Immunology (SMI).
Awards
Together with FOCIS, the Clinical Immunology journal supports a young scientist with a travel award to present their abstract at the FOCIS Annual Meeting.
The International Congress of Immunology (IUIS)’s Gender Equality Committee and FOCIS jointly provide travel awards for young immunologists in the developing world to attend the FOCIS U.S. Advanced Course.
Industry Partners and Sponsors
Our industry partners are essential to innovation, research, and development across the full spectrum of translational immunology.
Activities
Autoimmune Association sponsored the FCE Fusion event at the FOCIS 2023 Annual Meeting.
Bristol-Myers Squibb supported the 2022 FOCIS Advanced Course in Basic and Clinical Immunology with an educational grant.
Genentech supported the 2022 FOCIS Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy Course.
Grifols supported the 2022 and 2023 FOCIS Advanced Course in Basic and Clinical Immunology, the 2022 and 2023 FOCIS Basic Immunology in Medicine Course, and the 2022 FOCIS Systems Immunology Course with an educational grant to each.
Incyte supported the 2022 FOCIS Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy Course.
Janssen Biotech, Inc. supported the 2022 FOCIS Advanced Course in Basic and Clinical Immunology, the 2022 FOCIS Basic Immunology in Medicine Course, and the 2022 FOCIS Systems Immunology Course with an educational grant to each.
Novo Nordisk supported the 2023 FOCIS Basic Immunology in Medicine Course with an educational grant.
Founded with the Scientific Education Support (SES) in 2022, the Lupus Hub is an open-access online resource, dedicated to providing balanced, credible, and up-to-date medical education in lupus. These other hubs are in development: IBD, MS, and Psoriatic Arthritis.
Beckton Dickinson China jointly hosted the inaugural FOCIS 2021 China Advanced Course in Basic and Translational Immunology.
INSEAD and Celgene collaborated with FOCIS in 2018 to offer ECA courses in France.
How to Collaborate with FOCIS
To continue to develop the field of clinical immunology, FOCIS welcomes the chance to work with FOCIS Member Societies, FCEs, and other organizations.