Major Dates

Early registration:
1^st June

Registration deadline:
15^th September

Course:
20^th-24^th October

European Advanced Course and Conference on Immunology, Normandy – France

 

20-24 October, 2025

Amphi 500 – Bâtiment Stewart – UFR Santé - Rouen, France

 

Organized by FOCIS Center of Excellence PAn’THER (Dir: O. Boyer & C. Abad)

under the auspices of Association de Recherche sur les Pathologies du Système Immunitaire,

Faculty of Health of the University of Rouen Normandie,

and Rouen Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine (IRIB).

 

Monday Oct 20^th Concepts and Updates in Immunology and immunological diseases I

 

    9h00-9h30               Check in

 

  9h30-10h00    Welcome and introduction

Jeremie Martinet (FCE PAn’THER, Rouen, France), course director

 

10h00-11h00   Overview of the immune system

Abul Abbas (FCE UCSF, San Francisco, USA)

 

11h00-12h00   Stem cells in hematopoiesis and immunity

Monica Guzman (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA)

 

12h00-13h00   Molecular and cellular basis of innate immunity

Bana Jabri (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)

 

13h00-14h30               Lunch break

 

14h30-15h30   Complement: from biology to therapy

Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi (HEGP, Paris, France)

 

15h30-16h30  Antigen presentation, T cell activation

Abul Abbas (FCE UCSF, San Francisco, USA)

 

16h30-17h00               Break

 

17h00-18h00  From B cells to antibodies

Massimo Gadina (NIH, Bethesda, USA)

 

Tuesday Oct 21^st  Concepts and Updates in Immunology and immunological diseases II

 

  8h30-09h30  Cytokines: from signaling pathways to targeted therapies

Massimo Gadina (NIH, Bethesda, USA)

 

09h30-10h30   Allergic diseases: pathophysiology and immunotherapy

Jeremie Martinet (FCE PAn’THER, Rouen, France)

 

10h30-11h00               Break

 

11h00-12h00  Myeloid and lymphoid somatic mutations: from mosaics to clones

Monica Guzman (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA)

 

12h00-13h00  The biologcal landscape of immunodeficiencies

Frederic Rieux-Laucat (Institut Imagine, Paris, France)

 

13h00-14h30               Lunch break

 

14h30-15h30  Mechanisms of central and peripheral immunological tolerance

Abul Abbas (FCE UCSF, San Francisco, USA)

 

15h30-16h30   Regulatory T cells: from Foxp3 to TIGIT

                                               Jane Grogan (Biogen, Boston, USA)

 

16h30-17h00               Break

 

17h00-18h00   Autoimmune diseases: pathophisiology and therapy

Jane Buckner (Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, USA)

Wednesday Oct 22^nd  Concepts and Updates in Immunology and immunological diseases III

 

  8h30-9h30    Molecular immunotherapies

Jonathan Maltzman (FCE Stanford, Palo Alto, USA)

 

  9h30-10h30  Cellular immunotherapies of cancer and non-malignant diseases

Olivier Boyer (FCE PAn’THER, Rouen, France)

 

10h30-11h00               Break

 

11h00-12h00   Immune responses in infectious diseases and vaccination

Sophie Candon (FCE PAn’THER, Rouen, France)

 

12h00-13h00   Computational approaches for deciphering immune networks

Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer (FCE Systems Immunology, Erlangen, Germany)

 

13h00-14h30              Lunch break

 

14h30-15h30  Control of immunity by the microbiota

                                               Bana Jabri (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

 

15h30-16h30   Transplant immunology: from basics to patients

Jonathan Maltzman (FCE Stanford, Palo Alto, USA)

 

16h30-17h00               Break

 

17h00-18h00   To be determined

 

Thursday Oct 23^rd  Clinical immunology conference

9h00-10h15     Autoimmune diseases

B cell targeted therapies of autoimmune diseases

Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer (FCE Systems immunology, Erlangen, Germany)

Functional Tregs pathways in inflammation

Anne Pesenacker (FCE IIT, London, UK)

Title 3

Speaker from European FCEs

 

10h15-11h15               Break

 

11h15-12h15   Young investigator selected presentations

         

12h15-14h00              Lunch break and poster viewing

 

14h00-14h30  Presidential address

Ignacio Anegon (FCE, Nantes, France), president of FOCIS

 

14h30-15h45   Tolerance and transplantation session

Three speakers from European FCEs

 

15h45-16h15               Break

 

16h15-17h30   Cancer immunology session

Three speakers from European FCEs

 

17h30-18h00  Young investigator award ceremony

 

Friday Oct 24^th  Clinical trials in immunology

 

    9h00-9h30   Lessons from drug development in autoimmunity and cancer

Jane Grogan (Biogen, Boston, USA)

  9h30-10h00   Clinical trials in immunology: from principles to practice

Pascal Joly (FCE PAn’THER, Rouen, France)

 

10h00-10h30   Break

10h30-12h30   Building your own clinical trial in immunology (upon registration)

Parallel workshops in small groups

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – NOT ALL SPEAKERS CONFIRMED