Allergy-Immuno

Scientific Topics 

Keynote Speaker

  • A Darwinian View of the Hygiene Hypothesis


Can Allergic Disease be prevented?

  • What genes predispose to the development of atopic disease?
  • Does early environmental control modify the onset of allergic disease?
  • Does early modification of the diet alter the development of atopic disease?


CONTROVERSIES: IMMUNOTHERAPY SUBCUTANEOUS VERSES SUBLINGUAL


Novel Immunomodulatory approach to allergy and autoimmune disease

  • Protective antibodies: a possible messanger of the B regulatory cells in resistance to autoimmunity
  • What is the role of anti-IgE in treatment of allergic disease?


Asthma: Where are we and where are we going?

  • Role of infections in the immunopathology of asthma
  • TLRs and NLRs in asthma pathogenesis)
  • Gene-environment interactions in asthma


Division of labor amongst T cell subsets: From Bench to Bedside

  • IPEX: Taking Foxp3 and regulatory T cells from bench to bedside and back
  • Contributions of TH17 cells to human allergic diseases


Practicum on Immunodeficiency

  • The laboratory diagnosis of immune deficiency
  • A practical guide to the differential diagnosis of hypogammaglobulinemia in the adult
  • Intravenous gammaglobulins- its many uses


CONTROVERSIES: HEMATOPEITIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN NON SCID IMMUNODEFICIENCIES


Skin as a target for allergic disease

  • Chronic idiopathic urticaria – still an autoimmune diathesis?
  • To treat or not to treat atopic dermatitis pre-emptively


Food Allergy

  • Accurate diagnosis of the food allergic patient
  • Desensitization to food allergens: Has the time arrived?


Eosinophil disorders

  • Eosinophils: The good, bad, and the ugly- an overview on the biology of the eosinophil and its contribution to host defense and disease
  • The many faces of the hypereosinophilic syndrome
  • Toward understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis