Advances in the program for Immunology

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In this important speciality there will be sessions and symposia on:

–         Primary immunodeficiencies (PID)

–         Autoimmune diseases

–         Immunity and infectious diseases

–         Active immunotherapy in cancer.

–         Molecular biology:   use and perspectives in diagnosis and histocompatibility.

About these topics prestigious national and foreign experts will talk.  Among the most interesting ones we can mention:

  1. Flow cytometry in the diagnosis of PID.
  2. Role of flow cytometry in diagnostic and monitoring of Childhood  Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: state of art and future challenges
  3. Primary immunodeficiencies caused by antibody defects.
  4. Painful topics in autoimmune diseases:  diagnosis and therapeutic options.
  5. Monoclonal antibody Itolizumab (anti-CD6), a new alternative for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.
  6. Different models in the study of dengue´s infection immunology.
  7. Immunopathogenesis of the infection by influenza virus.
  8. Progression immunological markers in HIV infection.
  9. Therapeutic vaccine CIMAvax EGF in lung and prostate of epithelial origin advanced tumors.
  10. Racotumomab:  a promissing vaccine against advanced lung cancer.
  11. Advances in the clinical development of a therapeutic vaccine: NGcGM3/VSSP.
  12. Therapeutic vaccines against cancer:  Cuban experience.

Much more you will find in the final Immunology program, as well as in the papers to be exhibited in posters.