The ESID 2018 meeting in Lisbon will encompass the very latest exciting perspectives bridging basic and clinical research across primary immunodeficiency and related infection, autoimmunity and inflammation.
We invite you to explore some highlights below and the full programme.
Program Overview
PLENARY SESSIONS
OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE
Primary immunodeficiencies - clinical and immunological insights from experiments of nature
Jean-Laurent Casanova (USA)
PIDs IN NEWBORNS AND INFANTS
Deciphering innate immunity in toddlers
Capucine Picard (France)
SCID in 2018. New challenges
Alain Fischer (France)
Early-presenting autoinflammatory disorders
Carine Wouters (Belgium)
PIDs IN CHILDREN
Hypomorphic mutations in PID - from biology to clinics
Luigi Notarangelo (USA)
Novelties in gene therapy: Further paving the way
Marina Cavazzana (France)
HSCT - new techniques
Franco Locatelli (Italy)
PIDs IN ADULTS
Haploinsufficiency and super-enhancers
Nichola Cooper (UK)
Infectious diseases in adults. What have we learned from PIDs?
Steve Holland (USA)
HSCT for PIDs in adults
Emma Morris (UK)
IMMUNOSENESCENCE AND PIDs
What do telomeres tell us?
Inderjeet Dokal (UK)
Radiosensitivity
Jean-Pierre de Villartay (France)
PID, premature aging and premature senescence
Stephan Ehl (Germany)
SELECTED LATE-BREAKING ORAL PRESENTATIONS
PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE
Isabelle Meyts (Belgium)
Parallel Sessions
EBV immunity
IAPIDS session - access to PID worldwide
Innate sensing of virus
Clinical and therapy
PID and genetics
Cancer and immunity
Novel treatments in PID
Mechanisms of tolerance
Immunology dysmistified
Thymic immunity
VEO-IBD
Metabolism and immunity
What did medicine learn from DADA2
Skin immunity and PIDs
What did medicine learn from NF-KB deficiencies?
Lessons from stat biology
Autophagy and the immune response
Syndromic PIDs
Transition medicine models
How I treat... in PID
Basic immunology
MTE - Meet the Expert Sessions
Herpetic encephalitis in children
Monogenic susceptibility to fungal infections
PID - diagnosis by pattern recognition
Eczema and hyper-IgE. What else?
Gene discovery in congenital immune disorders yields precision medicine treatments
MSMD - where are we?
SCID newborn screening
Infectious and other clues to the diagnosis of PID
Atypical HLH
Working Party Sessions
WP 1 - Clinical
WP 2 - Genetics
WP 3 - Registry
WP 4 - ESID JUNIOR interactive workshop: "Expect the unexpected"
WP 5 - PID care & development
WP 6 - Inborn errors
Workshop
NEW HORIZONS IN FLOW CYTOMETRY
Special Sessions
ESID JUNIOR/Educational WP session
Joint ESID HISTIOCYTE SOCIETY session
Vulnerable patients - joint session ESID/INGID/IPOPI
EDUCATIONAL DAY TOPICS
The first day of the meeting will be dedicated to our highly acclaimed educational programme with further sessions throughout the meeting with world-class teachers bringing high quality educational lectures and interactive sessions which will be of great benefit to students, trainees and established clinicians and scientists with practical and relevant up-date current insights into pathogenesis, recognition and management of immune disorders.
Topic will include:
Lymphoproliferation in PIDs
Chronic infections in PIDs
Next generation sequencing - Where do we stand, what is next?
Primary Immunodeficiencies and NF-KB signalling pathway
What is CVID?
Complement deficiencies
Pearls and pitfalls of genetic testing in PIDs
Treatment options for PIDs
Update on HLH