This conference took place on 25-27 October 2008 in
Beijing, China
Conference Honorary Chairman
Prof HUANG
Jiefu, Vice Minister of Health of China
Conference Chairs
Shuiping Jiang, King's College London, UK
Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA
Herman Waldmann, University of Oxford,
UK George Fu Gao, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Conference
Co-Chairs
Jeffrey Bluestone,
University of California at San Francisco, USA
Xuetao Cao, Second Military Medical University, China
Wei He, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Jingwu
Zang, GlaxoSmithKline R&D China, China
International Speakers
Shimon Sakaguchi (Keynote Speaker), Kyoto University, Japan
Bruce Blazar, University of
Minnesota, USA
Jeffrey
Bluestone, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Xuetao Cao, Second Military Medical
University, China
Wanjun Chen, National Institutes of Health, USA
Tyler J Curiel, University of Texas Health Sciences
Center, USA
Terry
Delovitch, Robarts Research Institute, Canada
Matthias
Edinger, University Regensbury, Germany C. Garrison Fathman, Stanford University, USA
Richard Flavell, Yale University, USA
Yang-Xin Fu,
University of Chicago, USA
David Hafler, Harvard University, USA
Bruce Hall, University of New South Wales, Australia
Catherine Hawrylowicz,
King's College London, UK
Wei
He, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Ludger Klein, University of Munich, Germany
Vipin Kumar, Torrey Pines Institute
for Molecular Studies, USA
Megan Levings, University of British Columbia, Canada
Yong-Jun Liu, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Thomas Malek,
University of Miami, USA
Joost van Meerwijk, INSERM, France
Kingston H.G. Mills,
Trinity College, Ireland
Ciriaco Piccirillo, McGill University, Canada
Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, UK
Maria Grazia Roncarolo,
San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy
Alexander Rudensky, University of Washington, USA
Ethan Shevach, National Institutes
of Health, USA
Dale
Umetsu, Harvard University, USA
Hans-Dieter Volk, Charite, Humboldt University, Germany
Harald von Boehmer, Harvard
University, USA
Herman Waldmann, University of Oxford, UK
Jingwu Zang, GlaxoSmithKline
R&D China, China
Li
Zhang, University of Toronto, Canada
Weiping Zou, University of Michigan, USA
Conference Special Speakers
Dr John Foley, Associate
Editor of Science Signaling
Dr Clare Thomas, Senior Editor of Nature Medicine
Dr Christine Borowski, Senior Editor
of Nature Immunology
Dr
Lucy Bird, Acting Chief Editor of Nature Review Immunology