FREE
for Members
Primary Immunodeficiencies: Past, Present, Future
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF) is dedicated to basic and clinical research, physician education, patient support, and public awareness. This one-day conference was developed in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences.
Program
8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome, Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD
8:40 Keynote Speaker: Max Cooper, MD, "Evolution of Immunology-Where is the Future?"
9:00 Session I—"Looking Back, Where Were We?"
Moderators: Martha Eibl, MD, Lloyd Mayer, MD
9:05 Richard Stiehm, "The Early Years of Immunodeficiency"
9:25 Walter Hitzig, MD, "Phenotypes of Primary Immunodeficiency"
9:45 Mary Ellen Conley, MD, "Genotypes of Primary Immunodeficiency"
10:05 Richard Gatti, MD, "Recollections of Bob Good and His Dedication to Translational Research: Treating IDD According to Mutation Types"
10:25 Raif Geha, MD, "Fred Rosen: A Fifty Year Journey in Primary Immunodeficiency"
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Session II—"Where Are We Now?"
Moderators: Raif Geha, MD, Fritz Melchers, PhD
11:05 Fred Alt, PhD, "The DNA Double Strand Break Response: Protection from Immunodeficiency and Cancer"
11:25 Alain Fischer, MD, PhD, "Lessons from the Study of Natural Mutants of the Adaptive Immune System"
11:45 Luigi Notarangelo, MD, "Intracellular Protein Trafficking, Granules Formation and the Pathophysiology of Congenital Neutropenias"
12:05 pm Hans Ochs, MD, "Immune Disregulation; the Ying and Yang of Regulatory T Cells"
12:25 Chaim Roifman, MD, "Can We Finally Choose; Mismatched Related vs. Matched Unrelated Donors for Transplantation of SCID"
12:45 Lunch
1:45 A Special Address: Irving Weissman, MD, PhD, "The Big Picture: Politics and Science"
2:05 Session III—"Looking Ahead- Where Are We Going?"
Moderators: Talal Chatila, MD, Steve Holland, MD, Richard O'Reilly, MD
2:10 Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD "Inborn Errors of Immunity of Infection: The Rule Rather Than the Exception"
2:30 Amos Etzioni, MD, "Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency (LAD) III, from Adhesion Molecular to Intracellular Signaling"
2:50 Rebecca Buckley, MD, "Superior Survival and Immune Reconstitution in SCID when Transplanted in the First 3.5 Months of Life"
3:10 Jennifer Puck, MD, "Translating Research Advances- Detecting SCID Early Through Newborn Screening"
3:30 Alessandro Aiuti, MD, PhD, "Current Challenges and Future Perspectives for Gene Therapy"
3:50 Coffee Break
4:05 Session IV—"Patients Perspective: Clinical Applications We Have Learned from the Past 20 Years"
Moderators: Helen Chapel, MD Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, PhD
4:10 Mel Berger, MD, PhD, "Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapy…What Lies Ahead"
4:30 Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, PhD, "Making Sense of Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID)"
4:50 Tom Fleisher, MD, "Opportunities and Support for Young Investigators Working in Primary Immunodeficiencies"
5:10 Jordan Orange, MD, PhD, "Spec