13-16 October 2012, Shanghai

Conference Chairs

Shuiping Jiang, Conference Founder and President, UK

Xuetao Cao, Second Military Medical University, China

George Fu Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Zhongmin Liu, Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, China
Gang Pei, Tongji University, China
Jingwu Zang, GSK R&D China, China

Conference International Chairs

Jeffrey Bluestone, University of California at San Francisco, USA

Chen Dong, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Diane Mathis, Harvard University, USA

Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, UK

Shimon Sakaguchi, Kyoto University, Japan

Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA

Harald von Boehmer, Harvard University, USA

Confirmed International Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

Diane Mathis, Harvard University, USA
Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Plenary Speakers:

Abul Abbas, University of California at San Francisco, USA

Bruce Blazar, University of Minnesota, USA

Jeffrey Bluestone, University of California at San Francisco, USA

Daniel Campbell, Benaroya Research Institute, USA
Harvey Cantor, Harvard University, USA
Xuetao Cao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China

Daniel Cua, Merck Research Laboratory, USA

Chen Dong, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Michael Dustin, New York University, USA
Gerard Eberl, Pasteur Institute, France
Gary Goretzky, University of Pennsylvania, USA

David Hafler, Yale University, USA

Christopher Hunter, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Osaka University, Japan
Lars Klareskog, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Ludger Klein, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

Vijay Kuchroo, Harvard University, USA

Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Xiaoxia Li, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA
Yong-Jun Liu, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Tak Mak, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael McHeyzer-Williams, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Kingston Mills, Trinity College, Ireland
Anne O'Garra, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, UK

Dhavalkumar Patel, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland

Drew Pardoll, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

William Paul, National Institutes of Health, USA

Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, UK

Maria Grazia Roncarolo, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy

Shimon Sakaguchi, Kyoto University, Japan

Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA

Hergen Spits, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dale Umetsu, Harvard University, USA

Carola Vinuesa, Australia National University, Australia

Harald von Boehmer, Harvard University, USA

Casey Weaver, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Jingwu Zang, GSK R&D China, China

Steven Ziegler, Benaroya Research Institute, USA

Conference Special Speakers: Journal Editorial Policies and Process

Ursula Weiss, Senior Editor, Nature
Kristen Mueller, Associate Editor, Science
Zoltan Fehervari, Senior Editor, Nature Immunology