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The organizers cordially invite you to participate in the 7th Joint Meeting of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research and the International Cytokine Society "Cytokines 2008" to be held October 12 to 16, 2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our Conference will harness the biomedical expertise and energies of these major societies to provide a comprehensive update of recent insights into basic and clinical aspects of Cytokines in Cancer, Inflammation and Infectious Diseases. The overall theme of this Conference is Translating Science into Health, and is chosen to emphasize the integration of basic, pre-clinical, pharmaceutical and clinical research in the areas of cancer, immune modulation, inflammation and infectious diseases.

Topics to be covered will include cytokine/interferon structure and function, gene regulation, signal transduction, regulation of cell survival, microenvironment, new cytokines, as well as the multiple roles of cytokines in immunology, inflammation, angiogenesis, host defense and tumor biology. A significant part of the conference will be devoted to cytokine-based therapies in malignancy and other disorders as well as emerging therapies targeting cytokines in autoimmune, inflammatory and malignant diseases. Senior scientists, young investigators, physicians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry all stand to profit from the interactions available at this venue. We believe that this Conference - set in the beautiful cosmopolitan city of Montreal during the stunning fall display of colors – will reflect the best of current cytokine research and will provide a vital impulse for further development.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Canadian Organizing Committee
John Hiscott – McGill University
Marc Servant – Universite de Montreal
Eleanor Fish – University of Toronto
Karen Mossman – McMaster University
Michele Barry – University of Alberta
John Schader – University of British Columbia

International Advisory Committee Address
Christine Czarniecki (USA)
Thomas Decker (Austria)
Scott Durum (USA)
Takashi Fujita (Japan)
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (USA)
Otto Haller (Germany)
Raymond Kaempfer (Israel)
George Kukolj (Canada)
Santo Landolfo (Italy)
Allan Lau (China)
Warren Leonard (USA)
Alberto Mantovani (Italy)
Eliane Meurs (France)
Luke O'Neill (Ireland)
Nancy Reich (USA)
Christian Schindler (USA)
Jospef Schwarzmeier (Austria)
Michael Tovey (France)
Carl Ware (USA)
Bryan Williams (Australia)
Howard Young (USA)