Overview

While medical science has made significant inroads into the management of human disease, many chronic human diseases are the result of an assault by one's own immune system on a specific organ, tissue or the host. This year's Dartmouth Life Science Symposium will illuminate how an immune system that has gone astray contributes to the diseases diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis, cancer, bacterial infection and multiple sclerosis. The cells, molecules and signals that are responsible for the relentless destruction of the host by the immune system will be revealed, and strategies that have emerged to thwart this immune attack will be discussed.

Admission is free, and refreshments and lunch will be provided. We welcome the attendance of all faculty, physicians, researchers, post-docs, graduate students and undergraduate students from Dartmouth and other universities or institutes in New England. Interested community members are also welcome. Juniors and seniors who may be interested in graduate studies in biology, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, genetics, pharmacology/toxicology, immunology, microbiology, chemistry, neuroscience or medicine here at Dartmouth are especially encouraged to attend.