Speakers

Mat J.A.P. Daemen, M.D. Ph.D.
Scientific Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht
Professor and Head of Pathology, University of Maastricht
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
"Mediators of Atherosclerotic Plaque Rupture"

Patrick Hwu, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Melanoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
"Activation of Innate Immunity to Trigger a Strong Antitumor T-cell Response"

Dennis L. Kasper, M.D.
Director, Channing Laboratory
William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard
"The Yin and Yang of the Intestinal Microflora in Health and Disease"

Diane Mathis, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Head, Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, Joslin Diabetes Center
Harvard
"APECED and AIRE: initials of interest"

Patrick L. McGeer, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research
University of British Columbia
"Neuroinflammation and Degenerative Neurological Diseases"

Howard L. Weiner, M.D.
Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology
Center for Neurologic Diseases
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center
"A shift from adaptive to innate immunity in the progression of multiple sclerosis"

William F.C. Rigby, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School
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"A Tale of Two TNFs: Novel genetic mechanisms prevent inflammatory disease"

Lloyd H. Kasper, M.D.
Professor of Medicine (Neurology) and of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School
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Dartmouth Medicine: Art of Medicine

Randolph J. Noelle, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School
Immunology
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