Chinese Society for Immunology

The 2014 CSI Congress has been held 18-21 October 2014 in Jinan, Shandong Province. 2,267 registered attendants participated in the meeting. 26 invited world leading immunologists (11 national and 15 international) including Professor Wayne M. Yokoyama from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor Michael Karin from University of California, San Diego, Professor Matthew Freeman from University of Oxford, Professor Reinhold E. Schmidt from Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and Professor Bernard Malissen from Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy gave plenary lectures. In addition, 291 immunologists presented their latest findings in over 20 symposia. In this year, CSI organized an international young immunologist symposium, in which 10 CSI Young Immunologist Award recipients presented and discussed their findings with each other as well as with Chinese young scholars.