Chinese Society for Immunology

The 2015 CSI Congress has been held 14-17 December 2015 in Beijing. More than 1,800 registered attendants participated in the meeting. 34 invited world leading immunologists (19 national and 15 international) including professor Frederick Alt from Harvard University, professor Jacques Miller from Melbourne University, professor Zhijian Chen from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA, professor Ronald Germain from the National Institutes of Health, and Professor Andreas Radbruch from Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin (DRFZ) Germany gave plenary lectures. 284 immunologists presented their latest findings in over 20 symposia. In this year, CSI also organized an international young immunologist symposium, in which 11 international young immunologists from 7 countries (the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, France, India) are selected and sponsored. Furthermore, “The 5th Academic Award of CSI” was awarded and it will further encourage Chinese young immunologists to devote themselves to the development of China's immune discipline and the CSI.