Chinese Society for Immunology (CSI) and British Society for Immunology (BSI) have Achieved a Collaboration Agreement
Source：CSI
2016-12-20
Prof. Xuetao Cao, President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Secretary-General of CSI, and his group have visited Oxford University on December 8-12, 2016. During the visit, Prof. Cao, on behalf of CSI, discussed and finalized an agreement of collaboration with Prof. Peter Openshaw, President of BSI.
BSI was founded in November, 1956, and was one of the earliest societies of immunology with extensive influence in the world. BSI has founded two outstanding scientific journals: “Immunology” and “Clinical and Experimental Immunology”. The main goal of BSI is to promote and support the basic and clinic researches of immunology, and to favor the health and benefits of both human beings and animals. The research area of BSI is very wide, including HIV/AIDA, diabetes, malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis, animal health, arthritis, transplantation, vaccination and infectious diseases, and et al, and has achieved a lot of breakthrough discoveries.
During the visit Prof. Cao and Prof. Peter Openshaw discussed about the collaboration opportunities of two societies at Oxford University College, the oldest college of Oxford University. They introduced the history and the current developmental prospect of two societies respectively, exchanged deeply the thoughts of the developmental prospect of international immunology research as well as the collaboration directions and patterns between CSI and BSI, both reckoned that there are great collaboration foundations and opportunities between two societies, and both agreed to collaborate in the academic exchange, researchers exchange, meeting co-organization and funding young scholars. For promoting the collaboration intention into real action as soon as possible, Prof. Cao proposed CSI to host first CSI-BSI joint immunology symposium in Shanghai in 2017, which has been supported by BSI side. Miss Jo Revill, Chief Executive of BSI, and Prof. Bo Huang, Deputy Secretary-General of CSI, also attended this meeting.
BSI was founded in November, 1956, and was one of the earliest societies of immunology with extensive influence in the world. BSI has founded two outstanding scientific journals: “Immunology” and “Clinical and Experimental Immunology”. The main goal of BSI is to promote and support the basic and clinic researches of immunology, and to favor the health and benefits of both human beings and animals. The research area of BSI is very wide, including HIV/AIDA, diabetes, malaria, pulmonary tuberculosis, animal health, arthritis, transplantation, vaccination and infectious diseases, and et al, and has achieved a lot of breakthrough discoveries.
During the visit Prof. Cao and Prof. Peter Openshaw discussed about the collaboration opportunities of two societies at Oxford University College, the oldest college of Oxford University. They introduced the history and the current developmental prospect of two societies respectively, exchanged deeply the thoughts of the developmental prospect of international immunology research as well as the collaboration directions and patterns between CSI and BSI, both reckoned that there are great collaboration foundations and opportunities between two societies, and both agreed to collaborate in the academic exchange, researchers exchange, meeting co-organization and funding young scholars. For promoting the collaboration intention into real action as soon as possible, Prof. Cao proposed CSI to host first CSI-BSI joint immunology symposium in Shanghai in 2017, which has been supported by BSI side. Miss Jo Revill, Chief Executive of BSI, and Prof. Bo Huang, Deputy Secretary-General of CSI, also attended this meeting.
