9th Joint Meeting ISICR-ICS Cytokines & Interferons: From the ...
9th Joint Meeting ISICR-ICS Cytokines & Interferons: From the ...
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2012 - Geneva<br />
Cem Gabay (<strong>ICS</strong>) presented an update on <strong>the</strong> planning for<br />
<strong>the</strong> 10th <strong>Joint</strong> <strong>ISICR</strong>/<strong>ICS</strong> Conference which will take place<br />
in Geneva, Switzerland on September 11-15, 2012. The<br />
scientific <strong>the</strong>me for this conference is “<strong>Cytokines</strong>: <strong>From</strong><br />
Basic Biology to Clinical Application.” The Organizing<br />
Committee has been established with Cem Gabay as <strong>the</strong><br />
Chair and Amanda Proudfoot as Co-Chair. They are<br />
contemplating disease-oriented symposia with Industry<br />
sponsorship and <strong>the</strong>re was discussion of ideas for possible<br />
satellite symposia. MCI has been hired as <strong>the</strong> Conference<br />
Secretariate and meetings committee members suggested<br />
that <strong>the</strong> Organizers compare MCI’s costs of establishing a<br />
new website vs using <strong>the</strong> website that has been used for<br />
past meetings.<br />
The current working budget is based on expense estimates<br />
of 620,000 Swiss Francs and income estimates of 634,500<br />
Swiss Francs (current exchange rate is Swiss Franc vs US<br />
Dollar = 1:1). The organizers are requesting seed funds of<br />
$20,000 from each society (<strong>ICS</strong> and <strong>ISICR</strong>).<br />
FEBRUARY 2011 I VOLUME 18 I NO. 1 29
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