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Pathogenesis of Neuroimmunologic Disease
Pathogenesis of Neuroimmunologic Diseases

Directors:  Robert Darnell, The Rockefeller University, Joan Goverman, University of Washington; and Richard Ransohoff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation


Course Date: August 12 - 25, 2007. Not offered in 2008.
Online Application Form, (PDF) Deadline: April 6, 2007
Lecture Archive: 2003 | 2005 (PDF)

For advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty in neurosciences and immunology; residents in neurology, neurosurgery, or psychiatry; and for pharmaceutical industry scientists who wish to establish familiarity with this subject area. Established investigators in any of these fields will benefit from the course. Limited to 24 students.

A two-week program of lectures and discussion will describe how genetic, molecular, and cell physiologic concepts and techniques in immunology and neuroscience are applied to clarifying the pathogenesis of neurologic and psychiatric diseases thought to have an immunologic basis.

The presentations will deal both with the mechanisms underlying the disease process, and with their physiologic consequences. The sessions will be supplemented by descriptions and/or demonstrations of patients with neuroimmunologic disease and of relevant animal models.

2007 Course Faculty & Lecturers:

Scott Barnum, UAB

Amit Bar-Or, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill

Etty Benveniste, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Elizabeth Blankenhorn, Drexel University College of Medicine

Lisa Boulanger, University of California, San Diego

Moses Chao, NYU School of Medicine

Diane Griffin, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

John Griffin, Johns Hopkins University

Christine Harling-Berg, Brown University

Igor Koralnik, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Vijay Kuchroo, Harvard Medical School

Sergio Lira, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dan Littman, New York University School of Medicine

Claudia Lucchinetti, Mayo Clinic

Steven Pfeiffer, University of Connecticut Medical School

Donald Price, Johns Hopkins University

Jack Rosenbluth, N.Y.U. School of Medicine

Clifford Saper, Harvard Medical School

Steven Scherer, University of Pennsylvania

Harald Sontheimer, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Timothy Vartanian, Harvard Medical School

Angela Vincent, Oxford University


 
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