Innate and adaptive immunity– New insights and therapeutic approaches to dermatological diseases

Monday 8 March 2010

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE, England

A joint meeting with Dermatology Section

Aims: The aims of the meeting are to review important new concepts in the immunopathogenesis of inflammatory skin diseases and malignancies and to discuss potential new therapeutic advances.

Objectives: At the end of the meeting the participants will be educated about innate and adaptive immunity and the how perturbation of these can result in skin diseases.

*Group booking for groups of 5 or more
(PhD students / Non-Clinical Scientists)

Registration Details:
Student Members: £5
RSM Trainee: £15
Fellow: £25
Allied Health Professional: £30
Associate: £25
Consultant/GP: £55
Group booking: £15
Student/Clinical Scientist: £20
Trainee: £35

Meeting ref: CAA03

CPD: 4 credits



1.30 pm

Registration, tea and coffee

2.00 pm

Welcome and introduction

2.05 pm

Overview of toll receptors
Professor Luke O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin

2.35 pm

Innate immunity and atopic eczema
Professor Tilo Biedermann, Tubingen, Germany

3.05 pm

The inflammasome and relevance to skin disease
Dr Helen Lachmann, Royal Free Hospital, London

3.35 pm

Overlap between innate and adaptive immunity
Professor Arne Akbar, University College London

4.05 pm

Questions and panel discussion

4.20 pm

Tea and coffee break

4.40 pm

Dendritic cells, inflammation and cancer
Professor Frank Nestle, St John's Institute of Dermatology, London

5.10 pm

The role of regulatory T cells in photocarcinogenesis
Dr Karin Loser, Munster University, Germany

5.40 pm

An update on T regs in inflammation and their possible therapeutic manipulation
Professor Mike Ehrenstein, University College London

6.10 pm

Completion of evaluation forms

6.15 pm

Toll receptors and skin cancer
Professor Gus Dalgleish, St George's Hospital, London

6.45 pm

Closing remarks and close of meeting

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