A Special Symposium in Honor of Ruth and Victor Nussenzweig

FRONTIERS IN THE MOLECULAR UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM, PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY AND VACCINE DEVELOPMENT

On November 6-7, a two-day International Symposium Frontiers in the Molecular Understandings of the Complement System, Parasite Immunology, and Vaccine Development will be offered in honor of the 80th birthdays of long-term department members Ruth Nussenzweig, C.V. Starr Professor of Medical and Molecular Parasitology and Pathology, and Victor Nussenzweig, Hermann M. Biggs Professor of Preventive Medicine. The symposium celebrates the lifelong devotion of Ruth and Victor Nussenzweig to epidemiology, immunology research, and vaccine development, as the Nussenzweigs' mark their birthdays and a combined almost 90 years of service to NYU.

Longtime collaborators, friends, immunologists, and malaria specialists from across the globe will present a historical overview of the significance of the Nussenzweigs' research from the 1970s to today and will also provide reflections on friendship and the global impact of the work of Victor and Ruth Nussenzweig.

More than forty renowned speakers have been invited to participate in the two-day event, to be held in the NYU Langone Medical Center Schwartz F Auditorium. The symposium will be introduced by Vivian Lee, Vice Dean for Science, NYU Langone Medical Center, and Lee Hall, National Institutes of Health.

Among the confirmed speakers are Norma Andrews (USA), David Arnot (Scotland), Marcelo Briones (Brazil), Joe Cohen (Switzerland), Karen Day (USA), Dan Eichinger (USA), Arturo Ferreira (Chile), Beatriz Fontoura (USA), Ute Frevert (USA) , Teizo Fujita (Japan), Celia Garcia (Brazil), Irma Gigli (USA), Jorge Gonzalez (Chile), Michael Gottlieb (USA), Bob Gwadz (USA), Stephen Hoffman (USA), Taroh Kinoshita (Japan), Judith Kloetzel (Brazil), Antoniana Krettli (Brazil), Kai Matuschewski (Germany), Edward Medof (USA), Robert Menard (France), Louis Miller (USA), Silvia Montano (USA), Maria Mota (Portugal), Elizabeth Nardin (USA), Michel Rabinovitch (Brazil), Jayne Raper (USA), Laurent Renia (Singapore), Mauricio Rodrigues (Brazil), Ana Rodriguez (USA), Pedro Romero (Switzerland), David Sabatini (USA), Julio Scharfstein (Brazil), Sergio Schenkman (Brazil), Photini Sinnis (USA), Moriya Tsuji (USA), Dyann Wirth (USA), and Nobuko Yoshida (Brazil).

A schedule for the symposium can be found on the Department of Pathology website calendar. For more detailed information, please contact Photini Sinnis, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medical Parasitology and Medicine
Tel.: (212) 263 6818 or email: photini.sinnis@med.nyu.edu