Humanitas Lectures
2011
20 apr
“Inflammatory Cytokines and Autocrine Tumor-Promoting Networks”
Prof.ssa Frances Balkwill
Centre Lead, Cancer and Inflammation,
Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
5 apr
"From genes to peace: the cystic fibrosis program between Jerusalem and Gaza"
Dr. Eitan Kerem
Department of Pediatrics and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
22 mar
"Diet and the Human Gut Microbiota. Modulation of Chronic Disease Risk"
Dr. Kieran M. Tuohy
Group leader of the Nutrition and Nutrigenomics Group
IASMA Research and Innovation Centre
Fondazione Edmund Mach in San Michele all’Adige, Trento
14 mar
"Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 in cardiovascular disease and cancer"
Prof. Gregg Semenza
Michael Armstrong Professor
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
4 nov
"Induced pluripotent stem cells: modelling primary immunodeficiencies in vitro"
Prof. Luigi D. Notarangelo
Professore di Pediatria e Patologia
Harvard Medical School, Boston
2 nov
"Translational HIV science: past successes and future"
Prof.ssa Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Direttrice dell'Unità di Regolazione delle Infezioni Retrovirali
Institute Pasteur, Parigi
28 GEN
"The cause of autoimmunity: the case of primary biliary cirrhosis"
Prof. M. Eric Gershwin
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
10 DIC
"Natural killer cells: definition, traffic and function"
Prof. Eric Vivier
DVM, PhD, Professor of Immunology
Laboratory of NK cells and Innate Immunity
Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML)
CNRS-INSERM-Université de la Méditerranée
Marseille, France
22 OTT
"Atherosclerosis is an Inflammatory Disease"
Dr. Peter Libby
Professor Departments of Pediatrics of Medicine Section of Hematology-Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine Director of Center for Cell and Gene Therapy Houston, Texas - USA
13 MAG
"Targeting VEGF: from bench to bedside"
Prof. Napoleone Ferrara
Genentech Fellow
Tumor Biology and Angiogenesis
San Francisco, California - USA
4 MAG
"NK cells, from the identification of receptors to the bedside"
Prof. Lorenzo Moretta
Direttore Scientifico Istituto Gaslini, Genova
Docente di Patologia Generale e Fisiopatologia - Universita` degli Studi di Genova
2 MAR
"Toll-like receptor signaling in hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cells: role in cancer"
Prof. Giorgio Trinchieri
Director Cancer and Inflammation Program
Chief Laboratory of Experimental Immunology
Center for Cancer Research - National Cancer Institute
Frederick, Maryland - USA
6 DIC
"On some unresolved problems in immunology"
Prof. Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Institute of Experimental Immunology
Department of Pathology, University of Zurich, University Hospital
17 OTT
"Confronting SARS with avian flu"
Prof. Malik Peiris
Department of Microbiology
University of Hong Kong
Queen Mary Hospital
19 DIC
"Interleukin-1: from fever to treatment of systemic inflammation and autoimmunity"
Prof. Charles Dinarello
Department of Medicine - University of Colorado at Denver
and Health Sciences Center - Denver, USA