International Association of Immunology Societies

International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)
legal form	International non-governmental organization
founding	May 5, 1969 in Bruges Belgium
founder	10 National Immunology Societies
Seat	Kurfürstendamm 71, Berlin Germany
purpose	Promotion of international research in immunology
Chair	Faith Osier (2019-2022) Kenya
Managing directors	Rosely Kemp (2019-2022) New Zealand
Members	60,000
Website	https://iuis.org/

The International Association of Immunology Societies (IUIS) , a member of the International Science Council (ISC) , is the international umbrella organization of national immunology societies in 83 states and four integral territorial sub-organizations. These include the European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) , Federation of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) , Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) and the Latin American Association of Immunology (ALAI) .

At an international immunology congress on May 5, 1969 in Bruges ( Belgium ), the representatives of 10 national immunology societies founded the IUIS and this is also the place and date of the Union's founding. The national founding societies were the American Association of Immunologists , the British Society for Immunology , the Canadian Society for Immunology , the Dutch Society for Immunology , the German Society for Immunology , the Israeli Immunological Society , the Polish Society of Immunology , the Scandinavian Society for Immunology , the Société Française d'immunologie and the Yugoslav Immunological Society . The representatives from Australia (Australian Society for Immunology) and Switzerland (Society of Allergy and Immunology) who were also present at this conference did not have the authority of their organizations to also participate as official founding members, but supported the project without reservation. Later, by decision of the council, they were also counted among the founding members

structure

The society is divided into eleven commissions with defined assigned tasks:

• The Clinical Immunology Committee (CIC) conducts research into clinical immunology and organizes training courses on treatments for infectious diseases , immunodeficiencies , autoimmunity , etc.
• The Education Committee (EDU) specializes in running courses in developing countries.
• The Gender Equality and Career Development Committee (GEC) advocates the interests of women and men in the immunology sector and promotes their professional careers.
• The Inborn Errors of Immunity Committee (IEI) consists of experts in all aspects of primary immunodeficiency
• The Immunotherapy Committee (ITH) is developing clinical applications for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases with a special focus in developing countries.
• The Nomenclature Committee (NOM) their mission is to establish a universal and consistent nomenclature for molecules and cells of the immune system.
• The Publications Committee (PUB) has four main objectives, including promoting IUIS communications and supporting publications related to IUIS meetings.
• One of the goals of the Quality Assessment and Standardization Committee (QAS) is to contribute review articles for the IUIS journal while retaining its own valid findings.
• The Vaccine Committee (VAC) deals with all aspects of vaccines.
• The Veterinary Immunology Committee (VIC) promotes and coordinates the interests of the international community in veterinary immunology
• The Executive Committee .

Congresses

Every three years the IUIS organizes an international congress with one of the members of the national societies. The ICI meeting in 2016 was held in Melbourne ( Australia instead). The last one in Beijing ( China ) in 2019 . Cape Town will host South Africa in 2022 .

Web links

• Powerpoint presentation of the IUIS , 16 pages, PDF
• http://www.iuis.org/
• http://www.frontiersin.org/immunology
• Archival papers of Bernhard Cinader, founder and first president of the society from 1966-1969, are held at University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services

International Congresses & Presidents

No.	year	ICI conference location		president	Country	from ... to
17th	2022	Cape Town	South Africa
17th	2019	Beijing	People's Republic of China	Faith Osier	Kenya	2019-2022
16.	2016	Melbourne	Australia	Alberto Mantovani	Italy	2016-2019
15th	2013	Milan	Italy	Jorge Kalil	Brazil	2013-2016
14th	2010	Kobe	Japan	Stefan HE businessman	Germany	2010-2013
13.	2007	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Peter C. Doherty	Australia	2007-2010
12.	2004	Montreal	Canada	Rolf Zinkernagel	Switzerland	2004-2007
11.	2001	Stockholm	Sweden	Philippa Marrack	United Kingdom	2001-2004
10.	1998	New Delhi	India	Fritz Melchers	Switzerland	1998-2001
9.	1995	San Francisco	United States	Tomio Tada	Japan	1995-1998
8th.	1992	Budapest	Hungary	Henry Metzger	France	1992-1995
7th	1988	Berlin	Germany	Jacob B. Natvig	Denmark	1989-1992
6th	1986	Toronto	Canada	Gustav Nossal	Australia	1986-1989
5.	1983	Kyoto	Japan	Alain L. de Weck	Switzerland	1983-1986
4th	1980	Paris	France	Baruj Benacerraf	United States	1980-1983
3.	1977	Sydney	Australia	Michael Sela	Poland Israel	1977-1980
2.	1974	Brighton	England	John Humphrey	United Kingdom	1974-1977
1.	1971	Washington, DC	United States	Bernard Cinader	Canada	1971-1974
Fd.	1969	Brugge	Belgium

proof

1. ^ Executive Committee. IUIS, accessed April 24, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Corporate Sponsors. IUIS, accessed April 17, 2020 . 
3. ^ Regional Federations. IUIS, accessed April 17, 2020 . 
4. ^ History. IUIS, accessed April 17, 2020 . 
5. ^ Committees. IUIS, accessed April 17, 2020 . 
6. ↑ 18th International Congress of Immunoöogy. IUIS, accessed April 17, 2020 . 
7. ↑ History of the IUIs Retrieved 05/11/2015.