Precision medicine holds the potential to significantly enhance our ability to treat cancers, autoimmune diseases, and chronic infections with increasing specificity. Deeper understanding of how lymphocyte antigen receptors recognize antigens and generate signals is driving the creative design of chimeric and artificial receptors. Insights into the formation and maintenance of antigen-specific memory are guiding innovative approaches to cell therapeutics. Visualizing complex immunological and disease processes in vivo and modeling them in organoids are accelerating the translation of basic discoveries into clinical applications. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are unlocking hidden patterns and providing data-driven solutions to fundamental questions in lymphocyte biology. This meeting will convene leading experts and thought leaders in these pivotal areas of immunological research, with the goal of advancing our capacity to analyze, understand, and engineer lymphocyte biology for the next-generation precision medicine.

Topics covered in the symposium:

• Signaling and design of antigen receptors
• Biology and manipulation of immune memory
• Immunity in organoids and in situ
• Understanding immunity with machine learning / artificial intelligence
• Precision therapies for autoimmune diseases and cancers
• New directions in cancer immunotherapy

Hai Qi, Tsinghua University, China

Mark M. Davis, Stanford University, USA

Carola Vinuesa, The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Laura Mackay, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Lisa Butterfield, Merck, USA

Chen Dong, Westlake University, China

Bo Huang, Peking Union Medical College, China

Zhiwei Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Matteo Iannacone, San Raffaele Scientific Institute & University, Italy

Jonathan Kipnis, Washington University, USA

Vijay Kuchroo, Harvard University, USA

Wanlu Liu, Zhejiang University, China

Tak Mak, University of Toronto, Canada

Stephen Nutt, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia

Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Min Peng, Tsinghua University, China

Jiangning Song, Monash University, Australia

Stephen Schoenberger, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, USA

Xuemei Tong, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Haopeng Wang, ShanghaiTech University, China

Xiaowo Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Peng Wu, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

Ramnik Xavier, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Huji Xu, Naval Medical University, China

Meng Xu, Tsinghua University, China

Lilin Ye, Third Military Medical University, China

Di Yu, The University of Queensland, Australia

Jun Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China(Hong Kong)

Registration Deadline: February 28, 2025

Please click the Register link on top of this web page to proceed the registration process. 

Registration Fees

* Please upload valid documents for review if you are a student.

Notice

1. When making the transfer, kindly include the following note: Immunology + [Your Full Name].

2. Please complete the registration and payment before February 28, 2025. Attendees registering on-site will be provided with electronic program only.

3. The electronic invoice for the registration fee will be sent to the registered email address within 15 working days after the symposium.

4. Refunds will not be available after 18:00 on March 2, 2025.

Thank you for your interest. The Call for Abstracts of SMART Symposium in Immunology is now CLOSED.

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025

We invite submission of abstracts. Abstracts received by the deadline will be considered for a limited number of short talks, poster presentation, and inclusion in our online abstract booklet accessible to all conference participants.

Submission Guidelines:

· Submit your abstract to: immunology@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

· Each presenting author may submit one abstract only.

· Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee for quality and alignment with the symposium's scope and topics.

Important Notes:

· Acceptance of an abstract requires at least one author to register for and attend the conference to present the work.

· By submitting an abstract, you agree that, if accepted, it will be presented at the conference either as a poster or a short talk.

· Successful submissions will receive an electronic confirmation, including a reference number for future correspondence.

We look forward to your contributions!

Thank you for your interest. The Poster Session Submissions of SMART Symposium in Immunology is now CLOSED.

This conference features a poster session, with awards for outstanding posters. All abstracts submitted for poster will automatically be considered for short talks as well.

How to participate: Upload poster information to the registration website.

Poster requirements:  If selected, you will be responsible for printing the poster yourself and bring it to the conference venue to be posted in the designated area by the staff.

Poster size: Width 80 cm*Height 120cm

Deadline: January 31, 2025

We do not provide centralized accommodation for this symposium. Participants can arrange their own accommodation by contacting nearby hotels.

1. EVEN Hotels Shenzhen Guangming Cloud Park, an IHG Hotel

Address: No.98 Zhenyuan Road, Zhenmei Community, Xinhu Street, Guangming District, Shenzhen.

The hotel is 200 meters from the conference venue, which takes 3 mins by foot.

Contact: Manager Zhang 15112295990

2. Holiday Inn Express Shenzhen Guangming Cloud Park, an IHG Hotel

Address: No.68 Zhenmei Road, Guangming District, Shenzhen

The hotel is 200 meters from the conference venue, which takes 3 mins by foot.

Contact: Manager Zhang 15112295990

3. Guangming CIMC Executive Apartments Hotel

Address: CIMC Executive Apartments Hotel, Qiaoming Road, Fenghuang Street, Guangming District, Shenzhen

The hotel is 7.6 kilometers from the conference venue, which takes 22 mins by car.

Contact: Manager Lu 13826592644

Program

Official Symposium Notice (stamped)