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Full Schedule

  • Monday, June 8, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM PST
    Clinical Immunology Course (Separate Registration Required)
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
    Multiparameter Immunophenotyping Course (Flow Cytometry) (Separate Registration Required)
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
    Systems Immunology Course - Day 1 (Separate Registration Required)
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
    Systems Immunology Course - Day 2 (Separate Registration Required)
  • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
    Member Society Symposia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM PST
    In Vivo CAR T cell Generation: An Industry View Approach (Open to All Attendees)
    Chair: Natasha Crellin, PhD – Gilead Sciences
    Co-Chair: Dimitrios Laurin Wagner, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PST
    Immune Microenvironment Interactions (Health and Disease)
    Chair: Deepak A. Rao, MD, PhD – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    Co-Chair: Jian Cui – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM PST
    Keynote Address: What is CNS Immune Privilege (Not)?
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM PST
    Exhibit and Poster Opening Reception (Authors Present)
  • Wednesday, June 10, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM PST
    Coffee with Exhibitors
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    Immune Receptors in Health and Disease
    Chair: Yannick D. Muller, MD, PhD – CHUV, Service of Immunology and Allergy
    Co-Chair: Elizabeth Schmitz – Washington University in St. Louis
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Maternal Fetal Immunology
    Chair: Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Co-Chair: Mohammad Mansoor – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Modeling Human Immune Microenvironments
    Chair: Timothy I. Tree, PhD – King's College London
    Co-Chair: Yona Lei – Yale School of Medicine
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Precision Immunology for Infectious Diseases: Mechanisms, Vaccines, and Therapeutics
    Chair: Alexis M. Kalergis, PhD – Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Co-Chair: Nikhil A. Crain, MD – University of Colorado / Children's Hospital Colorado
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM PST
    Industry and Partner Sessions
  • 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST
    Member Society Symposia
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
    Autoimmunity and Transplantation
    Chair: Rachel H. Bonami, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Co-Chair: Yasmeen S. Saad – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
    Immunogenetics
    Chair: Carrie L. Lucas, PhD – Yale University
    Co-Chair: Risa Yoshihara – The University of Tokyo
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
    Late-Breaking Abstracts
    Chair: Natalie Cain, PhD – Journal of Experimental Medicine
    Co-Chair: Leonie Müller-Jensen, MD – University of California, San Francisco
  • 6:05 PM - 6:50 PM PST
    Keynote Address - Robert. B. Nussenblatt Presidential Lecture: CD8+ Treg Cells Basic Aspects and Clinical Applications
  • 6:50 PM - 8:05 PM PST
    Exhibit and Poster Reception (authors present)
  • 8:05 PM - 9:05 PM PST
    FOCIS Member Reception (FOCIS Members Only)
  • Thursday, June 11, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM PST
    Coffee with Exhibitors
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    Rejuvenating the Immune System
    Chair: Eliane Piaggio, MD – Institut Curie
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    AI and Bioengineering for Immune System Discovery and Translation to Patient Care
    Chair: Coziana Ciurtin, PhD, FRCP – University College London
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Genetics and Personalized Immunology
    Chair: Elena Hsieh, MD – University of Texas Southwestern
    Co-Chair: Mattison P. Stojcic – BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Immune Evasion Mechanisms
    Chair: Kelly L. Brown, PhD – University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
    Co-Chair: Romaniya Zayats, PhD – BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM PST
    Industry and Partner Sessions
  • 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST
    Member Society Symposia
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    Coffee Break with Exhibitors
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
    Immune Mechanisms
    Chair: Anne M. Pesenacker, PhD – University College London
    Co-Chair: Hadeel Khammash – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
    Immunoengineering and Therapeutics
    Chair: Anna Helena Jonsson, MD, PhD – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
    Co-Chair: Adrian Albarran-Godinez, Sr. – Instituto Nacional de Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ)/ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
    Immuno-oncology
    Chair: Olivier Boyer, MD, PhD – Rouen University
    Co-Chair: Jiaming He – Yale University
  • 6:05 PM - 6:15 PM PST
    State of FOCIS
  • 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    Keynote Address: Tumour Evolution Under Immunotherapy
  • 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM PST
    Exhibit and Poster Reception (Authors Present)
  • Friday, June 12, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    New Approaches to Immune-mediated Disease
    Chair: Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer, MD – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen
    Co-Chair: Ann-Kathrin Götz – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and University Hospital Erlangen; Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM PST
    Member Society Symposia
  • 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    Artificial Intelligence in Immunology: An Industry View Approach
    Co-Chair: Magnus Fontes, PhD – Roche
    Co-Chair: Cameron MacPherson, PhD – Roche
  • 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM PST
    Keynote Address: T Cell Immunity in Tissues and Tumors