Conference on international travel medicine

Conference on international travel medicine

by the injection of the appropriate antigen but also by the injection of autologous lymphoid cells that had been engineered to produce the right antib...

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by the injection of the appropriate antigen but also by the injection of autologous lymphoid cells that had been engineered to produce the right antibody. These are exciting times for a scientist to be alive, and it seems quite

possible that we shall learn how to treat cancer biologically as well as by cutting it out with a knife or blasting it with x-rays or drenching it and the rest of the body of the patient with cytotoxic drugs.

The authors are supported by g r ~ s to The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal ~ancer~Hospital from the Cancer Research Campaign and the Medical Research Council.

Reference list available upon request.

Meeting Announcements

Conference on International Travel

Medicine. April 5-8, 1988. Zurich, Switzerland. Contact: Interconvention AG, c/o Swissair, CH-8058 ZurichAirport, Switzerland. Scientific Inquiries: Robert Steffen, M.D., Impfzentrum ISPM, Sumatrastrasse 30, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland. An open symposium on Chemically

Induced Autoimmune Disease, sponsored by the immunotoxicology Discussion Group, will be held at the Holiday Inn Royal Crown in Rockville, Maryland on 25-26 April, 1988. The organizers are Dr. Noel R. Rose, Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Norman

Editors: Herman Friedman Mario R. Escobar Noel R. Rose

Talal, University of Texas, San Antonio. Topics to be discussed include Basic Mechanisms of Autoimmunity; Immunopathological Mechanisms; Immunotoxic Models; and Drug-Induced and Chemical-Induced Autoimmune Diseases in Humans. Contact: Ms. Gina D' Angelis, Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101 Fourth Annual Clinical Virology Symposium & annual meeting Pan American Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis. May 22-25, 1988. Clearwater Beach, FL. Contact: Dr. Steven

Specter or Dr. Gerald Lancz, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 12901 North 30th Street, Box 10, Tampa, Florida 33612, Telephone: (813) 974-3281. Fourth International Congress of Cell Biology. August 14-19, 1988. Montreal, Canada. Contact: Congress Secretariat, Fourth International Congress of Cell Biology, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6 Attn: K. Charbonneau, Congress Manager. Tel: (613) 993-9009.

Advlanry Board: Joseph A. Bellanti, M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine; John L. Fahny, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine; Anthony S. Fanci, M.D., National Institutes of Health; James D. Folds, Ph.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Robert A. Good, Ph.D., M.D., University of South Florida College of Medicine; Ronald B. Herberman, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center; Gerald M. Penn, M.D., Ph.D., Grant Hospital; Brace S. Rabin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical School; John L. Sever, M.D., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health; Steven Specter, Ph.D., University of South Florida College of Medicine; Andor Szentivanyi, M.D., University of South Florida College of Medicine; Norman Talal, M.D., University of Texas Health Science Center; Gabriel Virella, M.D., Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina. General Information

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