Kobe, Japan

The Education Committee provided 10,000USD to support students from the developing world to attend the International Congress.
The recipients and their submitted abstracts are:

• Abdelmagid Nada, from Sudan, studying at Karolinska Institute
  Abstract 1366: “Genetic regulation of innate immune responses after nerve injury”
• Gavriliuc Oana, from Roumania, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes, Timisoara
  Abstract 3343: “Mesenchymal stem cells – linking immunomodulation with pancreatic regeneration in Type 1 diabetes”
• Hadis Usriansyah, from Indonesia, studying at the Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School
  Abstract 2035: “Retinoic acid dependent gut homing is essential for oral tolerance mediated by regulatory T cells”
• Luo Feifei, from Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China
  Abstract 1549: “Long-term therapeutic effect of Toll-like receptor-1 and 2 agonist on lung cancer by reciprocal control of effector and regulatory T-cell function”
• Mizbani Amir, from Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Iran
  Abstract 1125: “Recombinant Leishmania tarentolae expressing the A2 virulence gene as a novel candidate vaccine against visceral leishmaniasis”
• Mollik Ariful Haque, from Peoples Integrated Alliance, Bangladesh
  Abstract 67: “Medicinal plants are popularly used for common veterinary diseases by the inhabitants of Gopalganj district in Bangladesh”
• Ali Riyasat, from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India
  Abstract 2033: “Humoral and mucosal immune response to immunodominant peptides of YscF antigen of Yersinia pestis: An Immunoprophylactic approach to plague infection”
• Reyes Paz, from Universidad Andres Bello, Chili
  Abstract 843: “Altered microenvironment from lupic mice affects the development of systemic lupus erythematosus”
• Wei Hairong, from Institute of Immunology, China
  Abstract 1746: “Inhibitory receptor NKG2A tempers natural killer cell activity in active chronic hepatitis B patients”
• Allie Nasiema, from Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, South Africa
  Abstract 2400: “Tumour Necrosis Factor Alpha produced by macrophages and neutrophils is required for initial pulmonary protective innate immune responses but is dispensable for protective immunity during persistent M. tuberculosis infection”