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This volume features contributions from participants of the ESRF symposium on "Immunotherapy in 2020—Visions and Trends for Targeting Inflammatory Diseases" held in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany, in October 2006. The symposium presentations covered the main mechanisms of immunoregulation such as peripheral and central tolerance, epigenetic programming, immunologic memory, and regulatory networks in inflammation as well as novel experimental and clinical approaches for targeting inflammation in autoimmunity and transplantation. An important related question is how recent findings in immunological research can lead to improved diagnostics, new drugs, and better therapies. The targeting of novel pathways and immunoregulatory mechanisms, the challenge of immunologic memory for lastingly successful anti-inflammatory therapy, new approaches for adoptive T cell and polyclonal antibody therapies, and the individualization of immunomodulatory therapies are thereby topics of this volume.
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Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings 2006-4 Immunotherapy in 2020
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Immunotherapy in 2020 Visions and Trends for Targeting Inflammatory Disease A. Radbruch, H.-D. Volk, K. Asadullah, W.-D. Doecke Editors With 10 Figures
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From 22 to 24 October 2006, internationally renowned scientists from the European Union and the United States met in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany, to discuss the future of chronic inflammatory disease treatment. The title of the symposium, organized by the Ernst Schering Foundation, was “Immunotherapy in 2020—Visions and Trends for Targeting Inflammatory Diseases”. The presentations covered the main mechanisms of immunoregulation such as peripheral and central tolerance, epigenetic programming, immunologic memory, and regulatory networks in inflammation as well as novel experimental and clinical approaches for targeting inflammation in autoimmunity and transplantation. Group discussions focused on the question of how recent findings in immunological research can lead to improved diagnostics, new drugs, and better therapies. In this regard, beside novel approaches, the i