Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaContact : Ricardo PUJOL-BORRELL e-mail: ricardo.pujol@uab.es, Professor of ImmunologyEva M. MARTINEZ-CÁCERES e-mail: emmartinez.germanstrias@gencat.cat
Keywords: Allergy, hypersensitivity, vasculitis, evasion mechanisms, opportunistic infection, AIDS, IVIG, HSTC.
Aims of “Mechanisms of Immunopathology”: To understand the immune response in the main pathological conditions
1. Mechanisms of Immunopathology;
2. Immune Response to infectious agents, tumours and allogeneic transplantation;
3. Hypersensitivity as cause of disease
4. Immunodeficiencies;
5. HIV: pathogenesis and the quest for a vaccine
6. Autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases
7. The immune response in transplantation
8. Tumour immunology and immunotherapy
9. Main tools used in experimental immunopathology
10. Seminars of paper interpretation focusing on the above topics
Speakers:
Immunology Teaching Staff from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Hospital Vall d’Hebron and Germans Trias i Pujol. Other speakers will be invited based on their excellence.
The seminars will consist in live discussion of articles covering the main topics of the course, with the tutors' guidance.
Learning outcomes:
The students should be able at the of the course of interpreting the main mechanisms of immune-mediated diseases and situations.i.e., hypersensitivity, Immunodeficiencies including AIDs and autoimmunity in the graft rejection, and response to tumours. The students will be familiar with the main types of immunotherapy.
Updated on April 9, 2019
