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Travel Grants to ECI in Dublin

The Scandinavian Society for Immunology will award a total 23 travel grants for the 7th European Congress of Immunology (ECI) in Dublin, Ireland, September 1-4, 2024. Note that there is no separate annual SSI meeting in 2024, the 2024 general assembly for SSI will be held at the ECI meeting. Each grant is for 1500 EUR.

To apply, please send SSI the abstract you plan to present at the meeting, a motivation letter, and confirmation that you are a member of one of the national societies (e.g. NSI) in good standing (member since 1.1.2024). 
Send the application to: mariti@medisin.uio.no
Deadline: April 2nd, 2024.
Abstract deadline for the congress is April 2nd.
Early bird deadline for registration is May 15th. Abstract awardees will be notified before this deadline. 

NSI Annual Meeting 2023 prizes

Congratulations to all the winners! As always the competition was tight, which is why some prizes were divided between two top candidates. Thank you all for the participation and remember to join the contest next year as well!

Best poster award:
Håvard T. Lindholm (abstract title: Retroelement decay by the exonuclease XRN1 is a viral mimicry dependency in cancer)
Runa I. Løberg (abstract title: Generation of an immunoglobulin knock-in mouse to study gluten-specific T cell – B cell collaboration in celiac disease)

Best talk award:
Christopher Forcados (talk title: Targeting carbohydrates in adenocarcinomas: STn-CAR T cells)

NSI-Bogen research award:
Rasmus Iversen

NSI research award:
Eirini C. Giannakopoulou (article title: A T cell receptor targeting a recurrent driver mutation in FLT3 mediates elimination of primary human acute myeloid leukemia in vivo)
Andreas H. Røssevold (article title: Atezolizumab plus anthracycline-based chemotherapy in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer: the randomized, double-blind phase 2b ALICE trial)

NSI Annual Meeting 2023

We are happy to announce that the 41st Annual meeting will be held Friday 24th November 2023 in Oslo.

Program highlights:

National Speakers 

Johanne Jacobsen. Dept. of Immunology, University of Oslo. T cells: drivers and suppressors of the germinal center reaction

Jan Terje Andersen. Dept. of Pharmacology, Dept. of Immunology, University of Oslo. Biology-guided engineering of versatile antibody and albumin technologies

Yenan Bryceson. Karolinska Institutet (SE), University of Bergen (NO). Regulation of lymphocyte cytotoxicity in tissues

NSI Keynote Lecture

Nelson Gekara. Stockholm University, Sweden. Role of intracellular DNA sensors in innate immune priming and genome stability

Full program: 

Abstract book: 

49th Annual Meeting and Summer School of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology

This year Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology will be held in Turku, FinlandJune 4-7, 2023.

The programme is available on the website and registration is now open: https://ssi2023.fi/registration

Hope to meet you there!

Day of Immunology 2023

The Day of Immunology will be organized Saturday 29 April. The theme of this years day of immunology is “Folkehelse“. Find the program attached below. The event will be held in Norwegian.

Date and time: 29 April, 11:00-14:30

Place: Litteraturhuset, Wergeland sal

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NSI Annual Meeting 2022 – Abstract book

NSI Annual Meeting 2022

We are happy to announce that the 40th Annual meeting will be held Friday 25th November in Oslo.

Please register and submit your abstract here: https://nettskjema.no/a/279341

Program highlights:

National Speaker
June Myklebust, Group leader, Dept. of Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Associate Professor, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
Deciphering immune cell states in the B-cell lymphoma microenvironment

NSI Keynote Lecture
Bruno Miguel de Carvalho e Silva Santos, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Gamma-delta T cells for immunotherapy of cancer

National NSI Speaker
Helena Erlandsson Harris, The Broegelmann Chair in Translational Immunology Broegelmann, Research Laboratory, University of Bergen
Revealing immune mechanisms active in juvenile arthritis by a proteomics approach 

National NSI Speaker
Peter Szodoray , B-cell Receptor Signaling Group (BCRS), Department of Immunology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital
Integration of T-helper signals with BCR signaling mediates enhanced plasma cell
differentiation of human memory B-cells through regulation of CD45 phosphatase activity

Full program: 

Day of Immunology 2022

Save the date! Day of Immunology will be organized this year in-person, on Friday 29 April. The 2022 Day of Immunology (DOI) theme is VACCINES in effort to increase awareness of the importance of immunology in the fight against infection, autoimmunity, and cancer.

Date and time: 29 April, 11:00-14:30

Place: Litteraturhuset

https://litteraturhuset.no/arrangement/immunologiens-dag-2022/

The 48th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology and Summer School 2022

This year Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology will be held in Reykjavik, IcelandJune 12-15, 2022.

The programme is available on the website and registration is now open: http://www.SSI2022.is

Hope to meet you there!

Day of Immunology 2022

Save the date! Day of Immunology will be organized this year in-person, Friday 29th April. The 2022 Day of Immunology (DOI) theme is VACCINES in effort to increase awareness of the importance of immunology in the fight against infection, autoimmunity, and cancer.

More information will come soon.


NSI Rising Stars in Immunology Seminar Series

This month we are pleased to have Dr. Danika Hill at the NSI Rising Stars in Immunology  – see seminar details below:

Speaker: Dr. Danika Hill 

“Studying germinal centre responses to vaccines in humans”

Date: Thursday, Jan 27, 2022 at 10.00.

Talk coordinates:

https://uio.zoom.us/j/65304172967?pwd=dlFwTDAwK0hxL2xxV25PbndzU3lMUT09

Meeting ID: 653 0417 2967

Passcode: 736369


NSI Annual General Assembly 2021 – Programme

Reminder: the NSI Annual General Assembly for 2021 will take place on Friday, November 26, 2021

  • 9:00 – 9:05 Welcome Address by Else Marit Inderberg (NSI President) & Petter H¨oglund (SJI Editor)
  • 9:05 – 9:30 NSI Reporting (election of New Board members, change of election committee, financials, future events)
  • 9:30 – 10:00 NSI Research Prize lecture(s)
  • 10:00 – 10:45 NSI AGM Keynote – Pan H¨ammerstr¨om (Karolinska) “Infections and immunity, COVID-19 and beyond”

Please join the virtual meeting on Zoom here: https://uio.zoom.us/j/69094667019?pwd=V3VzcVZickxxNWxyOUhoaVRtSXVnZz09

Meeting ID: 690 9466 7019
Passcode: 218634


NSI Rising Stars in Immunology Seminar Series

We are pleased to have Prof Marcus Buggert (Dec 9) at the NSI Rising Stars in Immunology  – see seminar details below:

Speaker: Prof Marcus Buggert

Title: TBA

Date: 14:00, December 9, 2021

Talk details: https://uio.zoom.us/j/67522411462?pwd=SEVwYW1IQndyeU9HaUdEWTVvQ1h5dz09

Meeting ID: 675 2241 1462
Passcode: 727934



In Memoriam

NSI sadly acknowledges the recent passing of three honorary NSI members Erik Thorsby (1938-2021),  Jacob Birger Natvig (1934-2021) Marten Harboe (1929-2021).

Erik, Jacob and Marten were internationally-recognized pioneers of medicine and basic research and helped establish the foundation of the Norwegian immunology community.

Morten Harboe (1929-2021): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sji.13054

Erik Throsby (1938-2021): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sji.13055

Jacob Birger Natvig (1934-2021): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sji.13053


NSI Patrons and Sponsors

Immunology is a collaboration between excellent academic research and innovative companies aiming to understand disease mechanisms and develop new therapeutics.

NSI greatly appreciates the support of the following academic centers and industrial partners in fostering the Norwegian immunology community.

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