Success for FOCIS goes South: First FOCIS Workshop in Latin America

FCE and regional researchers brought together in Santiago de Chile during May 15th-17th to present current scenarios and challenges in immunology.

The Workshop “FOCIS goes South: Advances in Translational and Clinical Immunology” was organized by the FCE Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and gathered scientists from USA, France, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico, among others.

Read the success of ‘FOCIS goes south: advances in translational and clinical immunology’ in the Immunotherapy journal, VOL. 9, NO. 10

The inauguration ceremony of the Workshop was presided by the President of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Dr. Ignacio Sánchez, the Minister of Economy, Natalia Piergentili, Senator Guido Girardi, the Director of Energy, Science, Technology and Innovation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gabriel Rodríguez, FOCIS Multi-national FCE Chair, Dr.Ignacio Anegon, the Director of the Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy (MIII), Dr. Alexis Kalergis, Associate Researcher at MIII and one of the organizers of the Meeting, Dr. Pablo González.