Project 460712

The sixteenth congress of the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) will take place at the Quebec City Convention Center in August 2023. Nearly 1000 participants are expected. It will be chaired by Dr. Luc Vallières, who will be assisted by two co-chairs: Drs. Alexandre Prat (University of Montreal) and Jean-Pierre Julien (Laval University). The organizing committee will include renowned researchers from across Canada - Drs. Jasna Kriz (Quebec), Nathalie Arbour (Montreal), Shannon Dunn (Toronto), Shalina Ousman (Calgary), Brian MacVicar (Vancouver) and Jessica Deslauriers (Quebec). This committee can count on the help of the Department of Molecular Medicine at Laval University and the Research Center of the CHU de Québec, which includes a dozen of laboratories specialized in neuroimmunology. The conference will focus on the latest clinical, fundamental and technological advances in neuroimmunology. Topics will include not only neuroimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, but also neurodegenerative disorders involving inflammatory processes, such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, spinal cord injury and brain cancer. Funding will come from pharmaceutical and technology companies, national and international corporations and foundations, as well as academic, municipal and government organizations. In this application, support is requested to CIHR to create an award program aiming to attract and reward the best graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (including special awards for women and minority groups). This support will help us to make this congress an incubator of innovative ideas, a powerful vehicle for teaching, knowledge transfer and networking, and a highly memorable event. It will also give great international visibility to our researchers and institutions, including CIHR.