The President’s Message
Dear All,
It is with great pleasure that I invite you all to submit abstracts to and attend the upcoming ESID meeting to be held in the Netherlands in October.
Esther de Vries and her colleagues of the scientific committee, together with the ESID board, have come up with an exciting and timely program that covers both conventional and novel topics in basic immunology and primary immunodeficiencies.
I would like to draw your attention to a novel workshop, “Primary Immunodeficiencies beyond Europe and North-America”, i.e. in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This international workshop is one of the many novelties of the next ESID meeting.
Along these lines, we were delighted to learn that our African colleagues, under the leadership of Pr Aziz Bousfiha from Casablanca, Morocco, have organized the first international meeting of the African Society for Immunodeficiency (ASID).
The ASID is a sister society of the ESID and its first meeting will take place in Casablanca on October 30-November 1st, 2008. To foster the collaboration between ESID and ASID, it is essential that many ASID members attend the ESID meeting, …and vice versa!
I look forward to seeing you soon in the Netherlands and in Morocco.
All best wishes,
Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD
ESID, President
