Articles from the 15th International Congress of Immunology Meeting (ICI 2013) in Milan, Italy

The First International Congress in Immunology was held in 1971 in Washington, DC, USA. Since that initial gathering of worldwide immunologists we have evolved considerably as the articles selected from presentations at the 15th ICI and compiled here attest. By 1971, the two main systems involved in adaptive immunity had been described and the two major types of lymphocytes, B cells and T cells, recognized by their surface expression of immunoglobulin molecules and theta antigen had just been described. Years later I was riding in a bus at an immunology meeting that was headed to the conference banquet. My companion in the seat next to me happen to mention that he was present at the 1st ICI, and I replied that I was also there. My seatmate then went on to say that everyone that he spoke to at that inaugural meeting felt that the major mysteries in immunology had been uncovered and now we just needed to dot the I’s and cross the T’s. Needless to say that we’ve all come a long way in the past 42 years, and great strides have been made in delineating the characteristics of the immune system, as exemplified here in this compilation of contributions stemming from the 15th ICI.

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