Cancer Immunology

Introduction on cancer immunology and immunotherapy.- Inflammatory and innate immune cells in cancer microenvironment and progression.- Role of innate immunity in cancers and antitumor response.- Role of B cells in anti tumor response.- The role of exhaustion in tumor-induced T cell dysfunction in patients with cancer.- Regulatory T cells and Th17 cells in the immunosuppressive tumor network.- Role of cytokines in tumor immunity and immune tolerance to cancers.- Role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in cancers.- The role of Fas and Fas-ligand in cancers.- MHC class I molecules and cancer progression: Lessons learned from preclinical tumor models.- Role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in cancer.- Cancer immunoediting: immunosurveillance, immuneequilibrium, and immune escape.- Apoptosis, autophagy and necroptosis in Cancer.- Prognostic value of innate and adaptive immunity in cancers.- Epigenetics and Micro RNAs in cancers .- Immunogenetics of cancers.- Immunodeficiencies and cancers.- Immunosenescence and cancers.- Nutrition, immunity and cancers.- Allergies and cancers.- Cancer immunology of transmissible cancers.- Systems biology and systems immunology of cancer.- Principles of immunological diagnostic tests for cancers.- Flow cytometry in cancer immunotherapy: applications, analysis, quality control and future.- Immunohistochemistry of cancers.- Immunology and immunotherapy of graft versus host disease.   

Nima Rezaei gained his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2002 and subsequently obtained an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and a PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. He also undertook a short-term fellowship of Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Newcastle General Hospital. Since 2010, Dr. Rezaei has worked at the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He is now the Vice Dean of International Affairs, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences; and co-founder and Deputy President of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the Founding President of Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Dr. Rezaei has already been the director of more than 100 research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. He is an editorial assistant or board member for more than 40 international journals. He has edited more than 10 books, has presented more than 500 lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 700 articles in international scientific journals.