Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

The Immune Response in Health and Diseases
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3468-17-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 11/08/2017

Date and time	23.08.2017, at: 00:00 - 25.08.2017, at: 16:00
Regular seats	40
Course fee	3,600.00 kr.
Lecturers	Mogens Holst Nissen
ECTS credits	2.00

Contact person	Hanne Ingvorsen E-mail address: hain@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand the basic mechanism of regulation of the immune response 2. Understand the importance of the innate and adaptive immune system and the involvement of the component in the immune response. 3. Describe fundamental mechanisms of the immune system and the importance of the different components in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. 4. Reflect on strategies to deal with inflammatory reactions in relation to diseases 5. Describe changes with age of the immune system and its implications Content Increasing amount of knowledge about how the innate and adaptive immune system on a molecular level respond to metabolic changes has been described during recent years. Furthermore it has become increasingly evident that inflammatory and autoimmune diseases constitute an important issue involving both systems and are influenced by metabolic changes. The aim of the course is to convey current basic knowledge of the immune system and its involvement inflammatory diseases by leading international scientists. Participants PhD students with interests in infectious diseases and immunological issues Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Immunology and Infectious Diseases Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Clinical Research Language English Form Lectures, poster sessions and short talks Course director Associate professor Charlotte Menné Bonefeld and Professor Mogens Holst Nissen Department of Immunology and Microbiolgy The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences cmenne@sund.ku.dk and mhni@sund.ku.dk Teachers National and International Speakers Dates 23 -25 August 2017 Course location LO-skolen, Gl Hellebækvej 70, 3000 Helsingør Denmark Registration Please register before 11 August 2017 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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