Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

The Immune System: Friend or Foe
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3468-25-00-00	There are 39 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 18/08/2025

Date and time	07.10.2025, at: 09:00 - 09.10.2025, at: 16:00
Regular seats	65
Course fee	5,040.00 kr.
Lecturers	Mogens Holst Nissen Lea Klingenberg Barfod
ECTS credits	1.70

Contact person	Mogens Holst Nissen E-mail address: mhni@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND 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), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. To understand the molecular basis of the T-cells in the immune response. 2. To describe the importance of Immune Regulation in Health and Diseases. 3. To describe examples of autoimmunity with B-cell and antibody involvement. 4. To describe involvment of B- and T-cells in neuroinflammation. 5. To understand that different parts of body can be of importance in the immune response. Content The Immune System is our biological defense system which protect us from external and internal dangers. A number of factors can affect the inflammatory response such as genes, microbiota and gender. This can cause detrimental effects if there is a compromised regulation of the immune response. The course aim to deal with and explain these challenges. Beside presentations by invites speakers, a number of students will be selected for shorter presentations. An organized poster session will be arranged and all students will be anticipated to bring a poster presenting their own research project. The meeting will take place at Konventum in Elsinore. Accommodation will be provided for the participants, but travel to Konventum will be the responsibility of the participants. For all participants attending the course there will be a separate registration for accommodation and food. Participants PhD students enrolled at the Graduate School at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen and main supervisors. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD student from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: - Immunology and Infectious Diseases - Molecular Microbiology and infection - Clinical Cancer Research Language English Form Lectures, student and poster presentations Course director Mogens Holst Nissen, professor, MD, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen. mhni@sund.ku.dk Lea Klingenberg Barfod, Professor, PhD, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen Lea Klingenberg Barfod Teachers International speakers from Europe and USA. Dates 7th October at 12:00 to 9th of October at 1:15 pm 2025 Course location Konventum, Erling Jensens Vej 1, 3000 Helsingør Registration Please register before 18th August 2025 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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