Second meeting of the Spanish Immunotherapy Group GEIT (Grupo Español de Inmunoterapia), January 16, 2015, in Zaragoza, Spain

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The Spanish Immunotherapy Group (GEIT) is a thematic group created in 2013 inside the Spanish Society for Immunology (SEI), which intends to promote research and dissemination of immunotherapy and to foster collaboration between basic and clinical researchers in this field, currently with 70 members. The second scientific meeting of the GEIT was organized by Alberto Anel and Julián Pardo under the auspices of the Institute of Health Research (IIS) of Aragon and its scientific director Angel Lanas, and moderated by Julián Pardo [Centre for Biomedical Research of Aragon (CIBA), Zaragoza] and Ignacio Melero [Centre for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), Pamplona], and took place on Friday January 16, 2015. The interest in the scientific program of the session was patent, involving 100 researchers, basic and clinical. This meeting was in part intended to foster ties with other scientific societies related to immunotherapy, since the GEIT is intended as a cross-society group, not restricted to members of the Spanish Society of Immunology (SEI). For this reason, and for their scientific reputation, Carlos Martín, member of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, Ana Ortiz, belonging to the Spanish Society for Rheumatology, and Marisol Soengas, member of the Spanish Association of Bio-Enterprises, were invited as speakers. …