Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

The immune system affects nearly every aspect of health and disease. Chronic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases are an incredible burden to Canadian public health; great breakthroughs in cancer care have recently come from targeting the immune system; and the COVID-19 pandemic has of course highlighted the crucial importance of vaccines. For 35 years, the Canadian Society of Immunology (CSI) has supported the community of immunology researchers across the country, and has fostered the next generation of students and postdoctoral fellows. The CSI annual meeting gives these trainees a platform to present their work in progress, while also exposing them to lectures from, and discussions with, renowned researchers in Canada and abroad. In doing so, CSI hopes to build the careers of those who will make the cutting edge discoveries of tomorrow and who will make important contributions both to Canadian public health outcomes as well as to the Canadian research infrastructure.