We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Infection, Inflammation and Cancer which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday May 5, and will conclude after lunch on Friday May 9, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Infection, Inflammation and Cancer. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Pathogens

2. Sensing/signalling

3. Cell death

4. Metabolism

5. Genetics and epigenetics

6. Chronic inflammation, tumour microenvironment

7. Mucosal immunity

8. Immunotherapy

Keynote Speakers:

Michael Karin, University of California San Diego

Eileen White, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Invited Speakers:

Gabrielle Belz, The University of Queensland 

Xuetao Cao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Chen Dong, Westlake University

Florent Ginhoux, Gustave Roussy Hospital

Xiaoyu Hu, Tsinghua University

Nikhil Joshi, Yale University

Hui-Fern Koay, University of Melbourne

Ming Li, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Zhihua Liu, Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Xin Lu, University of Oxford

Seamus Martin, The University of Dublin

Thorsten Mempel, Harvard Medical School

Jane McKeating, University Of Oxford

Kazuyo Moro, Osaka University

Lai Guan Ng, Shanghai Immune Therapy Institute

Miguel Reina, La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Boris Reizis, NYU Langone Health

Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences

Eui-Cheol Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Geoffrey Smith, University of Oxford

Joseph Sun, University of Washington

Shao-Cong Sun, Chinese Institute for Medical Research

Chenqi Xu, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Pengyuan Yang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Di Yu, The University of Queensland

Junying Yuan, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

Shu Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in May, 2025.