Lectures Confirmed

	CLEMENS VON PIRQUET HONORARY LECTURE Bryan L. Martin Ohio, USA The human microbiome in allergy & immunology

	ALAIN DE WECK HONORARY LECTURE Kian Fan Chung London, UK Towards defining endo-phenotypes of asthma

	LEONARD NOON and JOHN FREEMAN HONORARY LECTURE Sami Bahna Shreveport, USA Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

	WILLIAM FRANKLAND HONORARY LECTURE Rudolf Valenta Vienna, Austria From molecular diagnosis to treatment and prevention of house dust mite allergy

	KIMISHIGE ISHIZAKA KEYNOTE LECTURE Cezmi Akdis SIAF, University Zurich, Switzerland The epithelial barrier hypothesis for the development of allergic and autoimmune diseases
KEYNOTE LECTURE Giovanni Passalacqua Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Dept, Specialty School in Respiratory Diseases, University of Genoa, Italy Allergen immunotherapy: looking forward

KEYNOTE LECTURE Todor A. Popov Sofia, Bulgaria Objective measures of airway assessment and monitoring

KEYNOTE LECTURE David Stukus Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA Strategies for prevention of food allergy development

KEYNOTE LECTURE ON MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY Mübeccel Akdis Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), Davos, Switzerland The mechanisms of inducing and breaking immune tolerance
PLENARY LECTURES Kian Fan Chung Imperial College, London, UK; Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute Personalised medicine for severe asthma Rudolf Valenta Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology & Immunology, Medical University Vienna, Austria New aspects of birch pollen allergy Bryan L. Martin The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA Asthma COPD overlap Todor A. Popov University Hospital “Sv. Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria Evolution of allergic rhinitis management: a spiral of sophistication Sami Bahna Allergy & Immunology Section, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, USA Should peanut be banned from schools? David Stukus Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA Management of the nut allergic individual: it's not one size fits all Giovanni Passalacqua Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Dept, Specialty School in Respiratory Diseases, University of Genoa, Italy Biologicals for severe asthma in real life Kamal Maurice Hanna Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Anaphylaxis: Phenotypes and endotypes Elias Toubi Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Seasonal exacerbation of asthma is frequently associated with recurrent episodes of acute urticarial Kamal Maurice Hanna Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Biomarkers and biologics for asthma management Cezmi Akdis SIAF, University Zurich, Switzerland Mechanisms of how microbiome regulates inflammation Sergey Deyev Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Rational design of immunotargeted preparations Mübeccel Akdis Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), Davos, Switzerland A novel B cell subset that induces angiogenesis Elias Toubi Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Semaphorin 3A is highly beneficial in treating bronchial asthma: reducing both inflammation and angiogenesis Sergey Deyev Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia “The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts”: Hybrid nanostructures for nanotheranostics

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