Large basic, translational or clinical meetings tend to provide separate sessions for clinicians and basic scientists that do not appeal to the other group. Yet basic scientists question whether their models are really relevant to the emerging clinical questions, and clinical attendees express the desire to understand basic immunology a little better to have a better foundation to care for their patients. Knowing the clinical implications of basic work and the basic questions raised by clinical work is critically useful, and often overlooked at other meetings. The goal of ASE is to bridge the gap between clinical practice, outstanding clinical questions, clinical research, and basic science research.

Key approaches to bridging the research/clinical practice gap:

• A smaller meeting with only 1 session at a time catering to basic and clinical attendees
• Basic science sessions are followed by a commentary from a clinical scientist to integrate clinical implications and relevance of the topic for patient care
• Clinical science sessions are followed by a commentary from a basic scientist to distill the clinical questions that should be worked on at the bench or animal room
• Increased time built-in for in-depth Q&A and discussion after each talk and each session
• A fun ice-breaking/speed-networking/cocktail-drinking session for clinicians, basic scientists, and industry members to get to know each other in small, rapidly-rotating groups over specific topic discussions

ASE reinvents the scientific conference in a way that will help your research, be it clinical or basic, attain greater impact and significance by identifying the most important clinical questions, unveiling the latest technologies that can help you achieve your goals, and allowing you to find the best collaborations.

Special attention is also devoted to young investigators and trainees, with plenty of presentation and critical feedback time, and lots of networking time to get introduced to the leaders in the field.

Full program available online - over 90 abstracts being presented!
Program highlights include: a keynote from Ignacio Sanz, MD entitled "New Approaches to Targeting B Cell Subsets in Human Autoimmune Disease", plus two entire sessions on antibodies.

View all of the abstracts that will be presented at ASE, as well as the special topic symposia and keynote presentation.