International Society for Dendritic Cell and Vaccine Science

Jan 2, 2010

Dear Scientific Advisory Committee Members:

We are writing to invite you and your group to help with a unique type of information network that will be an important part of the new web based society in dendritic cell and vaccine science.

The society aims to fill two big gaps especially for younger scientists. One gap is a lack of funds to send students and postdoctoral fellows to meetings that bridge dendritic cell and vaccine science. A second gap is the insufficient interaction of two types of scientists, those studying the immune system especially dendritic cells, and those working on vaccines, including vaccines in areas where they do not currently exist, like cancer and allergy.

The latter is where we need...
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