Advancing Care Through Fundamental Discovery

This meeting is typically oversubscribed, meaning more applicants than spots available. In order to allow the GRC Chairs enough time to review applications, the Chairs request that you must apply by or before October 17, 2022. Decisions will be made on registrations by October 31, 2022 in order for participants to secure funding and visas before the meeting. Any applications received after October 17, 2022 will be considered late and will be placed on a wait list until after initial decisions are made.

The 2023 Gordon Research Conference on the Immunology of Fungal Infections will focus on leading advances in our mechanistic understanding of the immune response against clinically relevant fungal pathogens. This meeting – the 6th in its series – has become the must-attend venue for immunologists and medical mycologists to discuss how the immune system responds to the challenge of fungal organisms as well as how the fungal species subvert the innate and adaptive immune system. In this meeting we include focus on investigations using state of the art advances in fundamental immune processes, the rules that govern control of fungal infections and development of new strategies for immunotherapeutic control of these pathogens in humans. Other sessions will focus on important current issues regarding the development of fungal immunity, including: innate fungal recognition; pathogen-associated molecular patterns and corresponding pattern recognition receptors; adaptive immune responses and their regulation; impact of immunodeficiency and immunomodulation on fungal pathogenesis and susceptibility; fungal disease in co-infections; human immunogenetics; immunopharmacology; fungal infections in oncological and immune-mediated diseases; and vaccination strategies. We will also have a session to highlight the “next generation" of promising young investigators in the field. The interaction between COVID and fungal infections is an being recognized clinically. Thus, we will include late-breaking abstracts and talks to address COVID-fungal interactions. This meeting has become the vanguard research conference for investigators and their trainees with a common interest in fungal infections.