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🎨Vote to select the Best of IFPPP11th Paintings.
♥️The 11th International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients (IFPPP)
📍Campinas, Saõ Paulo, Brazil🇧🇷
🗓️November 2025
🔊 After 10 years of successful IFPPP festivals, for the 11th year, more than hundreds of paintings are received from more than 15 countries.
🖋️ The selected 15 paintings per age group now entered the final competition.
⏳We would like to invite you to contribute to selecting the top paintings by scoring the paintings via this link.
🗓️ Deadline: 10th August
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✨Happy 2025 Day of Immunology✨
🔹This year's theme is:
Brain and Immunity: Immunological Insights into Neurological Disorders
✨We are proud to announce the recent publication of PsychoNeuroImmunology books in line with 2025 theme of the Day of Immunology, affiliated to Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN).
✨The newly published comprehensive books, PsychoNeuroImmunology (volumes 1 & 2), highlights the role of immune system in psychoneurological disease, mental states, stress, and related conditions.
▫️Editors: Rezaei N., Yazdanpanah N.
▫️Number of pages: 857, 941
▫️Publication date: January 2025
🔹More information:
Vol 1: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73061-0
Vol 2: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-72079-6
Follow us for latest news on our books, articles, activities, and collaboration opportunities.
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✨The 19th International Congress of Immunology✨
🔻August 17-22, 2025
🔻Vienna, Austria
✨Just One Week Until The Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
✨More information
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☀️USERN Summer Research Week 2024☀️
🔹September 14-18, 2024
🔹In-person and Virtual
🔸Research Methodology and Writing Research Proposal, Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔸Scientific Writing, Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔸Basic Statistics, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Introduction to Reference Manager Applications, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Statistical Analysis with SPSS, Dr. MirSaeed Yekaninejad and Dr. Mahdi Yaseri
🔸Statistical Analysis with R, Dr. MirSaeed Yekaninejad and Dr. Mahdi Yaseri
🔸Systematic Review, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, umbrella review of meta-analyses, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Journal Selection, Submission, and Peer Review, Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔸Editing Books with International Publishers, Dr. Nima Rezaei
⭕️Registration and more information
☀️Make this summer count...
Contact us:
research.usern@gmail.com
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✨International Masterclass on Inborn Errors of Immunity: Interdisciplinary Diagnostic Approach
🔹USERN, in collaboration with Isil Berat Barlan Academy, proudly organize this event, to be held in Izmir, Turkey, on October 25-27, 2024.
🔹The focus of the event is Inborn errors of Immunity.
🔹There is a unique chance for students and young researchers to present their cases and discuss challenges in diagnosis and treatment.
🔹Due to the limited available seats, applications and submitted abstracts will be evaluated and the selected delegates will be informed via email for further steps. Please note that only case reports on Inborn Errors of Immunity could be accepted for presentation.
⭕️Deadline for application: August 15th, 2024
⭕️More information, registration, and abstract submission:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5UwuPZF-WeZTKyIwkqmPcDEqg9Kbmc8iMaABi0j1O57_0Ag/viewform?usp=sf_link
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✨Vote to Select the Best IFPPP10 Paintings✨
♥️The 10th International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients (IFPPP)
🇧🇬Plovdiv, Bulgaria
🗓November 2024
🔸We are proud to informs that for the tenth consecutive year, IFPPP has received hundreds of valuable paintings created by young artists.
🔸The reviewing/screening committee has already selected 15 paintings per age group for the final evaluation.
🔸We would like to invite you to devote a few minutes of your time to review and score this paintings, to help us finding the young winners.
♥️Please support this initiative and join us in this stunning journey via below link:
♥️https://forms.gle/ddWa7jE3sdB6KKX47
✨You can Also find the previous IFPPP winners here.
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✨World Immunology Day 2024✨
🔸We invite all international societies to join us again this year to honor the Day of Immunology on April 29.
🔸This year's theme is “Immunity Through the Ages: Navigating the Science of Aging and Immunology.”
🔹More information
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🔻15th International Congress on Immunodeficiency Diseases (ICID)
🎧 In-person Congress
🗓 April 25-26, 2024
🔹Organized by the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID)
🔸Abstract Submission Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0RfyefOaiNpZNZovg2OB_mmKygAOzFQZzky2P7PQC8MmBkg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link
⏳Deadline for Registration:
March 25, 2024
📩Contact Us:
info.rcidcong@gmail.com
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COVID-19 in patients with anemia and haematological malignancies: risk factors, clinical guidelines, and emerging therapeutic approaches
New Paper by NIIMA Interest Group
🔹the present study aimed to delineate the relationship between hematological diseases and malignancies and the novel COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
🔹Besides, effective treatment options for patients with hematological diseases and malignancies were further explored to address this epidemic and its variants.
▫️Source: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12964-023-01316-9
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✨Happy International Day of Women and Girl in Science✨
➡️ Based on UN's Women commission, science is one of the fields that nutrients the potency of courage for both women and men, which will provide peace and progress.
⭕️ It’s USERN’s honor that Women had a glittered opportunity to be awarded through this 8 years of USERN Prize journey.
•Medical Sciences
- Lucina Qazi Uddin (USA) 2017
- Eugenia Morselli (Chile) 2019
- Sara De Biasi (Italy) 2022
- Hao Chen (China) 2023
• Physical and Chemical Sciences
- Maria-Magdalena Titirici (UK) 2017
- Giulia Grancini (Switzerland/Italy) 2019
- Mirjana Dimitrievska (Switzerland) 2022
• Biological Sciences:
- Valentina Cauda (Italy) 2017
- Jianing Fu (USA) 2022
• Social Sciences
- Lianne Schamaal (Australia) 2020
- Katrien Fransen (Belgium) 2023
🔴 As a scientific community, it’s our mission to accelerate the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening.
#Women_in_Science
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✨The Third USERN Talk School ✨
The USERN Talk School event will be held for the third year with the aim of strengthening speech and effective scientific presentation skills in 3 days.
⏱ Date: February 13, 14, 15, 2024
📍Location: Tehran Children's Medical Center Hospital
⭕️ The event will be held in person and online.
⏳ Registration deadline: Friday, February 9th
✅All participants will receive a certificate.
✨Workshops:
🔆Presentation Skills by Dr. Azim Mirzazadeh
🔆Scientific Presentation for the General Audience by Ehsan Mehrjou
🔆Storytelling and Writing Scenario by Dr. Hamidreza Namazi
🔆Slide Making and Creativity by Dr. Pejman Norouzi
🔆Presentation Structure and Methods by Dr. Kamal Basiri
🔆Presentation Practice
⭕️For more information and to register, click here.
Email: talk.usern@gmail.com
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The 21st Biennial Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID 2024)
🔹Theme: Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: An Expanding Universe
📍Marseille, France
🗓October 16-19, 2024
⭕️For more information, please click/tap here.
⭕️For abstract submission, please click/tap here. Deadline: May 2024
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🔬Thank you for your participation in the 6th USERN Lab techniques school. Due to your requests, USERN proudly announce two new workshops:
✨Interpreting NGS Results
✨ Primer Design
📝For registration and more details for participants, please click here.
❌Registration deadline: 31st Jan 2024
⏳Limited seats
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💢This is to announce that students and junior researchers who are interested in joining the NIIMA interest group are supposed to apply for the USERN Research Internship. Delegates who successfully pass this program will be able to request for NIIMA membership.
💢There won't be any call for application for NIIMA membership in 2024. NIIMA membership will be available for graduates of the USERN Research Internship program upon their request.
❌less than 12 hours left...
🌀Registration and more information:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqQ1WT5_Q99Sk4CB2X_TVB9RO2ksoCh3zhzR7xx5b7SXh2fg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Contact us:
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⭕️The most important call for application in 2024⭕️
✨Join the USERN family✨
🔸Schools, Workshops, Meetings:
- Skill Development Program
- Laboratory Techniques School
- Talk School
- Research Week
- InnoWeek (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshops)
🔸Internships and Programs:
- USERN Internship at the Executive Committee (To improve your soft skills in an international environment)
- USERN Internship for Laboratory Techniques (To learn research laboratory skills)
- USERN Internship for Scientific Presentation "Miniature Talk" (To improve your presentation skills)
- USERN Research Internship (To learn scientific writing skills)
- USERN Internship for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (To learn how to develop a business plan)
- E-Learning Program (Virtual learning platform)
🔸Tours
🔸Congress, Symposiums, Schools
⭕️more information and application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqQ1WT5_Q99Sk4CB2X_TVB9RO2ksoCh3zhzR7xx5b7SXh2fg/viewform?usp=sf_link
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South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS)
🔻Seferihisar, Turkiye
🔻October 24-27, 2025
✨Participation at the school is free of charge.
✨Some selected participants will get free accommodation and partial coverage of travel costs.
🔻Application deadline: June 15th
✨ Don't miss the opportunity and apply now!
More information and registration: https://www.ki.si/en/seeis2025/
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✨2025 Day of Immunology✨
Theme: Brain and Immunity: Immunological Insights into Neurological Disorders
April 29, 2025
Key topics of webinar include:
-The immune system’s role in neurological disease development and recovery
-Immunological mechanisms in multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions
-The influence of environmental factors such as infections and gut microbiota
More information and registration:
https://immunohub.iuis.org/iuis/2024/webinars/4152027
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🥇The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded jointly to
▫️Victor Ambros
▫️Gary Ruvkun
for
✨"the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation."
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🎨Online exhibition of the top 40 art works of the "10th International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients"
🏆Awarding ceremony and announcement of winners will be held on:
🗓November 8th, 2024
🇧🇬Plovdiv, Bulgaria
📢We are pleased to invite you to organize an exhibition of these art works in galleries, cultural and educational centers, hospitals, institutes, etc.
🕰You can download the images from this link, print and display them at your center for any duration between August 10 and November 10. Please send photos of the exhibition to the following email, with the location and time of the exhibition:
ifppp.heart@gmail.com
♥️Thanks to all supporters of the 10th International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients.
♥️Help the Health with Art to Give a Smile to a Beating Heart...
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#ifppp2024
#10th_IFPPP
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🧬International Congress on Immunology and Molecular Allergology🧬
🔻Moscow, Russia
🔻November 28-29, 2024
🔹More information, registration, and abstract submission:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz-PnKYUJVf3TlPLTwqweiBHg5Et9IdSbKy_TDokxsyYFwNg/viewform?usp=sf_link
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✨Early registration for the 9th International USERN Congress is open now✨
Organized by:
-Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN)
-Medical University of Plovdiv
-Strategic Research and Innovation Program for Development of MU-Plovdiv
🔅Exceptional opportunity to present research activities in the form of oral or posters presentations in the presence of the world's top scientists.
🔅The scientific focus of this year's congress is "Bringing Science to Life" and young researchers from all fields of science can apply to present their research activities at the 2024 USERN Congress by submitting abstracts of articles.
⏳Deadline for sending abstracts of articles: 1 August 2024
🗓 Dates: 8, 9 and 10 November 2024
🔹For registration and more information, click here.
🔹For abstract submission, click here.
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📧usern.congress2024@gmail.com
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✨🏆 USERN Prize 2024 🏆✨
The USERN Prize 2024 is an exceptional opportunity for young scientists under the age of 40 in five scientific fields to participate in a prestigious competition recognizing remarkable achievements in multidisciplinary science. The fields include:
1. Formal sciences
2. Physical and Chemical sciences
3. Biological sciences
4. Medical sciences
5. Social sciences
🌍 Applications are open to all young scientists worldwide!
To be considered, please ensure that you complete and update your USERN Profile and Application form by June 1st.
📌 Submit your abstract through the following link:
http://usern.org/prize/
Don't miss this incredible opportunity to showcase your scientific accomplishments and make a lasting impact in your field!
#USERNPrize
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USERN Spring School on Inborn Errors of Immunity
🔹May 28-31, 2024
🔹Paris, France
✨Opportunity to learn about the newest updates on Inborn Errors of Immunity, from the world's experts in this field!
✨All students and junior researchers who are working on Inborn Errors of Immunity studies can apply.
✨Abstract submission for a limited oral presentations is open.
✅Don't miss the opportunity and step strong in your academic career path...
⭕️Applications deadline: March 10, 2024
⭕️Application and more information:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnfFs5Qrb0TBzWn28wDUazALsz3DB8QXkEwchvyuW5QP6lFA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Contact us:
Email: schools.usern@gmail.com
Telegram: @usern_contact
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The Impact of miR-155-5p on Myotube Differentiation: Elucidating Molecular Targets in Skeletal Muscle Disorders
New Paper by NIIMA Interest Group
🔹An emerging property of muscle miRNAs is the cooperative regulation of transcriptional and epitranscriptional events controlling muscle phenotype.
🔹Through in silico and in vitro approaches, authors identify distinct transcriptional profiles induced by miR-155-5p in muscle cells.
🔹Analysis indicated that miR-155 regulates a set of transcripts, including Aldh1l, Nek2, Bub1b, Ramp3, Slc16a4, Plce1, Dync1i1, and Nr1h3.
▫️Source: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25031777
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❄️USERN Winter Research Week 2024
🔹February 02-07, 2024
🔹In-person and Virtual
🔸Scientific Writing, Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔸Journal Selection, Submission, and Peer Review, Dr. Nima Rezaei
🔸Basic Statistics, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Systematic Review, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Meta-analysis, Dr. Payam Kabiri
🔸Editing Books with International Publishers, Dr. Nima Rezaei
⭕️Registration and more information
❄️Make this winter count...
Contact us:
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The 10th International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients (IFPPP)
♥️The main goal of Health and Art (HEART) group is to maintain and improve the mental health of sick kids, all over the world.
https://usern.tums.ac.ir/SiteContent/Show/heart
🎨All children and adolescents with the age of less than 18, with a history of hospital admission or past medical illness are invited to the festival.
🗓️November 2024
📍Plovdiv, Bulgaria
❌Deadline for submission of artworks: June 9th, 2024
🎨High-resolution scan copy of paintings should be sent to:
ifppp.heart@gmail.com
🎨You can also submit the paintings via this link (click/tap here).
♥️"Bringing Smile to A Beating Heart"
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Human inherited CCR2 deficiency underlies progressive polycystic lung disease
✨Contribution of the USERN Advisory Board and USERN Members to a New Discovery✨
🌀Article Highlights:
🔹Inherited human CCR2 deficiency impairs pulmonary recruitment of monocytes.
🔹Insufficient attraction of monocytes reduces the counts of alveolar macrophages.
🔹Reduced counts of human alveolar macrophages underlie chronic lung disease.
🔹Inherited human CCR2 deficiency also impairs protective immunity to mycobacteria.
🌀Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.11.036
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📌 The 6th USERN Laboratory Techniques School
🧬 Principles of Molecular Tests (DNA Extraction & PCR)
🧬 Fundamentals of Cell Culture
🧬 Flow Cytometry
🧬 Western Blot
🧬 Bioinformatics
🧬 Lab Animal Techniques
📆 28th Jan- 7th Feb
✅ Registration and more information:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTjHZdLZOgbsmjwpZ-PSiFkfmueo9VK0re_ikBYqxURdBT6g/viewform?usp=sf_link
⭕️Limited seats⭕️
Contact us:
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EAACI Research and Clinical Fellowships 2024
🔹Application is open now!
🔹The deadline to apply is 15 January 2024 (23:59 CET)
🌀Application and more information for clinical and research fellowships.
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Call for Applications: EAACI PhARF Award 2024
🔸The objective of PhARF (Phadia Allergy Research Forum) is to encourage progress in allergy research, specifically through the EAACI PhARF Award, which is aimed at providing Research Grant funding to outstanding younger Investigators.
🔸Deadline for application/nomination: January 31, 2024
🔸More information and application.
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