uBICo was delighted to host the 7th Annual Meeting of the Upper Rhine Immunology (URI) Group in Basel on Friday 25th October 2024.The meeting was held in the Maurice Mueller Lecture Hall at the University of Basel's Biozentrum.

We would like to thank all of the participants who made this an exciting and enlightening event filled with interesting presentations and lively discussions.

The meeting was the latest in the series or URI group meetings that first began in Strasbourg in 2017, and as always it was a great opportunity for immunology researchers from the trinational region to meet up, present and discuss their research.

The meeting brought together 220 scientists working in all fields of immunology and as always young scientists were encouraged to present their data. Following a keynote lecture by Prof. Gennaro De Libero, 15 young researchers presented their work in a series of short oral presentations over the course of the day. A further 45 poster presentations allowed as many researchers as possible to present their work. The meeting concluded with an evening Apéro to allow attendees to further mingle and discuss their research in a more relaxed and casual setting.

Three awards were presented for best presentations. The best oral presentation award went to Ana Xavier from Basel for her presentation “Allergy attenuation can be achieved by targeting p84/p110g complexes in mast cells”. Lukas Göpfrich, from Freiburg was awarded the best poster in basic Immunology award, and Annia Perez Riveron from Strasbourg took the award for best poster in clinical Immunology

Freiburg will host the next meeting in 2025 and details will be posted here when they are available.