Abstract

The 45th annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI)included three sessions specifically devoted to immunology. A concurrent slidesession on Thursday, March 12th moderated by Ware Branch (Salt Lake City)and Deborah Anderson (Boston) included six oral presentations. There weretwo poster sessions, Thursday and Friday, entitled ‘Infertility: AutoimmuneDisorders and IVF’ with eight poster presentations and ‘Immunology’ with10 presentations. Two breakfast sessions also highlighted immunologic topics.On Friday morning a discussion of ‘Immunotherapies of HPV InducedDiseases’ was held by Dr Ellen Sheets and Peggy Crowley-Nowick (Crowley-Nowick et al., 1998), (Boston). On Saturday morning ‘Controversies in theManagement of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss’ were discussed by ProfessorLesley Regan (London) and Dr Ware Branch (Salt Lake City). There wereseveral other immunological presentations in other sessions. Overall, six of66 (9%) of oral presentations, 25 of 576 (4.2%) of poster presentations andtwo of 20 (10%) of the breakfast sessions were devoted to immunologic topics.It was also commendable for reproductive immunologists that Dr DeborahAnderson (Boston) was awarded the Distinguished President’s Young Inves-tigator prize at this meeting for her research.

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