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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
>100 |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Egypt, Tunis, Algeria, Sudan, Benin, Germany, UK |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
African Society for Immunodeficiencies |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
Classification of phagocyte defects: Severe congenital neutropenia (ELANE, GFI1, HAX1, G6PC3, VPS45, etc), cyclic neutropenia, glycogen storage disease type 1b, p14 deficiency, Barth syndrome, Cohen syndrome, and Clericuzio syndrome poikiloderma with neutropenia are primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) with neutrophil function/differentiation defects, while leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD types I-III), Rac2 deficiency, β-actin deficiency, localized juvenile periodontitis, Papillon–Lefèvre syndrome, specific granule deficiency, and Shwachman–Diamond syndrome are classified in group of motility defects. Chronic granulomatous disease (CYBB, CYBA, NCF1, NCF2, NCF4) is the prototype of defects of respiratory burst. MSMD is another group of PIDs that predisposes individuals to mycobacterium. Mutations in several gene loci have been detected for MSMD, including IL-12RB1, IFNGR1, IFNGR2, IL12B, STAT1, CYBB, IRF8, and ISG15. GATA2 deficiency (Mono MAC Syndrome), pulmonary alveolar proteinosis along with AR form of IRF8 deficiency are other diseases that have been classified as phagocytes defects. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Waleed Al-Herz (Kuwait): wemh@hotmail.com
Hamoud Al-Mousa (Saudi Arabia): hamoudalmousa@kfshrc.edu.sa
Aziz Bousfiha (Morocco): aazz63@gmail.com
Isil Barlan (Turkey): isilbarlan@yahoo.com
Suleiman Al-Hammadi (UAE): Suleiman_eisa@hotmail.com
Mehdi Mohamad Adeli (Qatar): mma4qa@yahoo.com
Omar Rebhi Abuzitoun (Palestine): omara57@gmail.com
Shereen M Reda (Egypt): shereen.m.reda@gmail.com
Ridha Barbouche (Tunisia): ridha.barbouche@laposte.net
Gulnara Nasrullayeva (Azerbaijan): g.nasrullayeva@hotmail.com
Saleh Al-Mohsen (Saudi Arabia): almuhsen@ksu.edu.sa
Hasan Al-Dhekri (Saudi Arabia): haldhekri@kfshrc.edu.sa |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
I signed two MOU with Casablanca Children's Hospital and Institute Pasteur of Tunis, which hopefully lead to fruitful collaboration in the future.
Before this time, more memorandums of understanding were signed between our center and university centers from United States and Europe under the local and international laws including Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard University, Seattle Children's Hospital (University of Washington), Rockefeller University (New York), Emory University (Atlanta), Research Institute for Allergy and Immunology Lahvya (California) as well as Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University Hospitals of Geneva (Switzerland), Warsaw (Poland), Athens (Greece), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Baku (Azerbaijan), Belarus, Dusseldorf and Freiburg (Germany) and Strasbourg (France). |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
No problem. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
- I had the chance to attend all the sessions.
- My oral presentation was very welcommed by the audiences.
- Reviewing the posters with other reviewers in the poster session was one of goals.
I as the scientific committee of the meeting had the chance to talk with the reperesentatives of the other countries to depict an outline for further collaborations.
- I also signed two MOU with Casablanca Children's Hospital and Institute Pasteur of Tunis, which hopefully lead to fruitful collaboration in the future. |