The 32nd Annual Meeting of German Society of Immunology - 26-29 September 2001

The 32nd Annual Meeting of German Society of Immunology (DGfi) was held in Dresden on 26 - 29 September 2001. The philosophy of the meeting was 'to throw some light on the progress that had been made in transferring basic immunological research into clinical application'. More than 500 abstracts were submitted. The majority of abstracts were devoted to basic immunology but a large number dealt with clinical aspects of immunology. The organisers invited several distinguished speakers from USA but many of them did not come to Dresden due to the tragic events that occurred in America on September 11th. Here we present meeting highlights, which were mostly devoted to therapeutic aspects of immunology.