We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Immune Tolerance: Mechanisms, Diseases and Therapeutics  which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 26, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday October 29, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Immune Tolerance. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. T-Cell tolerance

2. Humoral tolerance

3. Autoimmune diseases

4. Microbiota and mucosal tolerance

5. Tumor immune tolerance

6. Allograft tolerance

7. Fetal immune tolerance 

8. Infectious tolerance

Keynote Speakers:

Rafi Ahmed, Emory University

Diane Mathis, Harvard Medical School

Invited Speakers:

Paola Bonfanti, The Francis Crick Institute

Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet

Chrysothemis Brown, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ana Cumano, Institut Pasteur

Fotini Gounari, Mayo Clinic

Luís Graça, Universidade de Lisboa

Ping-Chih Ho, University of Lausanne

Axel Kallies, The University of Melbourne

Thomas Korn, Technical University of Munich School of Medicine

Nicole La Gruta, Monash University

Bin Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Michelle Linterman, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research

Linrong Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Affiliated Renji Hospital

Ellen Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology

Eui-Cheol Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Ken Smith, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Tim Sparwasser, University of Mainz

Ichiro Taniuchi, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Daniel Utzschneider, University of Melbourne

Ying Wang, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health

Chuan Wu, National Institutes of Health

Meng Xu, Tsinghua University

Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, University of Toronto

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October, 2026.