CURRICULUM VITAE

Moncef ZOUALI Date of birth: 11 March 1952 Gender: Male Citizenship: France

Education
Date 1984 1983 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1977 1977 1976 1975 Degree Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology (French Doctorat d'Etat) Advanced Immunology M.S. in Biochemistry Immunology and Pathology of Parasitic Diseases Medical Mycology Medical Parasitology Microbiology (Bacteriology and Virology) Medical Immunohematology and Immunopathology Introductory Immunology and Clinical Immunology Fundamental Hematology and Clinical Hematology Doctorate of Pharmacy Institution University of Paris XI and Pasteur Institute Pasteur Institute University of Paris VII, School of Science University of Paris VI, Piti-Salptrire School of Medicine Pasteur Institute University of Paris VII, Lariboisire St Louis School of Medicine Pasteur Institute Pasteur Institute University of Paris XI University of Parix XI University of Limoges, School of Medicine and Pharmacy Location Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France ChtenayMalabry, France ChtenayMalabry, France Limoges, France

Positions Held
Dates Title Organization Location

1998-present 1991-1997 1987-1990

1984 - 1987 1980-1982 1978 1974-1975

Director of Research Director of Research Charg de Recherche (CR1)

Research Associate Teaching Instructor (Immunohaematology) Instructor (Human Physiology) Instructor (Human Physiology)

Inserm & University of Paris Inserm & Institut Pasteur Inserm & Institut Pasteur
Tufts University School of Medicine Pasteur Institute University of Paris XI University of Limoges, School of Medicine and Pharmacy

Paris, France Paris, France Paris, France

Boston; MA, USA Paris, France ChtenayMalabry, France Limoges, France

Honors and Awards

Dates 2006 1990 1987 1985-1987 1984 Name Khwarizmi International Award French Medical Foundation Fondation pour la Recherche Mdicale (FRM) Senior Scholar Fulbright Award John F. Fogarty International Award Annual Thesis Award Description First winner, Medical sciences Award on Autoimmune Disease Research, Paris, France Fulbright Global Program for non-U.S. Scholars, Washington DC, USA National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, USA University of Paris XI 1

1984 1970-1983

Annual Prize in Immunology Predoctoral fellowships

Institut Mrieux, Paris, France ONU, CIES, Paris, France

Research Interests
Immunology, Autoimmunity, Autoimmune Diseases, B cells, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Signaling, Epigenetics, Superantigens, Immunology of infection, AIDS

Memberships
Dates 1982 - present 1982 - 1985 1982 - 1985 1985 - 1989 1987 - 1996 1987 - 1996 1987- present 2000-present 1997- present 1992-2001 2005-present 2007-present 2007-present 2007-present 2009-present Organization/Journal French Society of Immunology French Society of Microbiology French Society of Medical Mycology European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology New York Academy of Sciences American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association of Immunologists Henry Kunkel Society, New York, USA Federation Of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) Lupus Autoimmunity Position Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Advisory Council Member Editorial Board Associate Editor Editorial Board Editorial Board Editorial Board Editorial Board

Open Immunology Journal Open Rheumatology Journal Open Immunology Reviews

Acta Naturae

Ad hoc reviewer for scientific journals

Appl Biochem Biotechnol Arthritis Rheumatism Blood Immunology Journal of Autoimmunity Journal of Immunology Medecine/Sciences Nature Reviews Immunology Scandinavian J Immunology Vaccine Research Arch Biochem. Biophy Autoimmunity Clin Exp Rheumatol FASEB Journal Journal of Clinical Investigation Journal of Molecular Biology Molecular Immunology Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA Trends in Immunology Viral Immunology Arthritis Research Therapy Biotechnology Progress European Journal of Immunology Infection & Immunity Journal of Immunological Methods Lupus Nature Genetics Research in Immunology Vaccine

Ad hoc reviewer for scientific organizations

Association Franaise contre les Myopathies, AFM, Paris (France) Chinese Univ. Hong Kong Research Committee, Hong Kong (China) Human Science Frontiers, Strasbourg (France) INTAS (Belgium) International Sciences Foundation (USA) Israel Science Foundation (Israel) The Welcome Trust (UK) Asthma UK (UK) Austrian Science Fund (Austria) European Commission FP6, Bruxelles (Belgium), Institut Pasteur, Paris (France) Inserm, Paris Italian Ministry for Research, MIUR (Italy) NATO Scientific Affairs (Belgium) USA-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (Israel)

Chairperson for International Meetings

- Meeting of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Brussels, May 16-19, 1984 - XII International Congress of Rheumatology, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Sept. 1989 - "DNA Antibody International Workshop", National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (USA), October 22-24, 1989 - "Second International Conference on SLE, Singapore, November 26-30th, 1989 - "British Society for Immunology Workshop on Autoantibodies", Edinburgh (UK.), September 1990 - "Second International Anti-DNA Antibody Workshop", London, April 1992 - "Third International Conference on SLE, London, April 1992
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- Premire Confrence Maghrbine sur le SIDA et les Rtrovirus, Marrakech, (Morocco), May, 27-30, 1992. - "International Conference on Catalytic Antibodies and Genetic Engineering, Moscow (Russia), June 5 -12 1993 - "XVIIIth ILAR Congress of Rheumatology", Barcelona, Spain, July 4-10, 1993 - "XIth Mediterranean Congress of Rheumatology", Athens (Greece), June 1994 - "4th International Conference on SLE, Jerusalem, Israel, March, 1995 - "International Conference on Biocatalysis 2000, Suzdal (Russia), Aug./Sept. 1995 - "XIIth Mediterranean Congress of Rheumatology", Istanbul (Turkey), June 1996 - "Third International Anti-DNA Antibody Workshop", London, May 11-12, 1996 - "VIII Mediterranean Congress of Rheumatology", Istanbul, Turkey, June 23-30, 1996. - "Catalytic antibodies and antibody engineering", Chantilly, France, October 1996. - XIX ILAR Congress of Rheumatology, Singapore, June 8-13, 1997 - International Meeting on HIV and Immunoregulation, Portmeirion, North Wales, Sept. 21-24, 1997 - International Symposium on Recent Advances in Molecular Genetics of the Maghreb & Middle East Populations, Hammamet, Tunisia, Dec. 16-20, 1997 - "5th International Conference on SLE", Cancun, Mexico, April, 1998 - International Conference "Biocatalysis-98, Pushchino, Russia, June 13-18, 1998 - Fourth African Immunology Conference, Yaound (Cameroun), 14-18 Feb. 2000 - Ninth APLAR Congress of Rheumatology, May 21-26, 2000, Beijing, China - International Conference "Biocatalysis-2000, June 10-15, 2000, Moscow, Russia - 6th Latin American Immunology Congress, 9 13 December 2002, Havana, Cuba - Fifth Congress of the Federation of African Immunological Societies, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27 April - 2 May 2003 - Baltic Conference on Rheumatology, Kaunas, Lithuania, 9-10 May 2003. - 6th Engelhardt Conference on Molecular Biology , St-Petersburg-Moscow, Russia, 28 June 6 July 2003 - Aegean Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments, Myconos, Greece, October 8-13, 2003 - EFIS Symposium & Post-graduate Course on Molecular and Cellular Interactions in Chronic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases, Belgrade, August 29 September 2, 2004 - France-Japan Workshop on Catalytic Antibodies and Antibody Engineering, 21-22 September 2004, Hiroshima, Japan - XI International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Sydney, Nov. 14 - 18 2004, Australia. - Annual meeting of the Hong Kong Society for Immunology , Hong Kong, Apr. 16, 2005. - International Conference, Biocatalysis 2005, Fundamentals & Applications, June, 19-23, 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia - The 3rd Congress of the Federation of Immunology Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA), 8-22 April 05, Hangzhou, China. - 7th Congress of the Latin American Association of Immunology (ALAI), Cordoba, Argentina (2-6 October 2005). - 1st Mediterranean Workshop on Clinical Immunology, Evora, Portugal, 26-29 October 2006. - International Biocatalysis-2007 Conference, Moscow-St.-Petersburg, Russia, 17-22 June, 2007 - 13 th International Congress of Immunology (13 th IUIS meeting), 21-25 August, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. - Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR), 10 13 June 2009, Copenhagen - 2nd European Congress of Immunology, 13-16 Sept. 2009, Berlin, Germany

Organization of International Meetings

- August 28th-30th 1988, Brussels, Belgium : Workshop on "Expression, Regulation and Modulation of the Idiotypic Repertoire to HIV", sponsored by the Commission of the European Community. - September 29th-3rd October 1991, Bischenberg, France : Philippe LAUDAT Conference on "The Variable Gene Repertoire of B and T cells : Development in normal and pathological conditions" [with P. Debr (F), M.P. Lefranc (F), R. MacDonald (CH), C. Milstein (UK) and M. Neuberger (UK) ; sponsored by the INSERM]. - May 22nd-26th, 1993, Maratea, Italy, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Experimental and Fundamental Aspects of Autoimmunity, [with D. Isenberg (UK), P. Migliorini (I) and I. Roitt (UK) ]. - July 19-21, 2001. "B cells and Autoimmunity: New concepts and therapeutic perspectives", Satellite Meeting to the 11th International Congress of Immunology, Bergen, Norway), [in collaboration with R. Jonsson (Bergen) and P. Lipsky (NIH, Bethesda, USA)]. - 8-18 September 2002. "Frontiers In Autoimmunity, Fundamental Aspects and Clinical Perspectives", Keszthely, Balaton Lake, Hungary [with P. Lipsky (NIH, Bethesda, USA), G. Sarmay (Budapest, Hungary), A. Gabibov (Moscow, Russia) and A. Puccetti (Verona, Italy)].
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- 15th 18th July 2004, Second International Conference on B cells and Autoimmunity: New concepts and therapeutic perspectives, Quebec City, Canada, Satellite meeting organized in conjunction with the 12th International Congress of Immunology, (Montreal, 18 23 July 2004), [with P. Lipsky (NIH, USA and W. Mourad (Quebec, Canada)]. - 26-29 October 2006."First Mediterranean Workshop on Clinical Immunology", Evora, Portugal [with Maria Margarida Souto Carneiro (Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia, Oeiras)]. - August 18th to 20th, 2007, The Third International Conference on B Cells and Autoimmunity, Focus on Infection, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, meeting organized in conjunction with the 13 th International Congress of Immunology (13 th ICI, August 21-25, 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), [in collaboration with Alberto Nobrega (Rio de Janeiro) and P. Lipsky (NIH, Bethesda, USA)]. http://www.histo.ufrj.br/LIB/satellite - Oct 4th to 7th, 2008, "2nd Mediterranean Clinical Immunology Meeting", Antalya, Turkey, [in collaboration with Gnnur Deniz (Istanbul) and Barbaros Oral (Bursa, Turkey] http://www.clinicalimmunology2008.org/ - August 19th to 22nd, 2010, The Fourth International Conference on B Cells and Autoimmunity, Nara, Japan, meeting organized in conjunction with the 14 th International Congress of Immunology (14 th ICI, August 22-27, 2010, Kobe, Japan), [in collaboration with Peter E. Lipsky, Tomohiro Kurosaki, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto]; http://web.rcai.riken.jp/bcellevent/index.html

Invited lectures and research seminars in France

- Runion de la Socit Franaise d'Immunologie, 1982, Paris (France) - Colloque de la Socit Franaise de Mycologie Mdicale, Paris, 1982 - Congrs de la Socit Franaise d'Hmatologie, 1983, Limoges (France) - Runion de la Socit Franaise d'Hmatologie, 1984, Paris (France) - Colloque du Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, 1984, Paris (France) - INSERM, Ph. Laudat Conference, Obernai, France, Sept. 29- 3 oct. 1991 - Runion GREMI, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, 1993 - "4th Breton Workshop on Autoimmunity", Brest, France, April 14- 16, 1994 - Hpital douard Herriot, INSERM U 80, Lyon, January 1998. - Joint meeting of the Socit Mdicale des Hpitaux de Paris and the Royal Society of Medicine, 12 April 2002. - Hpital Broussais, Paris, 1988 - Institut de Biologie Molculaire, Strasbourg, 1988 - Institut Pasteur, Paris, 1988 - Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, 1989 - Institut Curie, Paris, 1989 - Hpital A. Beclre, Centre de Recherche Inserm, Clamart, 1990 - Universit de Rouen, 1990 - Hpital Cochin, Centre de Recherche Inserm, Paris 1990 - Facult de Mdecine, Brest, 1991 - Hpital Henri Mondor, Crteil, 1992 - Institut de Biologie Molculaire, Hpital Cochin, Paris, 1992 - Universit P. et M. Curie, Inst. Biomdical des Cordeliers, 1993 - CHU de Poitiers, CNRS URA1172, Poitiers, 1994 - Journes Nationales de Transfusion Sanguine, INTS, Paris, 1994 - Journes sur les Banques Combinatoires d'Anticorps, Annecy, Les Pensires, 1995 -- First International Conference on "HIV and Cytokines", Reims, France, March 1995 - "IX Congrs International Eurobiologie", Pont-A-Mousson, France, 29 Sept.-3 Oct. 1996. - 17th European Workshop for Rheumatology Research, Brest, France, 20-23 March 1997 - Universit de Technologie de Compignne, Compigne, April 1999.

- 14th course of the French Society of Imunology, Les Pensires, Annecy, 8 - 12 Nov. 2002.

- Participation au Cours de DEA de Biologie Molculaire et Cellulaire, 28 Fvrier 2005, Strasbourg - Journe dImmunologie sur le lymphocyte B, Le Kremlin-Bictre, 5 Avr. 2005.

International seminars at universities and research institutes

- Tufts University, Boston (USA), 1987 - McGill University, Montreal (Canada), 1988 - Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1989 - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (USA), 1990 - University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London (UK), 1991 - University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), 1991

- Tehran University, Tehran (Iran), 1994. - University of Nebraska, Omaha (USA), 1994 - South West Medical Foundation, San Antonio, Texas, (USA), 1994. - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, (USA), 1994. - Fondation Mrieux, Runion "Banques Combinatoires d'Anticorps", Annecy (France), 1995. - Institut National de Nutrition, Tunis (Tunisie), 1995. - New York State University, Syracuse (USA), 1995. - University of Pleven, Medical School, Pleven (Bulgaria), 1995. - Specialty Laboratories, Santa Monica, CA, (USA), 1996. - Children's Hospital, Oakland, CA, (USA), 1996 - University of California, Davis, (USA), 1996 - University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma-City (USA), 1996 - VA Medical Center, Infectious Disease Section, Minneapolis, MN 55417 (USA), 1998. - The Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55 905 (USA), 1998. - University of Florida, Department of Medicine, Gainesville, FL. 32610-0221 (USA) 1998. - University of Texas, Medical School, Houston, TX 77225-0708 (USA), 1998. - VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. (USA), 1998. - University of Miami, School of Medicine, Miami, FL. 33101-6960 (USA), 1998. - Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia), 1998. - University of Naples Frederico II, Naples (Italy), 1998. - Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia), 1999 - Pushchino Biological Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino (Russia), 1999 - University Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, June 2000 - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, November 2001 - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, February 2002 - The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA, February 2002 - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, February 2002 - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA, February 2002 - University of Caracas, Venzuela, June, 2002 - Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Planegg-Martinsried, November 2002, Germany - Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, December 2003 - Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD., USA, April 2004 - Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.USA, Apr. 2004 - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM., USA, April 2004 - University of California, School of Medicine, Davis, CA., USA, April 2004 - Kinkin Medical University, Osaka, Japan, September 2004 - University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, October 2004 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, October 2004 - Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 12 Nov. 2004. - Monash University, Prahran, 3181 Victoria, Australia, 18 Nov. 2004. - Medical University of Vienna, Brain Research Institute, Vienna, Austria, Dec. 1, 2004. - Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, Mar. 11, 2005. - Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, 30 Nov. 2005. - Children's Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA, 1 December 2005. - Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX. USA, 2 December 2005. - Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 5 December 2005. - Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, 7 Dec. 2005. - Department of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, 9 Dec.2005. - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 30 June 2006. - Chung Shan Medical University, Inst. of Immunology, Taichung, Taiwan, 5 Dec. 2006. - Chung Shan Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, 6 Dec. 2006 - King's College London, UK, 22 February 2007 - Chung Shan Medical University, Inst. of Immunology, Taichung, Taiwan, 29 June 2007. - National Cheng Kung University, Medical School, Tainan, 3 July 2007. - Chung Shan Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, 5 March 2008 - Department of Biotechnology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, 23 June 2008. - University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, 25 June 2008. - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 22 Sept. 2008 - University of Iowa Medical School, Iowa City, IA, USA, 29 September 2008 - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 7 June 2010

Invited presentations at international meetings

- 5th European Immunology Meeting, Istanbul (Turkey), 1982 - International Congress of Parasitology, Toronto (Canada), 1982 - X European Congress of Rheumatology, Moscow (USSR), 1983 - 4me Ecole Franco-Africaine de Biologie Molculaire, Jerba (Tunisia), 1984 - 4th International Symposium on Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology and Immunology,
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Berlin (FRG), 1984 - XI Inter. Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Calgary (Canada), 1984 - 6th European Immunology Meeting, Interlaken (Switzerland), 1984 - FEBS International Summer Course on Immunology, Ionian Village (Greece), 1984 - The New-York Academy of Sciences Conference on Autoimmunity, New York (USA), 1985 - Gordon Research Conference, Plymouth, N.H. (USA), 1985 - 70th Annual Meeting of the FASEB, St. Louis, MO (USA), 1986 - 6th International Congress of Immunology, Toronto (Canada), 1986 - NIH Conference on Molecular Biology, Washington DC (USA), 1986 - FASEB Summer Research Conference, Saxtons River, VT (USA), 1987 - 6me Ecole Franco-Africaine de Biologie Molculaire, Jerba (Tunisia), 1988 - 9th European Immunology Meeting, Roma (Italy), 1988 - International meeting on "Molecular Aspects of Autoimmunity", 1988, Quebec (Canada) - Meeting of the American Rheumatism Association, 1988 - Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology, Newark (USA), 1989 - "XIIth International Congress of Rheumatology", Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), September 17-23, 1989 - NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 1989, Athens (Greece) - XII European Rheumatology Meeting, Budapest (Hungary), 1991 - 7th International Conference on AIDS. Florence, Italy, 16 -21 June 1991 - "Joint Meeting British Society of Immunology/French Society of Immunology", London (UK), October 1991 - 8th International Congress of Immunology, Budapest (Hungary), August 23-28, 1992 - 3rd International Conference on Idiotypes and Disease, Oslo (Norway), August 12-15, 1992 - Molecular Aspects of Endocrine Autoimmunity, Mainz (Germany), August 18-22, 1992 - "International Conference on Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Self-reactivity and Autoimmune Diseases", Taormina (Italy), June 7-12, 1992. - "International Conference on "Modern Enzymology: Problems and Trends", St. Petersburg (Russia), June 24-29, 1992. - NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Acquafreda di Maratea, (Italy), May 1993. - "Catalytic antibodies and Antibody engineering", Moscow (Russia), 1 993. - XVIII ILAR Congress of Rheumatology, Barcelona (Spain), 1993. - "Xl Congress of the Latin-American Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology", Isla de Margarita (Venezuela), 1993. - "Centenaire de l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis", Tunis (Tunisia), 1993. - "VII Mediterranean Congress of Rheumatology", Athens (Greece), 1994. - "New York Academy of Sciences Conference", Montreal (Canada), 1994. - Second African Immunology Conference, Nairobi (Kenya), 22-28 October 1994. - Fourth Breton Workshop on Autoimmunity, Brest (France), 15-16 April 1994. - 9mes Journes de la Socit Tunisienne de Biologie Clinique, Hammamet, (Tunisia), 1995. - Gordon Research Conference on Cell Death, New London, N.H., (USA), 1995. - Conference "Perspectives in Autoimmunity", Stockholm (Sweden), 1995. - "7th International Symposium on Antiphospholip Antibodies", New Orleans (USA), Oct. 1996. - Third African Immunology Conference, Cape Town (South Africa), 9-13 March 1997. - European Science Foundation meeting on B cells in health and disease, Acquafreda di Maratea, (Italy), 9-14 October 1998. - University of Naples Frederico II, Naples (Italy), 1998. - Satellite Meeting in Conjunction with the 10th International Congress of Immunology, Catalytic and Super Antibodies, New Delhi (India), Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 1998. th International Clinical Pathology Meeting and 38th Lariboisire Clinical Pathology Sunday - 43 Meeting, CNIT-Paris- La Dfense, France, 19 - 21 Nov. 1998 - Second International Congress on Autoimmunity, Tel Aviv, Israel, 7-12 March, 1999 - The 4th International Engelhardt Conference on Molecular Biology, July 4 - 9, 1999, Moscow-Saint Petersbourg, Russia - Fourth African Immunology Conference, 14-18 February 2000, Yaounde, Cameron - International Congress on Advances in Immunology and Allergology threshold of the XXI century, May 3-6 2000, Eilat, Israel - Third Central European Congress of Rheumatology, May 10-13 2000, Bratislava, Slovak Republic - Ninth APLAR Congress of Rheumatology, May 21-26, 2000, Beijing, China - University Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, June 2000 - International Conference "Biocatalysis-2000, June 10-15, 2000, Moscow, Russia. - Key Stone Symposium on Innate Immunity, Taos, , NM, USA, February 2002 - Immunoregulation in Health and Disease, Second Al Ain International Immunology meeting, March 11 14, 2002, Al Ain, UAE - Second Innate Immunity Workshop, Mykonos, Greece, 26-30 May 2002 - XIII Pan American Congress of Rheumatology, June 23-27, 2002, Aruba - International Workshop IT-2002, Immunotherapy for the New Century, 5 8 Dec., Havana2002, Cuba - 6th Latin American Immunology Congress, 9 13 December 2002, Havana, Cuba - Fifth Congress of the Federation of African Immunological Societies, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27 April - 2 May 2003
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- Baltic Conference on Rheumatology, Kaunas, Lithuania, 9-10 May 2003. - 6th Engelhardt Conference on Molecular Biology , St-Petersburg-Moscow, Russia, 28 June 6 July 2003 - 12th Symposium on Signals and Signal Processing in the Immune System (EFIS Symposium), Sopron, Hungary, 3-7 September, 2003. - Aegean Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments, Myconos, Greece, October 8-13, 2003 - Biotechnology Havana 2003: Medical Applications of Biotechnology, November 23 to 28, 2003, Havana, Cuba - 16th International Congress of Pediatrics, 8-13 Oct. 2004, Tehran, Iran. - 5th Practical & Theoretical Workshop on Molecular Immunology, Iranian Pasteur Institute & National Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NRCGEB), Tehran, Iran, 10-12 Oct. 2004. - Guest Speaker of "sterreichische Gesellschaft fr Allergologie und Immunologie" (Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology) Annual meeting, 2-4 Dec 2004. - Meeting "Ibero-Americano de Reumatologa (CIAR)", Buenos Aeres, Argentina, 29 Sept. 2005. - Cell Signaling World 2006, Signal Transduction Pathways as Therapeutic Targets, Luxembourg, 25 28 Jan 2006. - 6th Federation of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) Congress, Dakar, Sngal, 20-23 March 2006 - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA Conference, Opatija, Croatia, 26-30 June 2006. - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 30 June 2006. - Int. Congress of Immunogenomics & Immunomics, Budapest, Hungary, 8-12 Oct. 2006. - 11th International Course for Clinical Immunology of Infectious Diseases and Total Quality Management (ICCI-TQM), 12 Nov. - 20 Dec., 2006, Ismailia, Egypt. - Round-Table Conference on Bioactive compounds in cancer prevention Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland 14 Dec. 2006 - Biomarkers and New Therapies in SLE - A Workshop", University College London, UK, 23/34 February 2007 - 6th Global Arthritis Research Network (GARN) Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 10-12 May, 2007 - The 8th International Congress on SLE, Shanghai, China, 23-27 May, 2007 - First International IUIS North African Course on Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Hammamet, 2528 October 2007 - Guest Speaker of "Philippine Rheumatology Association", Manila, Philippines, 26 June 2008. - Merinoff Symposium (Systemic Lupus: Bringing Science to the Patient), Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY, USA, September 24-27, 2008 - Guest Speaker of The Croatian Immunological Society Annual Meeting & Celebration Of Croatian Immunological Society 40th Anniversary, ibenik, Croatia, 9-12 October 2008 - Guest Speaker of Hong Kong Immunology Society & The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 15 October 2008 - The 4th Congress of the Federation of Immunology Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA), Taipei, Taiwan, 17-20 October 2008 - International IUIS Advanced Course in Clinical Immunology, Tehran, Iran, 7 8 May 2009 - Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR), Copenhagen, 10 13 June 2009, Denmark - International Biocatalysis-2009 Conference, Arkhangelsk, Russia, 19-24 June, 2009 - Consensus Conference on Multidisciplinary Approach of Biological Therapies, Florence, Italy, 3-4 July 2009. - Annual meeting of the Ukrainian Society for Immunology, Allergology & Immuno-Rehabilitation, Lviv, Ukraine, 14-16 Oct. 2009 - 1st South Eastern European Immunology School, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, Oct. 22-25 2009 - Immunology Mini-School on Communicable diseases, Fayoum University, Teaching Hospital, Fayoum, Egypt, 4-6 Nov. 2009 - 7th Federation of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) Congress, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 8 - 11 Nov. 2009 - 20th National Congress of the Turkish Society of Immunology, Kyrenia, Cyprus, 19 - 22 Nov. 2009. - 10th International Congress of Immunology and Allergy of Iran, 18 20 May, 2010, Tehran, Iran - 9th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 24 27, 2010 - 14th International Congress of Immunology, Kobe, Japan, 22-27 August, 2010 Current Address: Moncef ZOUALI, Director of Research Inserm U606; University Paris Diderot-Paris 7 Centre Viggo Petersen, Hpital Lariboisire, 2, rue Ambroise Pare, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France, Phone: + (33) 1 49 95 63 28; Fax: + (33) 1 45 84 79 62 e-mail: moncef.zouali@wanadoo.fr
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