Photo: Dr. Bart Lambrecht (Left) and Dr. Xin Li (right) attending the New York Academy of Sciences "Severe Asthma, Inflammation, and Lung Repair” Conference
The Jill Roberts Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Xin Li, a Postdoctoral Associate in the Iliev Lab, has been awarded the Outstanding Presentation Prize for his presentation, Sensing Fungal Dysbiosis by Gut-Resident CX3CR1+ Mononuclear Phagocytes Aggravates Allergic Airway Disease from the New York Academy of Sciences and F1000 (Faculty 1000). The award was presented during the “Severe Asthma, Inflammation, and Lung Repair” Conference held on Friday, April 26, 2019. The director of the Jill Roberts Institute, Dr. David Artis, also presented his talk, Regulation of Chronic Inflammation, at the event, details of which can be found here: https://www.nyas.org/events/2019/severe-asthma-novel-concepts-therapeutics/. This event included outstanding immunologists that travel from around the world to New York City. One of the highlights of the event was the closing Keynote Address, Charcot-Leyden Protein Crystals: From Marker of Death to a Drug Target in Asthma, presented by Dr. Bart N. Lambrecht, who is a key leader in the field of asthma and lung research working at Ghent University.