The Scuola Superiore d'Immunologia Ruggero Ceppellini (Ruggero Ceppellini Advanced School of Immunology) was founded 20 years ago to create a pole of attraction in Southern Italy for those pursuing immunological studies, and to promote interaction among the scientific and medical communities at the national and international levels.

In recent years, the School has been sponsored by EFIS (European Federation of Immunological Societies) and its journal EJI (European Journal of Immunology).

Full information, history, past courses, etc. are found in this website.

Up-coming Course : EFIS-EJI Advanced Course

The EFIS - EJI Ruggero Ceppellini Advanced School of Immunology

La Scuola Superiore d'Immunologia Ruggero Ceppellini

Presents an Advanced EFIS-EJI Course on:

"Innate Immunity 2012: from Evolution to Revolution"

Sorrento,  Italy,  3 October - 4 November 2012

Course Directors:

Klas Kärre (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden),

Lorenzo Moretta (Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy),

Ennio Carbone (Magna Grecia University, Catanzaro, Italy).

Sala Carlo di Leva,  Circolo dei Forestieri

Organising Committee: S. Fontana, A. Di Giacomo, E. Carbone,  T. Reynolds

Innate Immunity: Evolution

Jean March Reichart (Strasbourg, France) – Drosophila and human innate immunity: an evolutionary perspective

Jonathan Ewbank (Marseille, France) – Innate immunity in C. elegans

Innate Immunity:  Effector  and Regulatory Mechanisms

Alberto Mantovani (Milan, Italy) – Soluble pamps, pamps receptors, in infectious disease and tumor

Siamon Gordon (Oxford, UK) – Macrophages in infection and malignancy

Susanna Cardell (Gothenburg, Sweden) -- NKT cells in mice and human and their effectors and regulatory mechanisms

Lorenzo Moretta (Genoa, Italy) – NK cell regulation and function

Francesco Tedesco (Trieste, Italy) -- The complement system: a new life for an old system

Francesca Granucci (Milan, Italy) -- Innate immunity and Toll Like Receptor (TLR)

Christian Muenz (Zurich, Switzerland) -- DC biology and therapy

Innate Immunity in Therapy

Andrea Velardi (Perugia, Italy) – Progress in NK cell immunotherapy in haploidentical hematopoietic transplantation

Edward Lavelle (Dublin, Ireland) --  Innate immunity and adjuvant in vaccine design

Dietrich Kabelitz (Kiel, Germany) -- Gamma delta T cells biology and their use in therapy

This Course will take place in memory and in honour of the Ceppellini School Founder

Serafino Zappacosta.