New trends in clinical and experimental immunosuppression--fourth international conference. 17-20 February 2000, Geneva, Switzerland

The meeting covered several aspects of currently used immunosuppressive drugs, but focused on tolerance induction strategies in the treatment of both allograft rejection and autoimmune diseases. Topics discussed included: clinical trials with anti-CD3 in recently-diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients; Tr1 cells in bone-marrow transplantation; and, 1 alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3-associated with mycophenolate mofetil and anti-CD25 in islet transplantation. In addition, malononitrilamides, an emerging class of novel immunosuppressants, were discussed in depth.