Immunopathology

Teaching is carried out by lecturers and researchers from the medical, science, and pharmacy departments. It consists of 42 hours of lectures and supervised work divided into seven themes (see Syllabus), including two series of article presentations: the first series on articles proposed by the lecturers for each theme covered, and the second series on articles chosen by the students. Students organize a mini-symposium at the end of the course where the articles are presented. They write summaries of these articles for the journal Medecine-Sciences.

Understand the pathophysiological basis of autoimmune and allergic diseases, immune deficiencies, and lymphoproliferative syndromes. Understand the mechanisms used by tumors and pathogens to evade the immune system. Understand allogenicity, grafting, and transplantation. Understand the targets of immunotherapies.Emphasis is placed on the scientific approach leading to the description of pathophysiological mechanisms and the development of therapeutic molecules.

This course unit is independent of the Current Research in Immunology course unit, which does not need to have been taken in order to follow this course unit, provided that the fundamental principles of immunology have been mastered. A refresher course is also available, providing access to courses covering the basics.

1st session: written 75% - CC 25%

2nd session: 100% written

Introduction: Inflammation and Immunopathology

Theme 1: Autoimmunity

Theme 2: Transplants and Transplantations

Theme 3: Infectious immunopathology

Theme 4: Hypersensitivities

Theme 5: Immune responses and tumors

Theme 6: Immunointervention

Topic 7: Immune deficiencies, lymphoproliferative syndromes