Immunopathology

The course is taught by faculty members from the departments of medicine, science, and pharmacy. It consists of 42 hours of lectures and supervised work divided into 7 themes (see Syllabus), including two series of article presentations: the first series focuses on articles selected by the instructors for each theme, and the second series features articles chosen by the students. At the end of each course unit, students organize a mini-symposium where the articles are presented. They write abstracts of these articles for the journal *Medecine-Sciences*.

Understand the pathophysiological basis of autoimmune and allergic diseases, immunodeficiencies, and lymphoproliferative syndromes. Understand the mechanisms used by tumors and pathogens to evade the immune system. Understand allogenicity, grafts, 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; it is not necessary to have taken that course unit if you have a solid grasp of the fundamentals of immunology to take this one. A refresher program is also available, offering access to courses that review the fundamentals.

1st session: written exam 75% - oral exam 25%

Session 2: 100% written

Introduction: Inflammation and Immunopathology

Topic 1: Autoimmunity

Topic 2: Grafts and Transplants

Topic 3: Infectious Immunopathology

Topic 4: Hypersensitivities

Topic 5: Immune Responses and Tumors

Topic 6: Immunointervention

Topic 7: Immunodeficiencies, Lymphoproliferative Syndromes