History
Activities
The first congress of Czech and Slovak immunologists was organised by Prof.
Jindřich Lokaj in Brno in 1976. The second was held in Martin, Slovakia, in
1979 and since then the immunological congresses have been organised at
3-year intervals, with the Czech Republic and Slovakia alternating as
organisers. General assemblies convene and presidents of the Society are
elected during the congresses.
One of the chief activities of CIS, apart from the regular
congresses, local highly specialised Symposia and Day of Immunology, is the
co-organisation of EFIS-EJI Tatra Immunology Conference held at two-year
intervals at Štrbské Pleso (Tatra Mountains, Slovakia) and participation in
the PhD education in immunology.
The Society confers every year two prestigious awards; one of them, in the
memory of Miloslav Pospíšil, is presented to authors of all ages for
distinguished papers in the field of natural immunity, the other is limited
to authors under 35 years as a reward for excellent original papers in
immunology. It is currently named after Prof. Šterzl, the founder of modern
Czech immunology, who passed away on May 8, 2012. In addition, the Society
confers the highest award, the Garnet Immunoglobulin, usually on the
occasion of immunological congress not only to Czech but also to foreign
immunologists who left a deep and permanent trace in the field and closely
collaborate with Czech colleagues.
Since 1969, first the committee and later on also the
secretariat of the Czechoslovak/Czech Immunological Society have ben hosted
by the Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
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