To address the increasing importance of studying immunology in humans, rather than a reliance on model systems, back-to-back symposia highlighting advances in human immunology were held in Osaka and Kyoto in Japan.
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We thank the Takeda Science Foundation and staff members for supporting the Takeda Symposium, ASHBi, KIC, Kyoto University, AMED-SCARDA and WPI programs for supporting the Kyoto Symposium, and Cytek for sponsoring the Kyoto Symposium. We also thank the invited speakers and participants for sharing their valuable knowledge and perspectives. We express our gratitude to the invited speakers who allowed us to incorporate their research into this meeting report and apologize to presenters whose work could not be discussed owing to space constraints. This work was supported by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development grant JP243fa627009h (HU).
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Masuo, Y., Lu, D., Matsuyama, J. et al. Human immunology soars in Japan. Nat Immunol 26, 653–656 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-025-02122-w
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