8th Annual Immune Dysregulation Symposium: DIRT Gets Into Immune Privileged Sites

Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, HUB for Clinical Collaboration, CHOP, Philadelphia, PA


The symposium, hosted by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) multidisciplinary Immune Dysregulation Team, is intended for an audience of clinicians and translational scientists from both the U.S. and abroad. This year’s theme revolves around immune privileged sites. Electrifying sessions on maternal/fetal immunity, ocular inflammation, and neuroinflammation are planned. The event will include cutting edge talks, a debate on therapeutic decision-making, provocative trainee cases, and more.

1. Understand the protective and pathologic consequences of the maternal-fetal immune interface
2. Construct a working knowledge of the retina-blood barrier and how it relates to ocular inflammation
3. Identify the roles that brain-native and circulating immune cells play in health and neuroinflammatory disease.

Attendees have the option of attending this hybrid conference at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia or virtually.

Registration is Free

In-person registration includes continental breakfast, breaks and lunch.

With grateful financial support from the Jeffrey Modell Foundation.

In support of improving patient care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5.00 hours), ANCC NCPD Contact Hours (5.00 hours), Non-Physician AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Attendance (includes PA, RT, RDMS) (5.00 hours)

A block of rooms has been reserved at reduced rates at The Study located just a few blocks from Children’s Hospital. The group overnight rate is $259 single and double occupancy plus a 16.25% room tax. Participants are required to make their own hotel reservations by calling The Study directly at 215-387-1400. Please mention the name of the conference when making your reservation. The special room rate will be available until May 9, 2026. After that date, reservations will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Immune Dysregulation Program is accepting abstracts for poster presentations at this year’s symposium, “DIRT gets into Immune Privileged Sites” be held Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Abstracts may relate to any aspect of immune dysregulation, including those focusing on inflammatory disease, infectious disease, immune deficiencies, malignancies or neuroinflammation.

Abstract Selection Process

Abstracts will be selected for poster presentations based on quality, merit, and relevance to the immune dysregulation community. Projects may be in various stages of development. Abstracts already presented at other meetings are acceptable for submission. An abstract review committee will determine abstract suitability based solely on relevance to meeting topic.

Poster Presentation Format

Every person or group with an accepted abstract will be asked to generate/provide a poster to fit on a 4ft by 6ft posterboard. Posters smaller than this size are permitted. Presenters should hang their posters in the lobby of the HUB on June 10^th between 8am and noon. Presenters should stand by their posters between 12:30p and 1:15pm to engage with conference attendants.

Notification of Acceptance

Notification of abstract acceptance will be emailed to the contact author listed on the abstract after Tuesday, May 19, 2026. If you have not received notification by Wednesday May 20, 2026, please contact Eliza Octavo ([email protected]).

Registration is REQUIRED to attend the symposium and present a poster.

Submission of an abstract DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY REGISTER YOU for the symposium.

Electronic submission deadline is Friday, May 15th, 2026, by 11:59 p.m. EST.

• Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.
• There is no limit to the number of abstracts submitted by each author, but the submission of multiple, similar abstracts from the same investigator is discouraged.
• Each abstract submitted should be for a distinct project.
• Abstracts submitted or presented at other meetings may be submitted for consideration.
• Upon submission, the submitting author verifies that all authors have agreed to submit the abstract and that all submitted information is true.
• Abstract submissions are open to students, trainees, researchers and clinicians.

 

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