FOCIS Podcast

This month’s episode spotlights one of the 2025 FOCIS Annual Meeting keynote speakers, Dr. Ira Mellman. As President of Research at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and Medici Therapeutics, Dr. Mellman shares the story behind his journey into immunology and reflects on the research contributions he’s most proud of. Tune in for an inside look at the experiences and ideas that have shap...

This month's episode features the FOCIS Centers of Excellence committee chair Jeff Rathmell, PhD (University of Chicago) and FOCIS Committee for Inclusion and Representation chair Monica Guzman, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine). Hear them discuss current research they're working on and next steps in their career.

Hear from FCE Director Carrie L. Lucas, Ph. D, Yale University School of Medicine, in this compelling interview.

🎙️The next episode of the FOCIS podcast is here! The podcast series hosts conversations with the FOCIS community about their paths into immunology, what brought them to FOCIS, and their visions for the future of the field. This episode features FOCIS 2025 speakers Dr. Brian Kim (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) and Dr. Marco Colonna (Washington University in St. Louis).

🎙️Join us for the next chapter in our podcast series as we continue conversations with the FOCIS community about their paths into immunology, what brought them to FOCIS, and their visions for the future of the field. This episode features FOCIS member and FCE representative Dr. Eric Vivier (Aix-Marseille University).

🎙️Be a part of the next episode of this podcast series as we continue conversations with the FOCIS community about their paths into immunology, what brought them to FOCIS, and their visions for the future of the field. This episode features FOCIS FCE Multinational Chair Dr. Olivier Boyer (Normandy University). 

🎙️Join us for the next chapter in our podcast series as we continue conversations with the FOCIS community about their paths into immunology, what brought them to FOCIS, and their visions for the future of the field. This episode features FOCIS President-Elect Dr. Megan Levings (The University of British Columbia) and former board member Dr. Hans-Dieter Volk (Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin).

This episode features Dr. Clive Gray (Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa), Dr. Gabriel Rabinovich (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), and Dr. Marcelo Hill (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay)!

This month's episode features Leonie Taams, PhD (Kings College London), and Susan Bueno, PhD (Instituto Milenio en Inmunologia e Inmunoterapia (IMII).

This month's episode features Joshua Milner, MD (Columbia University), Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD (Northwestern University), Michail Lionakis, MD (NIAID), and Linqi Zhang, PhD (Tsinghua University).

This month's episode features Salvatore Albani, MD, PhD, (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore) and Ciriaco Piccirillo, PhD, (McGill University).

This episode features Dr. Abul Abbas from the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Bana Jabri from the University of Chicago. Their insights promise to enrich your understanding of the latest developments in immunology.

This episode features Dr. Michael Angelo from Stanford University discussing his work. Then, we have an engaging discussion between Dr. Angelo and Dr. Todd Brusko from the UF Diabetes Institute.

Welcome to the FOCIS Podcast! Our very first episode is with FOCIS President Dr. Ignacio Anegon.