INTERNATIONAL
TRANSFER FACTOR
SOCIETY
(ITFS)



STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The purpose of THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER FACTOR SOCIETY (ITFS) is to promote, stimulate and coordinate the exchange of ideas related to studies of Transfer Factor and other immunoregulators present in human or animal leukocyte dialysates. The Society will conduct scientific conferences in this important area of immunological research and will help to coordinate future research and collaborative activities pertaining to the immunological functions of leukocyte dialysates.

The International Transfer Factor Society is a scholarly organization committed to the world-wide exchange of information pertaining to the immunologic properties of leukocyte dialysates. The Society does not endorse any commercial product purported to have Transfer Factor and/or other immunological activities, nor does it endorse any commercial organization representing that it is producing such products.


The XI International Congress on Transfer Factor and other immunologic properties of leukocyte dialysates was held on March 1-4, 1999 at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Monterey, Mexico.  The abstracts from that meeting as well as the Society's Xth International Symposium are available at the links below.

Abstracts from the Xth International Symposium on Transfer Factor
Abstracts from the XIth International Symposium on Transfer Factor

For further information concerning The Society and or membership, contact:
Giancarlo Pizza, M.D.
Head, Immunotherapy Module
Operative Unit of Urology
Department of Nephrology and Urology
Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital
Via P. Palagi, 9
40138 Bologna
ITALY
+39 051 636 2478 (voice)
+39 051 636 2476 (fax)
e-mail: gpizza@med.unibo.it


OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER FACTOR SOCIETY
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
H. Sherwood Lawrence, M.D.
Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine 
Head, Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division 
Co-Director Medical Services 
Bellevue and Tisch Hospitals 
Department of Medicine 
NYU Medical Center 
550 First Avenue 
New York, NY 10016 
USA 

+1 212 263-6400 (voice) 
+1 212 263-7369 (fax) 
 

FOUNDING PRESIDENT
A. Arthur Gottlieb, M.D.
(1937-1998)
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology & Immunology 
Professor of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
PRESIDENT
Giancarlo Pizza, M.D.
Head, Immunotherapy Module
Operative Unit of Urology
Department of Nephrology and Urology
Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital
Via P. Palagi, 9 
40138 Bologna 
ITALY 

+39 051 636 2478 (voice) 
+39 051 636 2476 (fax) 
home page
e-mail: gpizza@med.unibo.it

VICE-PRESIDENT
Charles H. Kirkpatrick, M.D.
Department of Medicine
Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
School of Medicine
4200 East Ninth Avenue, #B164
Denver, Colorado 80262
USA 

+1 303 333 9625 (voice) 
+1 303 333 9621 (fax)
e-mail: ckirkpat@eri.uchsc.edu

DEPUTY PRESIDENT
Dimitri Viza, M.D.
BioTransfer Research Foundation
frmr Director, Immunobiology Laboratory,
University of Paris, France

+33 1 40 18 39 22 (fax)
e-mail: dimitri.viza@freesbee.fr

SECRETARY
Marise Gottlieb, M.D.
Endeavor Corp. 
New Orleans, Louisiana 
USA 

e-mail: marsgott@massmed.org

TREASURER
Paul H. Levine, M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 
The George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services 

+1 202 994 4582
e-mail: Paul@butterfly.net


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For questions or comments about this site, please e-mail:Giancarlo Pizza.

24 December 2001