President (2023 – 2025)
Sarah Gaffen, PhD
Gerald P. Rodnan Professor, Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology
Director, Pittsburgh Autoimmunity Center of Excellence in Rheumatology (PACER)
University of Pittsburgh. Department of Immunology
@slg1717

President-Elect (2023 – 2025)
Curt M. Horvath, PhD
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
Northwestern University
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Evanston, USA
@jakstatman

Secretary (Jan 2023 – Jan 2025)
Susan Carpenter, PhD
Robert L. Sinsheimer Chair in Molecular Biology
University of California Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, USA
@labcarpenter

Treasurer (Jan 2019-Jan 2022 re-elected Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Dusan Bogunovic, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Pediatrics, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and Precision Immunology Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
@123456789Dusan

Past-President (2023 – 2025)
Christopher Hunter, BSc, PhD
Department of Pathobiology
Mindy Halikman Heyer President’s Distinguished Chair
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
@KingOfPathogens

Council (Jan 2022 – Jan 2025)
Judith E Allen, FRSE, FRSB, FMedSci

Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation
Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health
University of Manchester,
Manchester, United Kingdom
webpages: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/judi.allen
@ProfJudiAllen

Council (Jan 2024 – Jan 2027)
Paul Hertzog, PhD
Head – Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Disease
Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Clayton VIC Australia
https://www.hudson.org.au/researcher-profile/paul-hertzog/
@pjhpauljh

Council (Jan 2022 – Jan 2025)
You-Me Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Council (Jan 2024 – Jan 2027)
Carla Rothlin, PhD
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Pharmacology
Co-Leader, Cancer Immunology, Yale Cancer Center
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
https://medicine.yale.edu/immuno/profile/carla-rothlin/
@carlarothlin

Council members for Inclusion and Training

(Jan 2022 – Jan 2026)
Ruby Dawson, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cancer and Immune Signalling Laboratory 
Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases
Hudson Institute of Medical Research 
Clayton, VIC, Australia

(Jan 2021 – Jan 2025)
Justina Kulikauskaite, PhD
AstraZeneca, UK

Ex-Officio
Joan Oefner, Co-Managing Director
International Cytokine & Interferon Society, Regensburg, Germany

Stephanie Flores photo

Ex-Officio
Stephanie Flores, CAE, Co-Managing Director
International Cytokine & Interferon Society, San Francisco, USA