Advances in immunology: from bench to bedside--a symposium at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS), Boston, MA, USA.

The American Uveitis Society sponsored a symposium at the recent 2005 Annual FOCIS meeting in Boston, MA, USA, that was organized by the authors of this report. The symposium was designed to bring together several leaders in the broad field of immunology and investigators in ocular immunology to discuss three interrelated areas of interest: (i) animal models of ocular inflammation; (ii) interface of innate and adaptive immunity; and (iii) immune regulation. A brief summary of the salient points of the symposium is given.