New developments on the effects of alcohol use on immunity, inflammation and organ function: A summary of the 2024 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting
The 29th annual Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting was held on November 22nd, 2024, at Loyola University Chicago, Health Science Campus, Maywood, Illinois. The meeting was divided into three plenary sessions and a poster session. The overall focus of this year's meeting was on alcohol and host immunity, alcohol and organ dysfunction, and alcohol, inflammation, and tissue injury. The presentations in each session shared the latest developments on the impact of alcohol in a wide variety of fields including trauma, emergency care and hospitalization, cardiovascular health, neurodegenerative disease, gut microbiome, and hepatology.
Authors
- John J. Callaci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8130-6340)
- Madison M. Tschann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1622-092X)
- Andrew J. Hoisington (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5523-8567)
- Wiramon Rungratanawanich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9334-0984)
- Rachel H. McMahan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-2821)
- Todd A. Wyatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9273-6730)
- Moses New‐Aaron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-1185)
- Claudia R. Keating (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0009-7303)
- Elizabeth J. Kovacs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9459-9928)
- Vidula Vachharajani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0892-7084)
- Rebecca L. McCullough (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5341-7326)
- Pranoti Mandrekar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4966-7100)
- Sarah Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1111-7311)
- Samantha M. Yeligar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9309-0233)
- Ellen Lyda Burnham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9945-0284)
- Abhishek Mandal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6062-5958)
- Cristina Llorente (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8135-9186)
- János Pálóczi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7691-4138)
- Weizhe Zhong
- Mashkoor A. Choudhry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1152-7145)
- Eileen M. Redmond (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8642-4418)
- Justine R Zimmerly
- Adriana Souto Pereira Nuncio
- Preeti Raju
Institutions
- Nebraska Medical Center (US)
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center (US)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Loyola University Chicago (US)
- University of Rochester Medical Center (US)
- Yale University (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (US)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (US)
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (US)
- Atlanta VA Health Care System (US)
- VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System (US)
- Loyola Medicine (US)
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (US)
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Alcohol
- Published
- 2025-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2025.04.002
- Primary Topic
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00