Dear Colleagues:

I am honored to serve as your new CIS President. Jonathan Braun is continuing as immediate Past President of CIS and Steve Holland is now serving as President Elect. There are currently 650 members, and 45 new members joined CIS last year. Please be sure to visit the WebBook of Biologics that Marc Natter has spearheaded. This recent feature has already captured 10% of the CIS website traffic. Our Journal, Clinical Immunology now has an impact factor of 3.6, and has had steadily increasing submissions over the recent years. Please activate your free online subscription. I am very grateful for the superb work done by Andrew Saxon, who continues to "grow" the journal as Editor-in-Chief.

I hope you were able to attend FOCIS 2009 in San Francisco, which was an exciting meeting that was co-sponsored by CIS. At FOCIS, CIS hosted two very successful satellites, as judged by "standing room only" attendance:

• Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases
• Immune Function Monitoring in Clinical Trials

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