Committee
Objectives
Areas to be covered

Committee
Chairperson (contact person)	Jorge Garbino (Geneva, Switzerland) E-mail: Jorge.Garbino@hcuge.ch
Secretary	Juan J. Picazo (Spain) E-mail:  Juan@picazo.net
Committee Members	H. Bagnulo (Spain) A. Bal (Ayr, UK) F. Gotuzzo, Peru) K. Kamei (Japan) D. Law (UK) P. Munoz (Spain) R. Negroni (Argentina) Andrea Novelli (Florence, Italy) B. de Pauw (The Netherlands) George L. Petrikkos (Athens, Greece) M. Wolff (France) M. Yagisawa (Tokyo, Japan)

Objectives
The primary objectives of the Working Group will be (but will not be limited to):

• Clinical Studies
• Education and discussion on fungal infection issues
• Epidemiology
• Diagnosis
• Host defence
• Treatment
• Research in all fungal diseases

The secondary objectives will be:

• Raising funds to educate scientists and clinicians
• Collect data on research aspects of fungal diseases

Areas to be covered
These include:

• Aspergillosis
• Candidiasis
• Rare mould
• Host defence
• Human genetics
• Fungal genetics
• Antifungal pharmacology
• Molecular diagnostics
• AIDS patients
• Intensive Care Unit patients
• Haematological malignancy
• Stem cell transplant
• Solid organ transplant
• Paediatric patients
• Clinical Microbiology
• Epidemiology

Last edition: Janvier 27, 2011