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.

Madison M Tschann , Vidula Vachharajani , Eileen M Redmond , Andrew Hoisington , Sarah E Cohen , Moses New-Aaron , Cristina Llorente , Janos Paloczi , Claudia R Keating , Wiramon Rungratanawanich , Ellen L Burnham , John J Callaci , Preeti Raju , Weizhe Zhong , Abhishek Mandal , Justine R Zimmerly , Adriana S P Nuncio , Pranoti Mandrekar , Rebecca L McCullough , Rachel H McMahan

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Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL, USA; Alcohol Research Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL, USA. Electronic address:

Published: August 2025

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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.

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