Sponsorship Opportunities

Please join us in advancing research, treatment, and education related to mastocytosis and associated mast cell diseases.

The American Initiative in Mast Cell Diseases (AIM) is pleased to announce the AIM 2026 Physician and Investigator Conference, scheduled for May 16-17, 2026 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, home to the University of Michigan, with an option for virtual participation. This meeting will highlight scientific and clinical discoveries in mast cell disease, as well as clinical trials and newly developed international treatment guidelines. The program will include a roster of world-renowned speakers.

The 2026 conference will build upon the success of the inaugural event in 2019 at Stanford University. Other conferences that have followed since then include virtual meetings held in 2021 and 2023 as well as in-person conferences in Salt Lake City, UT in 2022, and in Boston, MA in 2024. Most recently, the first AIM Latin American Conference took place in October 2025 in Santiago, Chile. As a result of these conferences, AIM has developed a network of more than 30 Reference Centers and Centers of Excellence for diagnostic and specialty care expertise.

Please contact us for more information on sponsorship opportunities.

Sincerely,

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The AIM Committee

Jason Gotlib, MD – President
Stanford University School of Medicine / Stanford Cancer Institute

Cem Akin, MD, PhD – Vice President
University of Michigan

Tracy I. George, MD – Secretary / Treasurer
ARUP Laboratories & The University of Utah

Melody Carter, MD
National Institutes of Health

Mariana Castells, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Mastocytosis Center

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AIM Policy Statement

The American Initiative in Mast Cell Diseases (AIM) will not provide a list of member names and contact information, as well as conference attendee names and contact information, to outside organizations except as specifically contracted for program management purposes. All invitations to official AIM events will be managed by AIM and any organization specifically contracted for program management purposes. AIM Reference Centers and Centers of Excellence are listed on the official website with contact information as provided by each Center.