Alicante-Winter Immunology Symposium in Health (A-Wish) and the Boulle-SEI awards: A collaboration between the Spanish Society for immunology, the University of Alicante and the Jean Boulle Group to honor the Balmis Expedition

Graphical Image 1 Highlights • This introduction for the first Alicante-Winter Immunology Symposium in Health (A-WISH) and the Boulle-SEI Awards, seeks to promote the efforts of Spanish scientists in the advancement of the study of immunology, infectious diseases and vaccinology, and also to disseminate the development of novel approaches in diagnosis and therapeutics of diseases that involve the immune system.• On December 16th and 17th 2021 the Spanish Society of Immunology (SEI) and the University of Alicante (UA) joined forces to organize the first A-WISH (https://a-wish.org).• In this first symposium, researchers shared their expertise to address strategies for the COVID-19 response and pandemic preparedness.