AITE was founded in 1953 by a famous Polish serologist, microbiologist and immunologist professor Ludwik Hirszfeld. It is a multidisciplinary scientific journal, publishing in English full original papers, short communications and reviews, which deal with basic and clinical immunology, experimental therapy, immunogenetics, transplantation, microbiology, immunochemistry. AITE is published by Medical Science International (Warsaw, Poland) on behalf of the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy (Wroclaw, Poland). It is supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN).