The Cancer Research Institute is hosting the XVIIIth meeting in its International Cancer Immunotherapy Symposium Series on October 6-8, 2010.
Multiple Functions of CD4 T Cells in Autoimmunity, Infectious Disease, and Cancer will include a series of plenary lectures and poster session that is open to all attendees.
The meeting will be held at the Millennium Conference Center in midtown Manhattan.
We look forward to seeing you in New York City.
Sincerely,
Lloyd J. Old, M.D.
Director, CRI Scientific Advisory Council
Director, LICR NY Branch of Human Immunology
Emil R. Unanue, M.D.
Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Meeting Co-Chairs
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About the Meeting
CD4 T cells play critical and diverse roles in controlling the immune response. Since the mid-1980s, researchers have identified a growing repertoire of CD4 T cell subsets and have made great progress in elucidating their different functions and regulation. It is now known that, while some, such as Th1, Th2 and Th17, are involved in promoting immune response, others, such as regulatory T cells (Tregs), engage in immune suppression. The specific roles that these cells play in autoimmunity, infectious disease and cancer, however, remain unclear. Further characterizing CD4 T cell types and defining their precise functions and relationships to disease states will present key challenges moving forward. The 2010 CRI Symposium will address these and other challenges facing basic research and clinical development in the field today.
Confirmed Speakers
James P. Allison, Ph.D.
Chairman, Immunology Program
Director, Ludwig Center of Cancer Immunotherapy
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D.
Chief, Mucosal Immunology Unit
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Jeffrey Bluestone, Ph.D.
A.W. and Mary Clausen Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Immunology Chair, Diabetes Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Lisa M. Coussens, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Shane Crotty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Vaccine Discovery
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
La Jolla, CA
Chen Dong, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology
Olga and Harry Weiss Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Center for Inflammation and Cancer
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Dmitry Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Tampa, FL
Ronald N. Germain, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Department of Microbiology
Center for Immunology
University of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Matthew F. Krummel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Immanuel Luescher, Ph.D.
Member
Molecular Immunology Group
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Anne O’Garra, Ph.D.
Head, Division of Immunoregulation
MRC National Institute for Medical Research
London, United Kingdom
William E. Paul, M.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Sergio Andres Quezada, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratorio de Immunopatologia
Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental (IBYME/CONICET)
Universidad di Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Surgery
Head, Tumor Immunology Section
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
Suzanne L. Topalian, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Oncology
Director, Melanoma Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Shannon J. Turley, Ph.D.
Associate Program Head, Graduate Program in Immunology
Cancer Immunology and AIDS
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Emil R. Unanue, M.D.
Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Danila Valmori, Ph.D.
Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer
Universite de Nantes
Nantes, France
Jedd Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Immunotherapy Clinical Trials
Associate Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Cassian Yee, M.D.
Associate Member, Program in Immunology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA