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Monday, September 15, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 

Day 1, September 15, 2008
Opening Remarks and 75th Birthday Tribute to Lloyd J. Old, M.D.
Jill O'Donnell-Tormey
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Session I: Cancer Immunoediting and Cancer and Inflammation
9:00 a.m. Robert D. Schreiber
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Cancer immunoediting: Molecular pathways to possible novel therapeutic interventions
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9:30 a.m. Adrian Hayday
Kings College School of Medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, UK
Molecules regulating the immunosurveillance of tissues
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10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Mark J. Smyth
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia
Cancer immunoediting: Recent progress in elimination and equilibrium
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11:00 a.m. Glenn Dranoff
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Balancing tumor immunity and inflammation
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11:30 a.m. Wolf H. Fridman
INSERM, University Paris Descartes and University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Shaping an efficient adaptive immune microenvironment in human cancer
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12:00 p.m. Lunch
Session II: Immunological Consequences of Current Cancer Therapy
2:00 p.m. Laurence Zitvogel
Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
Is an anticancer immune response mandatory for therapeutic success?
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2:30 p.m. Hy Levitsky
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Lymphocyte homeostasis and tumor-specific immunity during immune reconstitution
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3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. Jeffrey V. Ravetch
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
A general mechanism for anti-tumor therapy based on Fc receptor engagement
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4:00 p.m. Padmanee Sharma
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Immunologic impact of anti-CTLA-4 antibody 
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Day 2, September 16, 2008
Session III: Cross Presentation and Tumor Stroma
9:00 a.m. Michael J. Bevan
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Antigen presentation and the T-cell response
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9:30 a.m. Pramod K. Srivastava
University of Connecticut Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases, Farmington, CT 
Molecular nature of the antigenic entity transferred from antigen donor cell to antigen presenting cells during cross presentation
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10:00 a.m. Günter J. Hämmerling
German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Control of tumor immunity by the microenvironment: Overcoming the tumor endothelial barrier
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10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. George Coukos
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Open sesame: The endothelin (B) receptor mediates the tumor endothelial barrier to T-cell homing
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11:30 a.m. Ellen Puré
The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA;
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York, NY
Targeting a stromal cell protease inhibits tumor growth
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12:00 p.m. Lunch
Session IV: Modulators of Immune Escape Mechanisms
2:00 p.m. James P. Allison
Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Checkpoint blockade in tumor therapy: New insights and opportunities
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2:30 p.m. Vincenzo Bronte
Istituto Oncologico Veneto and Venetian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer
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3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. Michail V. Sitkovsky
N.E. Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
The hypoxia-adenosinergic protection of tumors from anti-tumor T lymphocytes
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4:00 p.m. Arlene H. Sharpe
Harvard Medical School and Bringham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
PD-1, PD-L1 and their ligands: Regulating the balance between T-cell activation and tolerance
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POSTER SESSION – 5:00 p.m., 8th Floor


Day 3, September 17, 2008
Session V: Adoptive Immunotherapy
9:00 a.m. Carl June
Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Updates in adoptive T cell therapy
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9:30 a.m. Michel Sadelain
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Targeting tumors with genetically enhanced T lymphocytes
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10:00 a.m. Cassian Yee
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Adoptive T cell therapy: Back to the future
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10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
Session VI: Biomarkers and Novel Clinical Parameters in Immunotherapeutic Clinical Trials
11:00 a.m. David Berman
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Potential biomarkers of immune activation in Ipilimumab-treated patients with advanced melanoma
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11:30 a.m. Sacha Gnjatic
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Identification of immunogenic markers in pancreatic and ovarian cancer by seromics
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12:00 a.m. Kristen Hege
Cell Genesys, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Potential biomarkers of response to GVAX immunotherapy for prostate cancer
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12:30 a.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Jedd Wolchok
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
New response criteria for immunotherapy to capture response patterns in advanced melanoma patients treated with Ipilimumab: Results from two phase II trials 
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2:30 p.m. Cecile Gouttefangeas
University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Harmonized T-cell monitoring assays as biomarkers for immunotherapy trials: A data driven approach by the CIMT Immunoguiding Program (“CIP”)
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3:00 p.m. Frederic Lehmann
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium
Clinical response to the MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic in metastatic melanoma patients is associated with a specific gene profile present prior to treatment
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