|
|
|

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 Transcript Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3)
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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 9:30 a.m. |
Adrian Hayday |
|
Kings College School of Medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, UK |
|
Molecules regulating the immunosurveillance of tissues Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 11:00 a.m. |
Glenn Dranoff |
|
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA |
|
Balancing tumor immunity and inflammation Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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? Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 2:30 p.m. |
Hy Levitsky |
|
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD |
|
Lymphocyte homeostasis and tumor-specific immunity during immune reconstitution Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 4:00 p.m. |
Padmanee Sharma |
|
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
|
Immunologic impact of anti-CTLA-4 antibody Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 2:30 p.m. |
Vincenzo Bronte |
|
Istituto Oncologico Veneto and Venetian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy |
|
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 9:30 a.m. |
Michel Sadelain |
|
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
|
Targeting tumors with genetically enhanced T lymphocytes Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 12:00 a.m. |
Kristen Hege |
|
Cell Genesys, Inc., South San Francisco, CA |
|
Potential biomarkers of response to GVAX immunotherapy for prostate cancer Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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”) Abstract Play Audio in Browser Download Audio (.mp3) |
|
|
| 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 Abstract Play Audio (Pt. 1) in Browser Download Audio (Pt. 1) (.mp3) Play Audio (Pt. 2) in Browser Download Audio (Pt. 2) (.mp3) |
Next to Meeting Venue >>
<< Back to Symposium 2008 Main Page
|
|
|
|