Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference: Tumor Immunology & Immunotherapy

Website：http://www.csh-asia.org/2017meetings/Immune.html

Date：Oct. 22-26, 2017

Place: Suzhou, China

 

Organizers: Xuetao Cao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China Vincenzo Cerundolo, University of Oxford, UK Olivera Finn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Pramod Srivastava, University of Connecticut, USA

 

Major topics：

1. Defining tumor antigens and immunogenicity
2. Immune checkpoint blockade and antibody therapy
3. Adoptive T cell therapy
4. Vaccine-based immunotherapy
5. Gut microbiota, immunity and cancer
6. Inflammation, tumor microenvironment and immune escape
7. New approach to cancer immunotherapy

Keynote Speakers:

Robert Schreiber, Washington University, School of Medicine, USA
Laurence Zitvogel, Institut Gustave Roussy(IGR), FRANCE 

 

Invited Speakers:

Jay Berzofsky, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA
Abstract title: Cancer vaccines and immunotherapy: translation from mice to human clinical trials 
Renier Brentjens, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Xuetao Cao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, CHINA
Vincenzo Cerundolo, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Abstract title: Amino acid degrading enzymes and their role in tumour immune escape mechanisms 
Adelheid Cerwenka, German Cancer Research Center, GERMANY
Phillip Darcy, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, AUSTRALIA
Olivera Finn, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Yang-Xin Fu, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Abstract title: Targeting tumor cells to trigger immunity 
Dmitry Gabrilovich, The Wistar Institute, USA
Guido Kroemer, Institute Gustav Roussy, FRANCE
Alberto Mantovani, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, ITALY
Abstract title: The yin-yang of innate immunity, inflammation and cancer 
Augusto Ochoa, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA
Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Hospital, CANADA
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, University of Maryland, USA
Abstract title: Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC): Their ying and yang effects in tumor-bearing obese mice 
Bruce Robinson, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
Abstract title: Augmenting and broadening T-cell responses against mutated tumor neo-antigens 
Pramod Srivastava, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine, USA
Zhigang Tian, University of Science & Technology of China, CHINA
Abstract title: TIGIT blockade prevents NK cell exhaustion and elicits potent anti-tumor immunity 
Dario Vignali, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Weiping Zou, University of Michigan Medical School, USA

 

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