Agenda

Frontiers In Cancer Immunotherapy

Tuesday, June 22, 2027, 8:30 AM - Wednesday, June 23, 2027, 5:30 PM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Check-In and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM

Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences
 

9:15 AM - 9:55 AM
Day 1 Opening Keynote Address

9:15 AM

Day 1 Opening Keynote Address: The Interception Revolution: Mobilizing T Cells Against Pre-Malignancy and Malignancy Recurrence
Elizabeth Jaffee, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine

9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
Networking Coffee Break
10:25 AM - 11:55 AM
Session I: Immunometabolism and Resistance in Cancer Immunotherapy: From Response to Long-Term Control

Chairperson: To be announced

10:25 AM

“Hot" Tumors and Heat in Immunity
Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD, University of Chicago 

10:55 AM

Immunometabolic Barriers in Cancer
Greg Delgoffe, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

11:25 PM 

T Cell Responses to Infection and Tumors Across Space and Time 
Ananda Goldrath, PhD, University of California at San Diego

11:55 AM - 12:40 PM
Session II: Short Talks From Selected Abstracts
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Networking Lunch and Poster Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Session III: In Vivo Immune Engineering

Chairperson: To be announced

2:00 PM

Speaker to be announced

2:30 PM

Speaker to be announced

3:00 PM
Justin Eyquem, PhD, University of California, San Francisco 

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Networking Break
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Session IV: Translational Medicine - Real World Experience and Role of Survivor Partnerships

Chairperson: To be announced

4:00 PM
Thomas Marron, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

4:30 PM

Panel Discussion: Researchers’ Secret Weapon – Survivor Partnerships Driving Innovation, Media, and Funding
Moderator: Thomas Marron, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Panelists:
Kristen Dahlgren, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Additional panelists to be announced

5:10 PM

Closing Remarks

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Check-In and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM

Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences

9:05 AM - 9:45 AM
Day 2 Opening Keynote Address

9:05 AM
Bernard Fox, PhD, Providence Cancer Institute

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Networking Break
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Session V: Insights from Spatial Biology

Chairperson: To be announced

10:15 AM

Speaker to be announced

10:45 AM
Jennifer Guerriero, PhD, Harvard Medical School

11:15 PM 
Caius Radu, MD, University of California, Los Angeles

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Session VI: Brief Industry Updates

 

 

12:15 PM - 1:20 PM
Networking Lunch and Poster Session
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Session VII: Inflammation, Aging, and Immune Dysfunction

Chairperson: To be announced

1:20 PM

Clonal Hematopoiesis as a Modulator of Solid Tumor Biology and Therapeutic Response
Ross Levine, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

1:50 PM

Inflammaging Checkpoints
Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD, Yale University

2:20 PM 

The Age of Resistance: Uncovering How Aging Shapes Antitumor Immunity in Pancreatic Cancer
Daniel Zabransky, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Medicine

 

2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Networking Coffee Break
3:20 PM - 4:50 PM
Session VIII: Cell Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Chairperson: To be announced

3:20 PM

The Geography of Immune Responses in Acute Leukemia 
Iannis Aifantis, PhD, NYU Langone Health

3:50 PM
Brian Betts, MD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

4:20 PM 
Speaker to be announced

4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
Closing Keynote Address

4:50 PM

Closing Keynote Address
Crystal Mackall, MD, Stanford Medicine

5:25 PM

Closing Remarks
Cassie Chartier, PhD, The New York Academy of Sciences 

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