2017 Cancer Immunotherapy Symposium


The 2017 Cancer Immunotherapy Symposium was held on Thursday, April 20, 2017.
Please enjoy the featured talks below. Thank you!

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Organizer Welcome


Ida Deichaite, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center




CTLA-4 Blockade as Treatment for Relapse after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation


Ted Ball, MD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center



Natural Killer Cell Therapies for Treatment of Refractory Malignancies


Dan Kaufman, MD, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center




Translational Oncology & Biomarker Development for the Era of Combination Cancer Immunotherapy


Terri McClanahan, PhD
Merck Research Labs




Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors: Next Generation Studies


Sandip Patel, MD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center




Unveiling New Molecular Biomarkers for Immunotherapy Using Immunosequencing


Catherine Sanders, MT, PhD
Adaptive Biotechnologies




Targeting Macrophage PI3kinase Signaling to Suppress Tumor Progression


Judy Varner, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center




Predicting response to immune checkpoint inhibition using comprehensive genomic profiling and Tumor Mutation Burden (TMB)


Allison Welsh, PhD
Foundation Medicine Inc.




Junior Scientist Presentation: Novel Macrophage Based Immuno-Oncology Therapies


Megan Kaneda, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center






Keynote Speaker
Genetically Modified T-Cell Therapies for Cancer

Hyam Levitsky, MD
Juno Therapeutics

[+] Biography



Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase pathway and checkpoint inhibition

Shilpa Alekar, MD
Pfizer

[+] Biography



CTLA-4 Blockade as Treatment for Relapse after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Ted Ball, MD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



CIRM Funding Opportunities in the IO Space

Ingrid Caras, PhD &

Sohel Talib, PhD
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

[+] Biographies



Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer

Ezra Cohen, MD, FRCPSC, FASCO
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



Introduction

Ida Deichaite, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



Immunotherapy in Oncology : a multi-dimensional approach to biomarkers with Oncomine Assays

Fiona Hyland
Thermo Fisher Scientific

[+] Biography



Updates on Novel Preclinical Models for Immunotherapies for Prostate Cancer

Christina Jamieson, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



Natural Killer Cell Therapies for Treatment of Refractory Malignancies

Dan Kaufman, MD, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



Translational Oncology & Biomarker Development for the Era of Combination Cancer Immunotherapy

Terri McClanahan, PhD
Merck Research Labs

[+] Biography



Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors: Next Generation Studies

Sandip Patel, MD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



Unveiling New Molecular Biomarkers for Immunotherapy Using Immunosequencing

Catherine Sanders, MT, PhD
Adaptive Biotechnologies

[+] Biography



Towards Precision Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors

Stephen Schoenberger, PhD
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Human Longevity, Inc.

[+] Biography



Development of ICT-107, A Novel Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

Steven Swanson, PhD
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics

[+] Biography



Beyond Immune Checkpoint Inhibition: Development of a 4-1BB Agonist mAb, utomilumab

Aron Thall, PhD
Pfizer

[+] Biography



hnCD16-iNK Cell Product: Off-the-Shelf NK Cell Cancer Immunotherapy Derived from an Engineered Pluripotent Cell Line

Bob Valamehr, PhD
Fate Therapeutics

[+] Biography



Targeting Macrophage PI3kinase Signaling to Suppress Tumor Progression

Judith Varner, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



Predicting response to immune checkpoint inhibition using comprehensive genomic profiling and Tumor Mutation Burden (TMB)

Allison Welsh, PhD
Foundation Medicine

[+] Biography



Junior Scientist Presentation: Novel Macrophage Based Immuno-Oncology Therapies

Megan Kaneda, PhD
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

[+] Biography



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