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Program: Tuesday, February 25

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tuesday, february 25

Tuesday, February 25

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

7-8 a.m.

Major Symposia 4-5 

8-9:30 a.m. | CME Eligible

Major Symposium 4: Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy 

Session Chair: Christian Blank, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • 8:05 a.m.
    Tina Cascone, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
  • 8:25 a.m.
    Georgina V. Long, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Christian Blank
  • 9:05 a.m. | Discussion / Q&A

Major Symposium 5: Myeloid Cell Checkpoints 

Session Chair: Miriam Merad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

  • 8:05 a.m.
    Ido Amit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  • 8:25 a.m.
    Florent Ginhoux, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Miriam Merad
  • 9:05 a.m. | Discussion / Q&A

BREAK

9:30-9:50 a.m.

Major SymposiA 6-7 

10-11:30 a.m. | CME Eligible

Major Symposium 6: CAR T Cells for Solid Tumors 

Session Chair: Robert Vonderheide, Penn Medicine Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • 10:05 a.m.
    Speaker to be announced
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Speaker to be announced
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Marcela V. Maus
  • 11:05 a.m. | Discussion / Q&A

Major Symposium 6: Inflammation and Cancer 

Session Chair: Marcela V. Maus, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

  • 10:05 a.m.
    Michael Karin, University of California, San Diego, California
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Robert H. Vonderheide
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Lola Eniola-Adefeso, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • 11:05 a.m. | Discussion / Q&A

BREAK

11:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

keynote session 3

12-1 p.m. | CME Eligible

Session Chair: Philip D. Greenberg, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington

  • 12:05 p.m.
    Crystal L. Mackall, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
  • 12:35 p.m.
    Carl H. June, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Spotlight on Proffered Papers Session 2

1-1:45 p.m.

Poster Session B / Exhibit Show / Lunch

1:45-4:45 p.m.

spotlight SESSIONS 3 AND 4

5-6:20 p.m. | CME Eligible

Spotlight Session 3: Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Cancer

Session Chair: Daniela Thommen, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • 5:05 p.m.
    Alice O. Kamphorst, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
  • 5:25 p.m.
    Daniela Thommen
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina
  • 6:05 p.m. | Discussion / Q&A

Spotlight Session 4: CAR-T in vivo Delivery 

Session Chair: Michael Birnbaum, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • 5:05 p.m.
    Michael Birnbaum
  • 5:25 p.m.
    Saar Gill, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Jennifer Hamilton, University of California, Berkeley, California
  • 6:05 p.m. | Discussion / Q&A

evening off

6:20 p.m.