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Advances in Checkpoints Immunology from Autoimmunity to Oncology to Infectious Diseases - RESCHEDULED (RB1)


Organizer(s) David M. Lee, Arlene H. Sharpe and William H. Robinson
June 8—12, 2022
Fairmont Chateau Whistler • Whistler, BC Canada
Abstract Deadline: Apr 20, 2022
Scholarship Deadline: Oct 21, 2021
Discounted Registration Deadline: Apr 7, 2022

Sponsored by AbbVie Inc., Amgen Inc., BioLegend, Inc., Genmab A/S, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., MorphoSys AG, Surface Oncology and TCR² Therapeutics


Summary of Meeting:
Understanding of the mechanisms by which checkpoints regulate immune responses is burgeoning; molecular insights into checkpoint signaling, and complexities regarding degrees of checkpoint regulation in immune exhaustion vs. immune homeostasis are coming to light. The use of checkpoint antagonist therapeutics in Oncology has ushered in a transformation for treatment and led to major leaps in our understanding of checkpoint functions, both in health and in the context of immune responses to tumors. There are also rapidly emerging insights into the role of checkpoints in immune dysfunction seen in Autoimmune diseases, and checkpoint-targeted therapies for Autoimmune diseases are now in clinical studies. Further, treatment-associated autoimmunity syndromes comprise an important adverse event for cancer immunotherapy. While these syndromes are currently poorly understood, their analysis promises to shed new insights into improving tolerability of cancer treatment as well as into immune dysfunction in Autoimmune diseases. The meeting will provide a forum for cross-fertilization across disciplines, with a particular focus on Autoimmunity and will also include opportunities that stimulate new directions for investigation in Oncology and other diseases.

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The meeting will begin on Wednesday, June 8 with registration from 16:00 to 20:00 and a welcome mixer from 18:00 to 20:00. Conference events conclude on Sunday, June 12 with a closing plenary session from 17:00 to 19:00, followed by a social hour. We recommend return travel on Monday, June 13 in order to fully experience the meeting.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

16:00—20:00
Arrival and Registration

MacDonald Foyer
18:00—20:00
Welcome Mixer
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

MacDonald Foyer

THURSDAY, JUNE 9

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

MacDonald CDEF
08:00—09:00
Welcome and Keynote Address (8:00 am Start)

MacDonald A
* William H. Robinson, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Session Chair

Ira Mellman, Genentech, Inc., USA
Mechanistic Basis of Cancer Immunotherapy

08:00—09:00
Welcome and Keynote Address (8:00 am Start)

MacDonald B
* Catherine J. Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Session Chair

Rafi Ahmed, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
T Cell Functional State, from Viruses to Cancer

09:00—11:15
Advances in Checkpoint Biology I: Lymphocytes (9:00 am Start)

MacDonald A
* Arlene H. Sharpe, Harvard Medical School, USA
Session Chair

Chen Dong, Westlake University, School of Medicine, China
Remote Presentation: Factors that Regulate CD8+ T Cell Fates in Cancer

Coffee Break

Dietmar Zehn, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Molecular Recognition of T-Cell Exhaustion

David Bending, University of Birmingham, UK
Short Talk: Antigen and Checkpoint Receptor Engagement Recalibrates T Cell Receptor Signal Strength

Joseph Jae-Suk Kim, NYU School of Medicine, USA
Short Talk: The Role of TCR Affinity in Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade

Paolo D A Vignali, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Short Talk: Tumor Hypoxia Drives Suppressor Function in Exhausted T Cells Limiting Antitumor Immunity

09:00—11:15
Antigen Targets (9:00 am Start)

MacDonald B
* Catherine J. Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Session Chair

Benoît J. Van den Eynde, University of Louvain, Belgium
The Processing of Tumor Antigens for MHC Class I Presentation to CD8 T Cells

Coffee Break

Michal Bassani-Sternberg, University Hospital of Lausanne, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland
Mass Spectrometry and Proteogenomics Based Approaches for Antigen Detection

Sjoerd H. van der Burg, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Shared Neoantigens as T-Cell Targets for TAP-Impaired Tumors

Vinod Balachandran, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Short Talk: High Quality Neoantigens are Immunoedited in Long-Term Pancreatic Cancer Survivors

Matthew H. Bakalar, Broad Institute, USA
Short Talk: Novel Programmable Production of pMHC Libraries with Analysis by Mass Spectrometry Enables Targeted Profiling of Peptide-MHC Binding and Stability

11:15—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:15—13:00
Poster Setup

MacDonald CDEF
13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

MacDonald CDEF
14:30—16:30
Career Roundtable (Joint) (2:30 pm Start)

Empress AB
Ira Mellman, Genentech, Inc., USA

Gulbu Uzel, National Institutes of Health, USA

Alice O. Kamphorst, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Michal Bassani-Sternberg, University Hospital of Lausanne, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland

Mishtu Dey, Cell Press, USA

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

MacDonald Foyer
17:00—19:00
Cellular Interactions Critical to Effective Tumor Immunity (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald B
* Michal Bassani-Sternberg, University Hospital of Lausanne, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Switzerland
Session Chair

robert david schreiber, Washington University, USA
Remote Presentation: Spatial Proteome Analysis (CODEX) of Effective Cancer Immunotherapy

Jannie Borst, Leiden University, Netherlands
How CD4+ T Cell Help Optimizes Cytotoxic T Cell Responses in Cancer

Nir Hacohen, Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Spatially Organized Hubs of Immune Cells in Tumors

Giacomo Oliveira, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Short Talk: The Landscape of Helper and Regulatory antitumor CD4+ T cells in Human Melanoma

17:00—19:00
Emerging Clinical Insights into Checkpoint Contributions to Autoimmunity (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* William H. Robinson, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Checkpoints in B Cells

* Kevan C. Herold, Yale University, USA
Tissue/Immune Cell Interactions Leading to Autoimmunity (Diabetes) with Checkpoint Inhibitors

Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
New Views on ‘Traditional' Autoimmune Disease Informed by Checkpoint Antagonist Therapy

Ellen D. Kaan, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Short Talk: Identification of Potential Immune Inhibitory Receptors in Interferon Associated Systemic Autoimmune Disease

Zoltan Maliga, Harvard Medical School, USA
Short Talk: Molecular Characterization of Skin Toxicities from Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

MacDonald CDEF
19:30—22:00
Poster Session 1

MacDonald CDEF

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

MacDonald CDEF
08:00—11:00
Checkpoints in Autoimmunity: Genetic Insights and Innate Immunity Lineages(8:00 am Start)

MacDonald A
* Ferenc A. Scheeren, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
The Role of Glutaminyl Cyclase in Innate Immunity from Oncology to Infectious Disease

* Gulbu Uzel, National Institutes of Health, USA
Genetics 2—Insights from Human Checkpoint Mutations (both Autoimmunity and Immunodeficiency)

Coffee Break

Ben A. Youngblood, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Epigenetic Programs Regulating CD8 T Cell Responses during Immune Checkpoint Blockade

Sarah Weiss, Harvard University, USA
Short Talk: Deletion of an Exhaustion-associated PD-1 Enhancer Augments CD8+ T cell Function in Chronic Viral Infection and Improves Tumor Control

Linde Meyaard, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Short Talk: Inhibitory Pattern Recognition Receptors as a Novel Class of Immune Regulators Recognizing Endogenous and Microbial Patterns

08:00—11:00
Reprogramming the Microenvironment (8:00 am Start)

MacDonald B
* Kellie N. Smith, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Session Chair

Valerie Chew, SingHealth, Singapore
The microenvironments of Hepatitis B virus(HBV)-related Hepatocellular carcinoma

Matthew H. Spitzer, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Talk Title to be Announced

Coffee Break

Stefani Spranger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Not All T Cell Responses are Generated Equal: The Role of Dendritic Cells in Anti-Tumor Immunity

Abhijeet Pataskar, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Short Talk: Exploring IFN-mediated Tryptophan Depletion for the Identification of Inducible Cancer Neo-antigens

Aude-Helene Capietto, Genentech, Inc., USA
Short Talk: Neoantigen Targeted Therapy Promotes Expansion of T Follicular Helper CD4 T Cells and Induces Rejection of Established E0771 Breast Tumors in Mice

Nicolas Cuburu, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA
Short Talk: Harnessing Anti-Cytomegalovirus Immunity for Local Immunotherapy against Solid Tumors

Anna-Sophia Wiekmeijer, ISA Therapeutics BV, Netherlands
Short Talk: T Cell Inducing SLP Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 for Protection of Patients with Spontaneous or Therapy-Induced B Cell Deficiencies

11:00—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:00—13:00
Poster Setup

MacDonald CDEF
13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

MacDonald CDEF
14:30—16:30
Workshop 1: Emerging Checkpoints Insights: Basic and Animal Model Studies (2:30 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* Roarke A. Kamber, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Systematic Discovery of Mechanisms that Impede Macrophage Phagocytosis of Cancer Cells Using Inter-cellular CRISPR Screens

* Hrishi Venkatesh, University of Minnesota, USA
Targeted Therapy and Anti-PDL1 Checkpoint Blockade Elicit a CD4 T Cell Response that Eliminates B Cell Leukemia and Prevents Relapse

Michiel van der Vlist, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
CD200R+ Macrophages Resolve Inflammatory Pain Through Interaction with iSec1 on Sensory Neurons

Iryna Voloshyna, NYU School of Medicine, USA
Humanized FcγR (hFcyR) Mice as a Pre-clinical Model to Study Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced irAE

Elena Fueyo-Marcos, CNIO, Spain
Exploring the Potential of Selectively Killing PD-L1-Expressing Cells in Cancer Therapy

Martina Damo, University of Chicago, USA
Anti-PD-1 Disrupts Tolerance of Self-antigen-specific CD8 T Cells in Skin Causing Lichenoid irAEs

Abby E. Overacre, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Microbiota-specific T Follicular Helper Cells Drive Tertiary Lymphoid Structure Formation and Anti-tumor Immunity in Colorectal Cancer

14:30—16:30
Workshop (2:30 pm Start)

MacDonald B
* David A. Braun, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Session Chair

* Giacomo Oliveira, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Session Chair

Rosaria Chila, IFOM, The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Italy
Non-Canonical Neoantigens are the Largest Fraction of MHC I Peptides in Mismatch Repair Deficient Murine Colorectal Cancer

Zachary C. Hartman, Duke University, USA
Vaccination Targeting Mutant ESR1 Resistance Driver Neoepitopes to Immunologically Prevent and Suppress the Emergence of ER+ Endocrine Therapy-Resistant Breast Cancer

Alex M. Jaeger, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
Deciphering the Immunopeptidome in vivo Reveals Novel Tumor Antigens

Allison M. Kirk, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Developing T Cell Immunotherapies Targeting Conserved Fusion Neoantigens in Fibrolamellar Carcinoma

Ana Marcu, Genentech Inc., USA
The HLA Ligand Atlas: Defining Actionable Targets for T-Cell-Based Immunotherapy

Mark J. McCarron, Genentech, Inc., USA
The Phenotype of the T Cell Response against Weak Antigens is Altered by the Presence of Strong T Cell Responses against Immunodominant Antigens

Christian Seca, University of Liege, Belgium
Wobble tRNA Modification Regulates Melanoma Immune Response

Sri Krishna, National Cancer Institute, USA
Impact of Neoantigen-Specific T Cell Phenotypes on Cellular Immunotherapies Targeting Metastatic Solid Tumors

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

MacDonald Foyer
17:00—18:45
Advances in Checkpoint Biology II: Immune Exhaustion and Immunometabolism (5pm Start)

MacDonald A
* Rafi Ahmed, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
TGF-beta Regulates the Quiescence and Differentiation of PD-1+ TCF-1+ Stem-like CD8 T Cells during Chronic Infection

* Weiping Zou, University of Michigan, USA
Metabolic Impact on Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy

Christopher E. Rudd, University of Montreal, Canada
Short Talk: Glycogen Synthase Kinase (GSK-3) Inhibition Generates CD8 Super-armed Killers in its Synergy with PD-1/PDL1 Blockade in Tumor Immunity

Sabelo M. Lukhele, University Health Network, Canada
Short Talk: IRF2-mediated Inhibition of Interferon Signaling Drives CD8 T Cell Exhaustion to Prevent Long-term Cancer Control

Andrew Frisch, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Short Talk: Redirecting Glucose Flux During In Vitro Expansion Improves the In Vivo Performance of Adoptive T Cell Therapies for Cancer

17:00—19:00
Immune Targeting against Viral Antigens (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald B
* Susan E. Klaeger, Broad Institute, USA
Session Chair

Helen Heslop, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's, USA
Adoptive Transfer of Virus Specific T Cells

Cornelis J. M. Melief, Leiden University Medical Center & ISA Pharmaceuticals BV, Netherlands
Vaccines Targeting HPV Antigens

Kellie N. Smith, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Discovery and Characterization of Tumor-Reactive TIL

Derin Benerci Keskin, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Short Talk: Reversal of Viral and Epigenetic HLA Class I Repression in Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Michael C. Brown, Duke University, USA
Short Talk: Intratumor Childhood Vaccine-specific CD4+ T Cell Recall Coordinates Antitumor Type I and II Immunity

Esmé van der Gracht, ISA Therapeutics, Netherlands
Remote Presentation: Short Talk: A Third Vaccination with a Single T Cell Epitope Protects against Lethal SARS-CoV-2 Infection

18:45—19:30
Panel Discussion: New Directions in Checkpoint Biology: Major Gaps and Emerging Insights (6:45 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* Arlene H. Sharpe, Harvard Medical School, USA
Session Chair

Weiping Zou, University of Michigan, USA

Jennifer Guerriero, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA

David A. Hafler, Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Bali Pulendran, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Ira Mellman, Genentech, Inc., USA

19:30—20:30
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

MacDonald CDEF
19:30—22:00
Poster Session 2

MacDonald CDEF

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

MacDonald CDEF
08:00—11:00
Immunoregulation and Immunosuppression (Joint) (8:00 am Start)

MacDonald AB
* Thomas Gajewski, University of Chicago, USA
The Tumor Microenvironment and Immunotherapy Efficacy

Hussein Sultan, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Unexpected Complexity of Neoantigen Specific Synthetic Long Peptide Cancer Vaccines: Potential for Induction of Tumor Specific Immunosuppressive CD4+ T cells

Coffee Break

Jennifer Guerriero, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Elucidating Macrophage Diversity to Uncover Novel Anti-cancer Therapeutic Strategies

David A. Hafler, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Transcriptional Mechanism of FoxP3+ Treg Dysfunction in Human Autoimmune Disease

Jessica Stark, Stanford University, USA
Short Talk: Antibody-lectin Bispecifics for Glyco-immune Checkpoint Blockade

Andreas Wieland, Ohio State University, USA
Short Talk: Defining HPV-Specific B Cell Responses in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

11:00—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:00—13:00
Poster Setup

MacDonald CDEF
13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

MacDonald CDEF
15:00—16:30
Workshop 2: Emerging Checkpoints Insights: Translational and Clinic Studies (3:00 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* Kate Carbone, Genentech, Inc., USA
Surveillance of in situ Tumor Arrays Reveals Early Environmental Control of Cancer Immunity

* Zhi Liang Chu, Crossignal Therapeutics, Inc., USA
TMER1: A Treg Cell Expressed, Hippo-YAP Regulating GPCR as a Novel Target for Cancer Immunotherapy Drug Development

Jenna Lynn Collier, Harvard University, USA
PD-1 Blockade Drives T Cell Transcriptional States in NOD Mice that are Comparable to T Cells in NOD Mice with Spontaneous Autoimmune Diabetes

David R. Glass, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA
Multi-omic Analysis of Cutaneous T Cell Lymphomas Reveals Broad Changes in Cellular Immunity Induced by Mono- and Combination Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy

Akashdip Singh, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Cancer Immunotherapy by NC410, a LAIR-2 Fc Protein Blocking Human LAIR-collagen Interaction

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

MacDonald Foyer
17:00—19:00
Checkpoints in Autoimmunity: Function and Dysfunction in Disease (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* Bali Pulendran, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Systems Biological Analysis of Immunity to COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination

* Eoin McKinney, Cambridge University, UK
Lymphocyte Exhaustion State in Autoimmune Disease X: Integrating Functional Status across Active Checkpoints

David M. Lee, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, USA
Co-inhibitory Modulators In Autoimmunity: The Complex Path From Concept to Therapeutic Candidates

Chris Paluch, MiroBio Ltd, UK
Short Talk: A BTLA Agonist Antibody for the Treatment of Autoimmune Disease

Yang Zhao, Janssen Immunology Discovery, USA
Short Talk: VISTA is a Checkpoint Receptor Target for Autoimmune Diseases

17:00—19:00
Combination Therapy with Oncolytic Virus and Viral Delivery Systems (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald B
* Jennifer Guerriero, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Session Chair

Matthias Gromeier, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
Cancer Immunotherapy through Endogenous Type-I IFN Dominant Signaling in Dendritic Cells

Klaus Früh, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Harnessing the Unique Immune Biology of Cytomegalovirus for Cancer Immunotherapy

E. Antonio Chiocca, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Clinical Trials of Oncolytic Virus- and Gene-based Immunotherapy: Human Evidence of Changes in the Tumor Immune Microenvironment

Kristin DePeaux, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Short Talk: Overcoming Microenvironmental Resistance to Oncolytic Virus Immunotherapy with Virus-encoded Delivery of a Potent TGFß Inhibitor

Emma Wagner, University of Cambridge, UK
Short Talk: Role of Innate Immune DNA Sensing in Response to Oncolytic Virus Therapy

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

MacDonald CDEF
19:30—22:00
Poster Session 3

MacDonald CDEF

SUNDAY, JUNE 12

07:00—08:00
Breakfast

MacDonald CDEF
08:00—11:00
Checkpoints in Oncology—Treatment Effectiveness, Include CAR T, States of Immune Exhaustion in I O, and Combo Approaches (8:00 am Start)

MacDonald A
Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Remote Presentation: Immune-related Adverse Events with Checkpoint Inhibitors'

* Charles G. Drake, Janssen, USA
Talk Title to be Announced

Coffee Break

Arlene H. Sharpe, Harvard Medical School, USA
Defining Regulators of Immunity to Infections and Tumors using in vivo CRISPR Screens

Alex C. McPherson, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Short Talk: Exploring the Mechanisms of how Commensal Bacteria Colonize Gut-distal Melanoma Tumors and Impact Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Efficacy

Chun Wai Wong, University of Manchester, UK
Short Talk: Inhibition of PARP14 Restores Response to Anti-PD1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibition

08:00—11:15
Vaccines in Cancer and Other Non Infectious Syndromes (8:00 am Start)

MacDonald B
* Cornelis J. M. Melief, Leiden University Medical Center & ISA Pharmaceuticals BV, Netherlands
Session Chair

Gerald P. Linette, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dendritic-Based Targeting of Tumor Neoantigens

Jan David Beck, BioNTech SE, Germany
Combining RNA-encoded Interleukin-2 with Antibodies Overcomes Resistance in MHC Class I-deficient Cancer

Coffee Break

Catherine J. Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
SLPs for Personal Neoantigen-Targeting Vaccines

Megan L. Burger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Short Talk: Antigen Dominance Hierarchies Shape Anti-tumor T Cell Phenotypes and Immunotherapy Response

Ann-Jay Tong, Genentech, Inc., USA
Short Talk: Molecular Determinants of Effective Neoantigen-specific T Cell Responses Following Vaccination

Anna Morena D'Alise, Nouscom Srl, Italy
Short Talk: Viral Vectored Vaccines Targeting Tumor Neoantigens Elicit Potent and Effective Anti-tumor Immune Response

Najla Arshad, Yale University, USA
Short Talk: Discovery of Immunogenic, Tumor-Associated Peptides Presented by Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I in a Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Cell Line

David A. Braun, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Short Talk: A Personalized Neoantigen Vaccination Incorporating Locally Delivered Ipilimumab Induces Tumor-specific Immunity in Renal Cell Carcinoma

11:00—17:00
On Own for Lunch

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

MacDonald Foyer
17:00—18:00
Checkpoints Insights from Infectious Diseases and Environmental Triggers (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* Georg Lauer, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Checkpoint Signaling and Phenotype in Chronic Viral Infections

* Alice O. Kamphorst, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Strength of CD28 Costimulation Directs Self-Renewal and Differentiation of TCF-1+ PD-1+ CD8 T Cells

Susan E. McClory, University of Pennsylvania/CHOP, USA
Short Talk: Trib1 Inhibits Viral-specific T Cell Responses during Chronic Infection by Promoting Terminal Exhaustion

17:00—18:45
Novel Combinatorial Approaches (5:00 pm Start)

MacDonald B
* Gerald P. Linette, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Session Chair

David E. Avigan, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Integrating a Personalized Cancer Vaccine with Cellular Immunotherapy

Ravi Uppaluri, BWH, USA
Neoadjuvant PD1 Therapy

Brooke Huisman, MIT, USA
Short Talk: Characterizing the Peptide Repertoire of HLA-E and Natural Killer Cell Receptors via Yeast Display

Marcus Bosenberg, Yale University, USA
Short Talk: Epigenetic Regulation of Endogenous Retroelement Expression Modulates Anti-cancer Immune Responses

Christianne Groeneveldt, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Short Talk: Repurposing Reovirus-specific T Cells as Antitumor Effector Cells

18:00—18:45
Panel Discussion: Targeting Checkpoints in Human Disease: Gaps for Translation and Opportunities Ahead (6:00 pm Start)

MacDonald A
* David M. Lee, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, USA
Session Chair

Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Charles G. Drake, Janssen, USA

Georg Lauer, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Alice O. Kamphorst, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

18:45—19:00
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) (7:00 pm Start)

MacDonald A
18:45—19:00
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) (6:45 pm Start)

MacDonald B
19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

MacDonald CDEF

MONDAY, JUNE 13

 
Departure


*Session Chair †Invited, not yet responded.



Keystone Symposia thanks our Sponsors(s) for generously supporting this meeting:

AbbVie Inc. Amgen Inc.
BioLegend, Inc. Genmab A/S
Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MorphoSys AG
Surface Oncology TCR² Therapeutics

We gratefully acknowledge additional support from these exhibitors at this conference:

BioLegend, Inc. Rules Based Medicine, a Q2 Solutions Company
Please stop by to meet these exhibitors during the conference.


We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:

Science Immunology / AAAS

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Genentech, Inc.


Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson


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