October 31 - November 2, 2008
Westin Gaslamp Quarter Hotel
San Diego, CA
Presentation Slides & Schedule
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Wednesday, October 29 | |||
11:00 am - 7:00 pm | Registration Open | ||
Thursday, October 30 | |||
6:30 am - 6:00 pm | Registration Open | ||
Friday, October 31 | |||
6:30 am - 5:00 pm | Registration Open | ||
10:00 am - 4:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open | ||
10:00 am - 7:30 pm | Poster Hall Open | ||
7:50 am - 8:00 am | President's Welcome Jon M. Wigginton, MD - Merck & Co., Inc. |
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8:00 am - 8:45 am | Richard V. Smalley, MD Memorial Lectureship Different Tumor Antigens in the Immunotherapy of Cancer: Are we Selecting the Right Target? ![]() |
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8:45 am - 11:30 am | Plenary Session: Enhancing Cancer Vaccines
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8:45 am - 9:15 am | Enhancing Cancer Vaccines Through Heterologous Prime Boost Strategies that Include VRP and that Induce Lifelong Protection from Prostate Cancer and Therapy of Cervical Cancer in Mice and Robust Cell-Mediated Immunity in Rhesus Macaques![]() |
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9:15 am - 9:30 am | Interleukin-15 and its Receptor Enhance Antitumor Activity Following a Genetically-Modified Dendritic Cell Vaccine Jason C. Steel, PhD - National Cancer Institute, Metabolism Branch, NIH |
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9:30 am - 9:45 am | T Cell Receptor-Dependent and Independent Pathways Control PD-1 Expression on CD8+ T cells Generated upon Intra Lymph Node Immunization![]() |
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9:45 am - 10:00 am | Cellular Immunotherapy and Immune Regulation in Ovarian Cancer![]() |
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10:00 am - 10:15 am | Intra-Lymphatic Continuous Infusion of Dendritic Cells in Patients with Advanced Melanoma: Early Indication of Clinical Efficacy Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute |
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10:45 am - 11:00 am | Clinical Response to the MAGE-A3 Immunotherapeutic in Metastatic Melanoma Patients is Associated with a Specific Gene Expression Profile Present at the Tumor Site Jamila Louahed, PhD - GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA |
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11:00 am - 11:30 am | Balancing Tumor Immunity and Inflammation Glenn Dranoff, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch with Poster Viewing | ||
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Plenary Session: Adoptive Transfer
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1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Three Ways to Enhance the Destructive Power of Tumor-Specific T Cells![]() |
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1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Engineering GVL by T-Cell Genetic Modification![]() |
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2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Targeted Elimination of Brain Tumor Stem Cells with T Cell Therapies Christine Brown, PhD - City of Hope National Medical Center |
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2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Intralesional Placement of Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells After Resection of Primary Glioblastoma Robert O. Dillman, MD, FACP - Hoag Cancer Center |
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2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Provision of CD4+ T Cell Help Prevents Tolerization of Tumor-Specific CTLs and
Enhances Tumor Immunity in a Murine Model of Prostate Cancer Kimberly A. Shafer-Weaver, PhD - SAIC/NCI-Frederick |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Rapid Expansion of Melanoma TIL in Adoptive Cell Therapy Leads to Loss of CD28 and
Reduced Proliferative Potential in the MART-1-Specific T Cell Population![]() |
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3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Concurrent Session I: TH-17, Cytokines and T Cell Subsets
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3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | IL-23 Promotes Tumor Associated Inflammation and Subverts Immune Surveillance![]() |
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3:40 pm - 4:05 pm | Potent Anti-Tumor Immunity and Both TH-1 and TH-17 Promotion Associated with
IL-23 Administration![]() |
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4:05 pm - 4:30 pm | TH-17 Cells in Ovarian Cancer Patients Ilona Kryczek, PhD - University of Michigan |
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4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | CD40 Dependent Induction of TH-17 Effector Cells from T Regulatory Cells Using the
Immune Modulator B7-DC XAb Suresh Radhakrishnan, PhD - Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine This abstract was fully retracted May 28, 2010 upon request of the Principal Investigator. |
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3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Concurrent Session II: Endpoints, Response Criteria for Clinical Trial Design
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3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Immunotherapies in Combination with Other Therapeutic Modalties: New Paradigms for Clinical Trial Design Jeffrey Schlom, PhD - National Cancer Institute, NIH |
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3:40 pm - 3:55 pm | Overall Survival and New Patterns of Response in Patients with Advanced Melanoma Treated with Ipilimumab![]() |
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3:55 pm - 4:15 pm | Endpoints for Biologic Therapeutics in Oncology![]() |
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4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Panel Discussion | ||
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | iSBTc Membership Business Meeting (iSBTc Members Only) | ||
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Reception with Poster Viewing | ||
Saturday, November 1 | |||
7:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration Open | ||
7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | ||
8:00 am - 8:45 am | Keynote Address Cancer Immunoediting: Distinct Roles for Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Cancer Control and Promotion ![]() |
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8:45 am - 11:30 am | Plenary Session: Tumor Escape / Tumor Microenvironment
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8:45 am - 9:15 am | Innate Immune Signals that Mediate Host Awareness of Tumor and Promote Adaptive
Immune Responses Against Tumor Antigens![]() |
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9:15 am - 9:30 am | Persistent High Grade Cervical Dysplasia Excludes CD8+ T Cells Cornelia Trimble, MD - Johns Hopkins University |
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9:30 am - 10:00 am | Inhibitory B7 Family Members (B7-H1 and B7-H4) in the Tumor Microenvironment![]() |
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10:00 am - 10:15 am | L-Arginine Availability Regulates Cyclin D3 mRNA Stability in Human T Cells by Controlling HuR Expression Paulo C. Rodriguez, PhD - Louisiana State University Health Science Center |
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10:45 am - 11:15 am | Correcting the Anergy of Human Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes? Pierre van der Bruggen, PhD - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research |
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11:15 am - 11:30 am | Evidence for Selection of a Resistant Tumor Microenvironment Following Successful Clinical Response to a Multi-Peptide + IL-12 Melanoma Vaccine![]() |
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch with Poster Viewing | ||
1:00 pm - 2:20 pm | iSBTc Presidential Abstract Session
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1:00 pm - 1:20 pm | Increasing Immunostimulatory Ability of Tolerogenic APCs Enhances Anti-Tumor Immunity Stephanie K. Watkins, PhD - National Cancer Institute - Frederick, NIH |
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1:20 pm - 1:40 pm | CCL28 a New Link Between Hypoxia Angiogenesis and Tumor Immune Evasion![]() |
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1:40 pm - 2:00 pm | Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte-associated Antigen 4 Blockade Enhances Polyfunctional NY-ESO-1 Specific T Cell Responses in Metastatic Melanoma Patients with Tumor Regression![]() |
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2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Radiofrequency Ablation with KS-IL2 Immunocytokine (EMD 273066) Results in an Enhanced Antitumor Effect Against Murine Colon Adenocarcinoma![]() |
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2:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Concurrent Session I: Tumor Targeting Monoclonal Antibodies
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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Antibody and Small Moldular Immune Pharmaceutical Therapies for Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Major Step Forward![]() |
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3:15 pm - 3:30 pm | Phase I/II Study of CR011-vcMMAE, an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeting GPNMB, for the Treatment of Patients with Advanced Melanoma![]() |
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Optimizing Engagement of the Immune System by Anti-Tumor Antibodies![]() |
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Cetuximab Mediated Antibody Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity by NK Cells Expressing Polymorphic Fc Gamma Receptor (FcyR)IIIa Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute |
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2:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Concurrent Session II: Innate Immunity to Tumors
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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm |
Innate Resistance, Inflammation, and Cancer Giorgio Trinchieri, MD - National Cancer Institute |
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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm |
Role of NKG2D in Tumor Surveillance![]() |
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3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Innate Immunity Can Contribute to the Shaping of Tumor Immunogenicity in the Absence of Adaptive Immunity![]() |
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Spontaneous CTL-mediated Rejection of GP33-positive Lewis Lung Carcinoma is Dependent on an IFNAR Competent Environment Ulrich Kalinke, PhD - TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research |
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4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Update: 2007 Workshop on Future Opportunities for Combination Biological Therapy of Cancer
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5:00 pm - 5:15 pm | Award Presentations | ||
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Presidential Reception with Poster Viewing | ||
Sunday, November 2 | |||
7:00 am - 11:00 am | Registration Open | ||
8:00 am - 10:15 am | Plenary Session: Cancer Stem Cells and the Host Response
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8:00 am - 8:42 am | Regulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cells by the Microenvironment![]() |
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8:42 am - 9:24 am | Harnessing the Immune System to Target Stem Cell Genes in Myeloma Madhav Dhodapkar, MD - The Rockefeller University |
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9:24 am - 9:49 am | Characterization of the Immune Profile of Cancer Stem Cells Isolated from Human Glioblastoma![]() |
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9:49 am - 10:15 am | CD133 as a Potential Target of Anti-cancer Stem Cell Immunotherapy: Identification of a HLA-A*02 Restricted CD133 Epitope John S. Yu, MD - Cedars Sinai Medical Center |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Annual Meeting Adjourns | ||
Sunday Hot Topic Symposium | |||
10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Hot Topic Session - "Anti-CTLA-4: Issues in Development and Regulatory Approval" Program to include invited speakers, panel discussion/debate and audience questions. Click here for more information, including a detailed schedule and faculty listing. |
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