iSBTc 23rd Annual Meeting

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.
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?
 Giorgio Parmiani, MD - San Raffaele Foundation
8:45 am - 11:30 am Plenary Session: Enhancing Cancer Vaccines
Co-Chairs: Glenn Dranoff, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
W. Martin Kast, PhD - University of Southern California
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
 W. Martin Kast, PhD - University of Southern California
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
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
 Adrian Bot, MD, PhD - MannKind Corporation
9:45 am - 10:00 am Cellular Immunotherapy and Immune Regulation in Ovarian Cancer
 Martin J. Cannon, PhD - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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
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
11:00 am - 11:30 am Balancing Tumor Immunity and Inflammation
Glenn Dranoff, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch with Poster Viewing
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Plenary Session: Adoptive Transfer
Co-Chairs: Helen E. Heslop, MD - Baylor College of Medicine
William J. Murphy, PhD - University of Nevada, School of Medicine
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Three Ways to Enhance the Destructive Power of Tumor-Specific T Cells
 Nicholas P. Restifo, MD - National Cancer Institute
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Engineering GVL by T-Cell Genetic Modification
 Michael C.V. Jensen, MD - City of Hope / Beckman Research Institute
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
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
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
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
 Yufeng Li - MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Concurrent Session I: TH-17, Cytokines and T Cell Subsets
Co-Chairs: Martin Oft, MD - Schering-Plough Biopharma (formerly DNAX)
Hideaki Tahara, MD, PhD - University of Tokyo
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm IL-23 Promotes Tumor Associated Inflammation and Subverts Immune Surveillance
 Martin Oft, MD - Schering-Plough Biopharma (formerly DNAX)
3:40 pm - 4:05 pm Potent Anti-Tumor Immunity and Both TH-1 and TH-17 Promotion Associated with IL-23 Administration
 Hideaki Tahara, MD, PhD - University of Tokyo
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm TH-17 Cells in Ovarian Cancer Patients
Ilona Kryczek, PhD - University of Michigan
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.
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Concurrent Session II: Endpoints, Response Criteria for Clinical Trial Design
Co-Chairs: Thomas A. Davis, MD - AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.
Jeffrey Schlom, PhD - National Cancer Institute, NIH
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
3:40 pm - 3:55 pm Overall Survival and New Patterns of Response in Patients with Advanced Melanoma Treated with Ipilimumab
 Steven J. O'Day, MD - The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm Endpoints for Biologic Therapeutics in Oncology
 Peter Bross, MD - FDA - Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies
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
 Robert D. Schreiber, PhD - Washington University in St. Louis
8:45 am - 11:30 am Plenary Session: Tumor Escape / Tumor Microenvironment
Co-Chairs: Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD - University of Chicago
Weiping Zou, MD, PhD - University of Michigan
8:45 am - 9:15 am Innate Immune Signals that Mediate Host Awareness of Tumor and Promote Adaptive Immune Responses Against Tumor Antigens
 Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD - University of Chicago
9:15 am - 9:30 am Persistent High Grade Cervical Dysplasia Excludes CD8+ T Cells
Cornelia Trimble, MD - Johns Hopkins University
9:30 am - 10:00 am Inhibitory B7 Family Members (B7-H1 and B7-H4) in the Tumor Microenvironment
 Weiping Zou, MD, PhD - University of Michigan
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
10:45 am - 11:15 am Correcting the Anergy of Human Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes?
Pierre van der Bruggen, PhD - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
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
 Yuanyuan Zha, PhD - Human Immunologic Monitoring Facility, University of Chicago
11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch with Poster Viewing
1:00 pm - 2:20 pm iSBTc Presidential Abstract Session
Chair: Jon M. Wigginton, MD - Merck & Co., Inc.
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
1:20 pm - 1:40 pm CCL28 a New Link Between Hypoxia Angiogenesis and Tumor Immune Evasion
 Andrea Facciabene, PhD - University of Pennsylvania
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
 Jianda Yuan, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Radiofrequency Ablation with KS-IL2 Immunocytokine (EMD 273066) Results in an Enhanced Antitumor Effect Against Murine Colon Adenocarcinoma
 Erik Johnson, MD - University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Session I: Tumor Targeting Monoclonal Antibodies
Co-Chairs: Helen Chen, MD - National Cancer Institute, CTEP
Greg Lazar, PhD - Xencor, Inc.
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Antibody and Small Moldular Immune Pharmaceutical Therapies for Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Major Step Forward
 John C. Byrd, MD - The Ohio State University
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
 Patrick Hwu, MD - MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Optimizing Engagement of the Immune System by Anti-Tumor Antibodies
 John R. Desjarlais, PhD - Xencor, Inc.
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
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Session II: Innate Immunity to Tumors
Co-Chairs David Raulet, PhD - University of California, Berkeley
Giorgio Trinchieri, MD - National Cancer Institute
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Innate Resistance, Inflammation, and Cancer
Giorgio Trinchieri, MD - National Cancer Institute
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Role of NKG2D in Tumor Surveillance
 David Raulet, PhD - University of California, Berkeley
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Innate Immunity Can Contribute to the Shaping of Tumor Immunogenicity in the Absence of Adaptive Immunity
 Jack D. Bui, MD, PhD - University of California, San Diego
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
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Update: 2007 Workshop on Future Opportunities for Combination Biological
Therapy of Cancer
Speaker:  Jon M. Wigginton, MD - Merck & Co., Inc.
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
Co-Chairs: Madhav Dhodapkar, MD - The Rockefeller University
Max Wicha, MD - University of Michigan
8:00 am - 8:42 am Regulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cells by the Microenvironment
 Max Wicha, MD - University of Michigan
8:42 am - 9:24 am Harnessing the Immune System to Target Stem Cell Genes in Myeloma
Madhav Dhodapkar, MD - The Rockefeller University
9:24 am - 9:49 am Characterization of the Immune Profile of Cancer Stem Cells Isolated from Human Glioblastoma
 Cristina Maccalli, PhD - San Raffaele Foundation Scientific Institute
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
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.

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