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Friday, November 11, 2005 |
8:15 am -
9:00 am |
Keynote Address: Overcoming Immunosuppression / Tolerance in Cancer Patients
James Allison, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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9:00 am -
11:45 am |
Plenary Session: Overcoming Immunosuppression / Tolerance in Cancer Patients
Chairs: |
Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD
Johns Hopkins University |
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9:00 am -
9:30 am |
How Host Cells Sink Anti-tumor Responses by Competing
for Activating Cytokines
Nicholas P. Restifo, MD
National Cancer Institute
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9:30 am -
9:45 am |
IL-2 Paradoxically Controls Tolerance and Immunity to a
Tumor/Self-antigen
Paul A. Antony, MD
National Cancer Institute - Surgery Branch
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9:45 am -
10:15 am |
Immunological Targeting of Tumor Stroma: Destruction of Cancer
Variants and the Immunosuppressive Microenvironment
Hans Schreiber, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
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10:15 am -
10:30 am |
Pharmacological Inhibition of the Immunomodulatory Enzyme
Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase (IDO) Cooperatively Leverages
Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
Alexander J. Muller, PhD
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research
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11:00 am -
11:30 am |
Recruitment of High Avidity Antigen Specific T Cells with T
Regulatory Cell Modulation
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD
Johns Hopkins University
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11:30 am -
11:45 am |
Intra-tumoral IL-12 + GM-CSF Microsphere Therapy Induces
Activation of Tumor-associated T-Effector/Memory Cells, Exodus of
CD4+ CD25+ T-Suppressors and Infiltration of CD8+ T-Effectors
Nejat K. Egilmez, PhD
University of Louisville
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1:00 pm -
3:00 pm |
Plenary Session: New Agents in Development
Chairs: |
Rachel W. Humphrey, MD
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jonathan Skipper, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research |
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1:00 pm - 1:15 pm |
Tumor Therapy with Proteasome Inhibitor Bortezomib (Velcade, PS-
341) Plus Death Receptor (DR5) Agonist Antibody MD5.1
Anil Shanker, PhD
National Cancer Institute
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1:15 pm - 1:45 pm |
The Role of Invariant NKT Cells in Enhancing Antigen Specific
T and B Cell Responses
Vincenzo Cerundolo, MD, PhD
University of Oxford
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1:45 pm - 2:00 pm |
Identification of a Well-tolerated Outpatient Regimen of
Interleukin-21 in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma and
Renal Cell Carcinoma
John A. Thompson, MD
University of Washington
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2:00 pm - 2:15 pm |
Proteasome Inhibition Upregulates the Cell Surface Expression of
Receptors for IFN-ã and TNF-á on Murine Neuroblastoma Cells and
Enhances the Proapoptotic and Overall Antitumor Activity of
Systemic Cytokine Therapy in Murine Neuroblastoma Tumors
Tahira Khan, PhD
National Cancer Institute
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2:15 pm - 2:45 pm |
Building Up Molecularly Defined Vaccines for Immunotherapy of Cancer
Pedro J. Romero, MD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm |
Induction of Therapeutic Breast Cancer Immunity with an IL-2
Immunotoxin
Keith Knutson, PhD
Mayo Clinic
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3:30 pm -
5:15 pm |
Concurrent Session I: Immune Monitoring
Chairs: |
James W. Mier, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Carmen Scheibenbogen, MD
Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin |
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Monitoring Mage Vaccination. Insights into Mechanisms of Tumor Regression
Pierre Coulie, MD
Universite Catholique de Louvain
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with GVAX® Vaccine for
Prostate Cancer Develop Immunoreactivity to Filamin: Role of
Filamin in Prostate Cancer Metastasis
Manjula Chinnappa, PhD
Cell Genesys
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4:15 pm - 4:45 pm |
Factors that Influence Responses to Adoptive Cancer Immunotherapy
Paul F. Robbins, PhD
National Cancer Institute - Surgery Branch
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4:45 pm - 5:00 pm |
Systematic Analysis of Anti-NY-ESO-1 T Cell Responses Reveals
Striking HLA-dependent Immunodominance
Weisan Chen, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
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5:00 pm - 5:15 pm |
GM-CSF Can Modulate the Migratory Phenotype of Vaccine-induced
T Cells by Enhancing CXCR3 Expression
Il-Kang Na, MD
Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin
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3:30 pm - 5:15 pm |
Concurrent Session II: Cytokines: Biology and Therapeutics
Chairs: |
William E. Carson, MD
Ohio State University
Geoffrey R. Weiss, MD
University of Virginia Medical Center |
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3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Microarray Analysis for Monitoring the Response to Interferon
Eleonora Arico’, MD
National Institute of Health
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3:45 pm - 4:00 pm |
Interleukin-29 Mediates Potent Anti-tumor Activity in the RenCA
Model of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Pallavur V. Sivakumar, PhD
Zymogenetics, Inc.
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Intratumoral Injection of IL-2 Plasmid Followed by
Electroporation for Cancer Therapy
Holly Horton, PhD
Vical, Inc.
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4:15 pm - 4:45 pm |
A CWG 3-arm Phase II Trial of GP100 (209-2M) Peptide + High Dose
Interleukin-2 in HLA-A2+ Advanced Melanoma Patients
Jeffrey A. Sosman, MD
Vanderbilt University
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4:45 pm - 5:15 pm |
Expansion of CD4 + CD25 + Regulatory T Cells During Lymphopenia
and Following IL2 Therapy
Crystal Mackall, MD
National Cancer Institute - Pediatric Oncology
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3:30 pm - 5:15 pm |
Concurrent Session III: Novel Approaches to Monoclonal Antibodies
Chairs: |
Alan L. Epstein, MD, PhD
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Louis M. Weiner, MD
Fox Chase Cancer Center |
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Stepping Stones Toward Cancer Immunotherapy
Alan L. Epstein, MD, PhD
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Phase I Trial of Siplizumab in CD2-positive Lymphoproliferative
Disease
John Janik, MD
National Cancer Institute - Metabolism Branch
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4:15 pm - 4:45 pm |
New Directions for Monoclonal Antibody Therapy
Louis M. Weiner, MD
Fox Chase Cancer Center
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4:45 pm - 5:00 pm |
Genetic Immunization and Antibody Generation in Research Animals
by Intravenous Delivery of Plasmid DNA
Mary Kay Bates, MS
Mirus Bio Corporation
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5:00 pm - 5:15 pm |
A Phase I Trial of Interleukin-12 with Trastuzumab and Paclitaxel
for HER2-overexpressing Malignancies
Julie Roda
Ohio State University
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Saturday, November 12, 2005 |
8:15 am - 9:00 am |
Keynote Address: Large-scale Genomic Methods to Dissect Cancer Phenotypes
Garrett Hampton, PhD
Genomics Institute
|
9:00 am - 11:45 am |
Plenary Session: Genomics / Proteomics of Tumors and the Host Response
Chairs: |
Francesco Marincola, MD
National Institutes of Health
Emanuel Petricoin, MD
George Mason University |
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Gene Profiling of BCC Treated with the Immunomodifier Imiquimod
(ALDARA ™) Reveals Key Signatures of Tumor Rejection
Monica Panelli, PhD
National Institutes of Health
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9:30 am - 9:45 am |
High Mobility Group B1 Matures Dendritic Cells and is a DAMP,
Elevated in the Serum of Hepatoma Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C
and Diminishing Following Resection and Orthotopic Liver
Transplantation or Radiofrequency Ablation
Michael T. Lotze, MD
University of Pittsburgh
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9:45 am - 10:00 am |
Inflammatory Protein Profile During Systemic High Dose
Interleukin-2 Administration
Leonardo Rossi, PhD
National Institutes of Health - Immunogenetics Section
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
A Novel Two-gene Expression Ratio that Predicts Clinical Outcome
in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Tamoxifen
Dennis C. Sgroi, MD
Harvard Medical School
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11:00 am - 11:15 am |
Signaling Networks in Cutaneous Melanoma Metastasis Identified by
cDNA Microarrays
Ulrich R. Hengge, MD
University of Dusseldorf
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11:15 am - 11:45 am |
Proteomic Profiling of Cancer Tissues: Moving Towards
Individualized Therapy
Julia Wulfkuhle, PhD
George Mason University
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1:00 pm - 2:20 pm |
Presidential Session
Chair: |
Ulrich Keilholz, MD
Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin |
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1:00 pm - 1:20 pm |
Characterization of Primary and Immune Escape Variant of HER-
2/NEU Overexpressing Mouse Mammary Carcinoma
Masoud H. Manjili, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University
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1:20 pm - 1:40 pm |
CD4 Cells can be More Efficient at Tumor Rejection than CD8 Cells
Ainhoa Pérez-Diez, PhD
National Institutes of Health
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1:40 pm - 2:00 pm |
WT1-Peptide Vaccination in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Shows High Immunogenicity Associated with Clinical Activity
Anne Letsch, MD
Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin
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2:00 pm - 2:20 pm |
Mechanism of Caspase Independent Activation Induced Cell Death of
Human Primary Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes: Implications for Cancer
Immunotherapy
Arvind Chhabra, PhD
University of Connecticut Health Center
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2:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Concurrent Session I: Cellular Therapies for Solid and Liquid Tumors
Chairs: |
Jerome Ritz, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
James C. Yang, MD
National Cancer Institute |
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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm |
Improving Immunotherapy Targeted at Subdominant Tumor Antigens
Helen E. Heslop, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm |
Treatment of Patients with Metastatic Melanoma by Infusion of
Anti-MART-1 TCR-Gene Engineered Lymphocytes
Richard Morgan, PhD
National Cancer Institute - Surgery Branch
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3:45 pm - 4:00 pm |
TCR in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Models, Monitoring and Therapy
Dolores J. Schendel, MD, PhD
Institute of Molecular Immunology
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant with Lymphodepletion Augments
T Cell-based Adoptive Immunotherapy
Claudia Wrzesinski, PhD, DMV
National Cancer Institute
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4:15 pm - 4:30 pm |
Ex-vivo Heat Shock Protein 70-Peptide-activated, Autologous
Natural Killer Cells Adoptive Therapy: From the Bench to the Clinic
Valeria Milani, MD, PhD
Ludwig Maximilian University
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2:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Concurrent Session II: Signal Transduction Inhibitors
Chairs: |
George Coukos, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Jeffery A. Sosman, MD
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm |
Prostaglandin E2-mediated Receptor Signaling and Control of
Breast Tumor Metastasis by Natural Killer Cells
Namita Kundu, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
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3:00 pm - 3:15 pm |
COX-2 Inhibition in Tumor Cells Blocks Arginase I Induction in
Myeloid Supperssor Cells
Augusto Ochoa, MD
Louisiana State University
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3:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
Isoform-specific Gene Targeting for Cancer Therapy with Small
Interfering RNA (siRNA)
Lin Zhang, MD
University of Pennsylvania
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
A Novel Mechanism of Herceptin Resistance and Counteracting
Strategies
Dihua Yu, MD, PhD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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4:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
The Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor-I as a Strategic Target
for Antibody Therapeutics Against Cancer
Michael G. Atkins, MD
Beth Israil Deaconess Medical Center
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4:45 pm -
5:45 pm |
Poster Discussion Session
Chairs: |
Jared A. Gollob, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Craig L. Slingluff, Jr., MD
University of Virginia |
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4:45 pm - 5:00pm |
NK Cell/Macrophage Role in Antitumor Immunity
Jerome Ritz, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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5:00 pm - 5:15 pm |
Novel Antigens for Tumor Immunotherapy
Jonathan Skipper, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
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5:15 pm - 5:30 pm |
New Tumor Vaccine Approaches
Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
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5:30 pm - 5:45 pm |
Cytokines and Tumor Immunology
Jon M. Wigginton, MD
National Cancer Institute
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Sunday, November 13, 2005 |
8:00 am - 8:45 am |
Richard V. Smalley, MD Memorial Lectureship
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute
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8:45 am - 11:00 am |
Plenary Session: Turning Immunization into Tumor Regression: Obstacles and Strategies
Chairs: |
Johannes Vieweg, MD
Duke University
Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD
University of Southern California, Norris Cancer Center |
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8:45 am - 9:15 am |
Molecular Manipulation of the Anti-tumor Immune Response
Drew M. Pardoll, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
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9:15 am - 9:30 am |
Evaluation of Myeloid Suppressive Cells in Peripheral Blood of
Melanoma Patients and Their Modualtion by a Heat-shock
Protein -96 and GM-CSF-based Vaccine
Licia Rivoltini, MD
Istituto Nazionale Tumori
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9:30 am - 9:45 am |
Potent Immunity Achieved by Targeted, Sequential Administration
of Recombinant DNA Vectors and Anchor-modified Epitope Peptides
Adrian Bot, MD, PhD
MannKind Corporation
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9:45 am - 10:00 am |
Polarized DC1-based Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines
Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
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10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Rescuing Anti-melanoma CD4+ Responses with Type-1 Polarized
Dendritic Cells: Essential Roles of Extended IL-12 Family Members
Amy Wesa, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
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10:15 am - 10:30 am |
In Situ Targeting of Antigen Presenting Cells within Secondary
Lymphoid Organs as a Means to Control Immune Responses
Kent A. Smith, MA
MannKind Corporation
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Making Vaccines Work: Translating Basic and Preclinical
Immunology into Human Immunotherapies
Nicholas P. Restifo, MD
National Cancer Institute
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