iSBTc 22nd Annual Meeting

November 2 - 4, 2007
Seaport World Trade Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Saturday Presentations
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Saturday, November 3
8:00 am - 8:45 am Saturday Keynote Address
Adoptive T Cell Therapy: Grand Challenges and Opportunities
Click to view presentationCarl H. June, MD - University of Pennsylvania
8:45 am - 11:30 am Plenary Session: Immuoregulation and Mediated Tolerance
Co-Chairs:
Vincenzo Bronte, MD - Istituto Oncologico Veneto
F. Stephen Hodi, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
8:45 am - 9:00 am Elevated Foxp3+CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells in Tumor-Bearing Mice Suppress T-Cell Priming, Effector-Cell Function and Anti-Tumor Immunity
Zuqiang Liu, PhD - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
9:00 am - 9:30 am Manipulating Immune Tolerance Unmasks the Latent Immune-Modulating Potential of Cancer Therapeutics
Leisha A. Emens, MD, PhD - Johns Hopkins University
9:30 am - 9:45 am Different Flavors of Regulatory T-Cell (Treg) Subsets in
Patients with Cancer and Their Role in Tumor Escape

Click to view presentationChristoph Bergmann, MD, PhD - University of Duisburg-Essen
9:45 am - 10:00 am Ex Vivo Depletion of CD81+ Tumor-Induced Regulatory T Cells Restores Priming of Tumor-Specific Effector T Cells Generated in Reconstituted, Lymphopenic Hosts
Christian Poehlein, MD - Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
10:00 am - 10:15 am Foxp3 is Expressed by Tumor Cells, Virally Transformed B Cells, and Germ Cells
Click to view presentationWeisan Chen, PhD - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
10:45 am - 11:00 am TGF-Beta Signaling Plays a Crucial Role for De Novo Induction of
Adaptive Regulatory T Cells but Is Not Required for the
Immunosuppressive Effect Mediated by Tumor-Induced Regulatory T Cells

Ulf Petrausch, MD - Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
11:00 am - 11:30 am Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Cancer
Vincenzo Bronte, MD - Istituto Oncologico Veneto
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session I: Tumor Recognition / Immune Evasion
Co-Chairs:
Paul F. Robbins, PhD - National Cancer Institute
Thomas Spies, PhD - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Adoptive Immunotherapy of Malignancies with Gene Modified, EBV-Specific, Cytotoxic T-Cell Lines
Click to view presentationMalcolm K. Brenner, MD, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Therapeutically Accessible Molecules That Regulate the Regulators
Click to view presentationDrew M. Pardoll, MD, PhD - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Tumor-Derived Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF)
Inhibits Immune Reactivity to Neuroblastoma In Vivo

Click to view presentationBryon D. Johnson, PhD - Medical College of Wisconsin
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm 5-aza-2’- Deoxycytidine Treatment Increases Expression of Tumor
Associated Antigens in Human Melanoma

Click to view presentationTimothy Haggerty, PhD - CytoCure LLC
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session II: New Agents
Co-Chairs:
Elizabeth A. Repasky, PhD - Rosewell Park Cancer Institute
Brian I. Rini, MD - Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm PTTG-1: An Immunological Target for Multiple Myeloma
Maurizio Chiriva, PhD - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm A Phase II Study of Tremelimumab (CP-675,206), an Anti-CTLA4
Monoclonal Antibody, in Patients with Refractory Metastatic Colorectoal Cancer

Click to view presentationKi Y. Chung, MD - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients with Melanoma Treated with Tremelimumab (CP-675,206)
Dimitri Pavlov, PhD - Pfizer, Inc.
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm EGFRVIII Vaccine (CDX-110) Alone and with Simultaneous
Temozolomide in Patients with Newly Diagnosed, Resected, EGFRVIII Positive GBM

Click to view presentationJohn Sampson, MD, PhD - Duke University Medical Center
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Novel Agents in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Challenges and
Opportunities in Capitalizing on Active Therapy

Click to view presentationBrian I. Rini, MD - Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center
3:20 pm - 4:45 pm iSBTc Presidential Session
Chair: Jon M. Wigginton, MD - Merck & Co., Inc.
3:20 pm - 3:25 pm Introduction
Jon M. Wigginton, MD - Merck & Co., Inc.
3:25 pm - 3:45 pm Apoptosis of Circulating Tumor-Antigen Specific TH1 CD4+ T Cells from Melanoma Patients
Amy K. Wesa, PhD - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm Priming and Selection of Allorestricted, Peptide-Specific T Cells for Adoptive Therapy of Tumors
Susanne Wilde - Institute of Molecular Immunology
4:05 pm - 4:25 pm Retrospective Analysis of Interleukin-2 Therapy in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Who had Received Prior Antiangiogenic Therapy
Click to view presentationTalya Schwarzberg, MD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
4:25 pm - 4:45 pm CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ T Regulatory Cells Kill Autologous CD8(+) and
CD4(+) T Cells Using GranzymeB and Fas/FasL-Mediated Pathways

Click to view presentationLaura Strauss, PhD - San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy

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