Technical Program
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| Start Time | End Time | Thursday, October 01, 2020 |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Poster Session |
| 10:00 AM | 10:05 AM | Welcome Remarks, Yvonne Chen, UCLA |
| 10:05 AM | 10:45 AM | Keynote Speaker: Chiara Bonini, Università San Raffaele |
| Session 1: Clinical Applications Session Chair: Yvonne Chen, UCLA |
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| 10:45 AM | 11:10 AM | Invited Speaker: CAR NK Cells: A Drive to the Future of Cell Therapy Katy Rezvani, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| 11:10 AM | 11:35 AM | Invited Speaker: Preventing Antigen Escape with CD19/CD20 Bispecific Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cells Sarah Larson, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 11:35 AM | 11:50 AM | Acoustic Imaging and Detonation of Cellular Therapies Avinoam Bar-Zion, Caltech |
| 11:50 AM | 11:55 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| Session 2: CAR-T Cell Therapy Session Chair: Lior Nissim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| 11:55 AM | 12:20 PM | Invited Speaker: An MHC-Independent Booster Vaccine for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Leyuan Ma, Koch Institute at MIT |
| 12:20 PM | 12:45 PM | Invited Speaker: Computational Design of Cars for Enhanced Control and Safety of T-Cell Therapies Bruno Correia, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| 12:45 PM | 1:00 PM | Engineered T Cells Directed at Tumors with Defined Allelic Loss Breanna DiAndreth, a2biotherapeutics |
| 1:00 PM | 1:05 PM | Closing Remarks |
| Start Time | End Time | Friday, October 02, 2020 |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Poster Session |
| 10:00 AM | 10:05 AM | Opening Remarks |
| Session 3: Oncolytic Viruses and Tumor Microenvironment Engineering Session Chair: Eliana Ruggiero, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan |
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| 10:05 AM | 10:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Dressing Viruses in Tumor’s Clothing: Cloning-Free Platforms to Trigger Tumor-Specific Immune Response Vincenzo Cerullo, University of Helsinki |
| 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | Saul Priceman, City of Hope |
| 10:45 AM | 10:55 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| Session 4: Synthetic & Systems Biology Session Chair: Lior Nissim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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| 10:55 AM | 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: CRISPR Epigenetic Tools for Immunomodulation Samira Kiani, University of Pittsburgh |
| 11:20 AM | 11:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Enhanced Specificity and Selectivity of T Cell Therapeutics Sai T. Reddy, ETH Zurich |
| 11:45 AM | 12:00 PM | High-Efficiency System for Site-Specific Transgene Integration in Mammalian Cells Barbara Jusiak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Session 5: Checkpoint Inhibition Session Chair: Antonella Sistigu, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
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| 12:00 PM | 12:25 PM | Invited Speaker: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy – the Hidden Targets Michal Lotem, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center |
| 12:25 PM | 12:40 PM | LAG-3, but Not Tim-3, Disruption in TCR Gene Edited Human Memory Stem T Cells Enhance the Anti Tumor Activity Against Multiple Myeloma Beatrice Claudia Cianciotti, San Raffaele Scientific Institute |
| 12:40 PM | 1:10 PM | Summary of Day 2 Discussion & Closing Remarks |
| Start Time | End Time | Saturday, October 03, 2020 |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Welcome Remarks, Velia Siciliano, IIT |
| 9:05 AM | 9:45 AM | Keynote Speaker: Ron Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Session 6: Cancer Immunology Session Chair: Eliana Ruggiero, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan |
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| 9:45 AM | 10:10 AM | Invited Speaker: MR1T Cells Pave the Way for Novel Cancer Cell Therapies Gennaro De Libero, University of Basel |
| 10:10 AM | 10:35 AM | Invited Speaker: Delineation of the Immune Suppressive Network in Human Tumors – from Cells to Predictive Biomarkers Ilan Volovitz, Tel-Aviv Medical Center |
| 10:35 AM | 10:50 AM | The T Cell Exhaustion Signature Can Guide the Identification of Patient-Derived, Tumor-Reactive TCRs and Promote TCR Gene Editing for AML Francesco Manfredi, San Raffaele Scientific Institute |
| 10:50 AM | 10:55 AM | Stretch Break and Hallway Chats |
| Session 7: CAR-T Cell Therapy (Part 2) Session Chair: Antonella Sistigu, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
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| 10:55 AM | 11:20 AM | Invited Speaker: Solid Tumour: The New Challenge for the Immunotherapy Ignazio Caruana, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital |
| 11:20 AM | 11:45 AM | Thermal Control of Engineered T‐Cells Mohamad Abedi, Caltech |
| 11:45 AM | 11:50 AM | Closing Remarks |