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iSBTc 25th Annual Meeting

October 2 - 4, 2010                                                                       
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Washington, D.C.

Schedule at a Glance  (subject to change)                              

Friday, October 1
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Workshop on Monoclonal Antibodies in Cancer
Separate registration required. For more information, including the schedule, please click here.
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Primer on Tumor Immunology and Biological Therapy of Cancer
Separate registration required. For more information, including the schedule, please click here.
 
Saturday, October 2
7:50 am - 8:00 am President's Welcome
Bernard A. Fox, PhD - Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
8:00 am - 8:45 am Richard V. Smalley, MD Memorial Lectureship
James P. Allison, PhD - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
8:45 am - 11:30 am Plenary Session:  Dendritic Cells and Cancer
Co-Chairs:     Carl G. Figdor, PhD - Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences
                      Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Invited
Speakers:     Carl G. Figdor, PhD - Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences
                      Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
                     
David L. Urdal, PhD - Dendreon Corporation
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch with Poster Viewing and Exhibits
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session I:  Targeted Therapeutics and Immunotherapy
Co-Chairs      Mary L. Disis, MD - University of Washington
& Speakers:  Keiran S. Smalley, PhD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Center
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Session II: Innate / Adaptive Immune Interplay in Cancer
Co-Chairs      Vincenzo Cerundolo, MD, PhD - University of Oxford - Inst. of Molec. Medicine
& Speakers:  Laurence Zitvogel, MD, PhD - Institute Gustave Roussy
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Plenary Session:  Clinical Trial Endpoints
Co-Chairs:     F. Stephen Hodi, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
                     
Vernon K. Sondak, MD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Center
Invited
Speakers:      F. Stephen Hodi, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
                      Lawrence Fong, MD - University of California - San Francisco
                      Vernon K. Sondak, MD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Center
                      Annick Van den Abbeele, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
5:15 pm - 5:45 pm Special Program Announcement
5:45 pm - 6:15 pm iSBTc Membership Business Meeting
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm Poster Reception
   
Sunday, October 3
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Keynote Address
Cornelius J.M. Melief, MD, PhD - Leiden University Medical Center
8:45 am - 11:30 am Plenary Session:  Vaccine Combinations
Co-Chairs:     Pierre Coulie, MD, PhD - de Duve Institute and University of Louvain
                      Victor H. Engelhard, PhD - University of Virginia School of Medicine
Invited
Speakers:     Pierre Coulie, MD, PhD - de Duve Institute and University of Louvain
                      Victor H. Engelhard, PhD - University of Virginia School of Medicine
                      Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch with Poster Viewing and Exhibits
1:30 pm - 2:50 pm iSBTc Presidential Session
Chair:             Bernard A. Fox, PhD - Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Concurrent Session I:  Countering Negative Regulation
Co-Chairs      Pierre van der Bruggen, PhD - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
& Speakers:  Weiping Zou, MD, PhD - University of Michigan
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Concurrent Session II:  Immune Cell Trafficking to Tumor Microenvironment
Co-Chairs     Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD - University of Chicago
& Speakers:  Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD - Johns Hopkins University
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Update:  2009 iSBTc-FDA-NCI Workshop on Prognostic and Predictive Immunologic Biomarkers in Cancer
Lisa H. Butterfield, PhD - University of Pittsburgh
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Session: Topic to be announced
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm 25th Anniversary & Awards Reception
To be held at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
   
Monday, October 4
8:00 am - 10:15 am Plenary Session:  Adoptive T Cell Transfer: The Next Wave
Co-Chairs:      Patrick Hwu, MD - MD Anderson Center Center
                       Ton Schumacher, PhD - Netherlands Cancer Institute
Invited
Speakers:       Malcolm K. Brenner, MD, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine
                       Patrick Hwu, MD - MD Anderson Center Center
                       Ton Schumacher, PhD - Netherlands Cancer Institute
10:15 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Hot Topic Symposium: CTLA-4 Blockade as a Cancer Therapeutic: How Do We Build on a Successful Foundation?
For more information, please click here.