Confirmed Program Faculty

(as of April 22, 2008)

James Allison, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
PR Faculty

Ashok M. Batra, MD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CBER
GRS Faculty

John C. Byrd, MD
The Ohio State University
AM Faculty

Patrick Celis, PhD
European Medicines Agency
GRS Faculty

Helen Chen, MD
National Cancer Institute, CTEP
AM Faculty

David A. Cheresh, PhD
University of California, San Diego
PR Faculty

Gina Coleman, MD
Health Canada
GRS Faculty

Lisa M. Coussens, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
WS Organizer, WS Faculty

Thomas A. Davis, MD
Celldex Therapeutics, Inc.
AM Organizer, AM Faculty

John Desjarlais, PhD
Xencor, Inc.
AM Faculty

Dr. Bindu Dey, PhD
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
GRS Faculty

Madhav Dhodapkar, MD
The Rockefeller University
AM Faculty

Glenn Dranoff, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
AM Faculty

Steve Dubinett, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
WS Organizer, WS Faculty

Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
AM Organizer, AM Faculty

Phillip D. Greenberg, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & University of Washington
PR Faculty

Helen E. Heslop, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
AM Faculty

Thomas Hinz, PhD
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany
GRS Faculty

Patrick Hwu, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
PR Organizer

Michael Jensen, MD
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute
AM Faculty

Luo Jianhui, MD
Center for Drug Evaluation, SFDA, P.R. China
GRS Faculty

Ulrich Kalinke, PhD
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany
GRS Organizer, GRS Faculty

Michael D. Kalos, PhD
City of Hope Cancer Center
PR Faculty

Michael Karin, PhD
University of California, San Diego
WS Organizer, WS Faculty, WS Keynote

W. Martin Kast, PhD
University of Southern California
AM Faculty

Koji Kawakami, MD, PhD
Japan Science and Technology Agency
GRS Faculty

Ilona Kryczek, PhD
University of Michigan
AM Faculty

Greg Lazar, PhD
Xencor, Inc.
AM Faculty

Ke Liu, MD, PhD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CBER
GRS Faculty

Michael T. Lotze, MD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
WS Organizer, WS Faculty

Kim Margolin, MD
City of Hope Cancer Center
PR Organizer

Andreas Marti, PD, PhD
Swissmedic, Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products
GRS Faculty

William J. Murphy, PhD
University of Nevada, School of Medicine
AM Organizer, AM Faculty, PR Faculty

Lee M. Nadler, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
PR Faculty

Martin Oft
Schering-Plough Biopharma (formerly DNAX)
AM Faculty

A. Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
PR Faculty

Giorgio Parmiani, MD
San Raffaele Foundation
AM Faculty, AM Keynote

Raj K. Puri, MD, PhD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CBER
GRS Organizer, GRS Faculty

David Raulet, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
AM Faculty

Nicholas P. Restifo, MD
National Cancer Institute
AM Faculty

Jeffrey Schlom, PhD
National Cancer Institute, NIH
AM Faculty

Robert D. Schreiber, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
AM Faculty, AM Keynote

Mario Sznol, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
PR Faculty

Hideaki Tahara, MD, PhD
University of Tokyo
AM Organizer, AM Faculty

Katsutoshi Tanaka
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, Japan
GRS Organizer, GRS Faculty

Giorgio Trinchieri, MD
National Cancer Institute
AM Faculty

Walter J. Urba, MD, PhD
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
PR Faculty

Pierre van der Bruggen, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
AM Faculty

George Weiner, MD
University of Iowa
WS Organizer, WS Faculty

Max Wicha, MD
University of Michigan
AM Faculty

Jon M. Wigginton, MD
Merck & Co., Inc.
AM Faculty

Keith Wonnacott, PhD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
GRS Faculty

Yongjie Zhou, MD, PhD
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CBER
GRS Faculty

Weiping Zou, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
AM Faculty

Program Role Key:
AM = Annual Meeting  •  PR = Primer  •  GRS = Global Regulatory Summit  •  WS = Workshop