Announcement, Our Impact 10.03.23 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn PICI Network Members Featured at #AACRtii23 Six members of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) Network will present at the AACR Special Conference on Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Oct. 1-4 in Toronto. The conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas between basic cancer immunologists, non-immunologists and clinical oncologists to develop translatable approaches that harness the immune system to treat cancer. Crystal Mackall, MD, Center Director of PICI at Stanford Medicine, will deliver the keynote address. She will be introduced by fellow PICI Network member Philip Greenberg, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, a co-chair of the conference who also will present. The other featured PICI Network members (in order of their presentations) are: Robert Schreiber, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Catherine Wu, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Carl June, MD, Center Director of PICI at Penn Medicine Below are details on the lecture and presentations. All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Programming is subject to change, so visit the conference program for the most current information. You also can follow the meeting on X (formerly known as Twitter) using the hashtag #AACRtii23. Sunday, Oct. 1 Keynote Lecture: Chasing T Cell Exhaustion Lecturer: Crystal Mackall (X: @MackallLab) Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 2 Plenary Session 3: Inhibitory Cells Time: 2:30-4:35 p.m. Presenter: Robert Schreiber, PhD Presentation: Title to be announced Tuesday, Oct. 3 Plenary Session 6: TCR-Targeted Immunotherapies Session Chair: Catherine Wu, MD Time: 2:30-4:35 p.m. Presenter: Catherine Wu, MD Presentation: Title to be announced Presenter: Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD (X: @NinaBhardwaj | @BhardwajLab) Presentation: Cancer Neoantigens: From Discovery to the Clinic Wednesday, Oct. 4 Plenary Session 8: Synthetic Biology and Immune Cell Engineering Session Chair: Philip Greenberg, MD Time: 10:05-11:55 a.m. Presenter: Carl June, MD (X: @CarlHJune) Presentation: Title to be announced Presenter: Philip Greenberg, MD Presentation: Title to be announced Related Announcement, Press Release Parker Institute Awards $525,000 to Advance Diverse Talent in Cancer Research Announcement PICI Network Investigators Propel Immunotherapy Progress at SITC 2024 Announcement, Press Release PICI’s 2024 Fall Scientific Retreat Ignites Collaboration to Accelerate Cancer Immunotherapy
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