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Program: Wednesday, February 18

Thursday, Feb. 19 Friday, Feb 20 Saturday, Feb. 21

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Wednesday, February 18

REGISTRATION

12-9 p.m.

Educational Sessions 1-2

3-4:20 p.m.

Educational Session 1: All You Need to Know About Studying the Tumor Microenvironment

Session Chair: Brian Brown, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

  • 3:05 p.m. | Brian Brown
  • 3:25 p.m. | Spatial interplay between tumor cells and their microenvironment determines Tertiary Lymphoid Structures formation and their impact on immunotherapy responses
    Catherine Sautès-Fridman, Cordeliers Research Centre, Paris, France
  • 3:45 p.m. | Noninvasive profiling of the TME for immunotherapy response assessment
    Aaron M. Newman, Stanford University, Stanford, California
  • 4:05 p.m. | Discussion / Q&A

Educational Session 2: Microbiome

Session Chair: Marcel R.M. van den Brink, City of Hope, Duarte, California

  • 3:05 p.m. | Marcel R.M. van den Brink
  • 3:25 p.m. | Giorgio Trinchieri, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
  • 3:45 p.m. | Michael C. Wu, Fred Hutchison Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington

Break

4:20-4:30 p.m.

Educational Sessions 3-4

4:30-5:50 p.m.

Educational Session 3: All You Need to Know About Metabolism in IO

  • 4:35 p.m. | You’re what you eat: Fueling CD8+T cells smart
    Shixin Ma, Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, Shenzhen, China
  • 4:55 p.m. | Metabolic control of inflammation and aging
    Vishwa Deep Dixit, Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Additional speaker to be announced

Educational Session 4: How to Artificially Design Genes and Proteins

  • 5:05 p.m. | Hani Goodarzi, University of California, San Francisco, California

Additional speakers to be announced

Break

5:50-6 p.m.

Welcome and Keynote Session 1

6-7:30 p.m.

  • 6 p.m. | Welcome and Opening Keynote Lectures
    Nina Bhardwaj, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
    Antoni Ribas, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
  • 6:10 p.m. | Introduction of Keynote Speaker
    Nina Bhardwaj
  • 6:15 p.m. | Keynote
    Elizabeth M. Jaffee, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 6:50 p.m. | Introduction of Keynote Speaker
    Antoni Ribas
  • 6:55 p.m. | Keynote
    K. Christopher Garcia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Poster Session A / Exhibit Show / Reception

8-10:30 p.m.