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Program

Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in San Diego and will not live-stream content for virtual participation.

FRIDAY, June 25

SATURDAY, June 26

SUNDAY, June 27

Friday, June 25

REGISTRATION

3-9 p.m.

WELCOME AND OPENING Keynote

5-6:30 p.m.

  • 5:45 p.m. | How tissues shape anti-tumor T-cell responses
    Laura Mackay, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Panel Discussion: New Frontiers in Cancer Inflammation Research

6:30–7:30 p.m.

Session Chair: Raymond DuBois, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, South Carolina

  • Panelists
    Ryan Schoenfeld, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Center, New York, New York

Opening Reception/ Poster A

7:30-9:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 26

Continental Breakfast

7-8:30 a.m.

“Meet-the-Expert” Networking Roundtables

7:15-8:15 a.m.

Plenary Session 1: Cellular and Molecular Regulators of Inflammation in the Tumor Microenvironment

8:30-10:15 a.m.

Session Chair: Raymond N. DuBois, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, South Carolina

  • 8:35 a.m. | Raymond N. DuBois
  • 8:55 a.m. | Miriam Merad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
  • 9:15 a.m. | CD4T cells coordinate the immune response to poorly immunogenic tumors
    Stephanie Dougan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 9:35 a.m. | Miriam Merad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Additional speakers to be announced
Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Plenary Session 2: Adaptive Immunity: The Yin and Yang in Cancer Inflammation and Immunotherapy

10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Session Chair: Dafna Bar-Sagi, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York

  • 10:35 | Dafna Bar-Sagi
  • 11:15 | Lipid-stressed neutrophils support pancreatic cancer liver metastasis
    Michael Karin, UC San Diego, San Diego, California   

Additional speakers to be announced
Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Plenary Session 3: The Microbiome–Inflammation Axis in Cancer

2-3:45 p.m.

  • 2:05 | Florencia McAllister, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
  • 2:45 | Fungal mycobiome as a new strategy to overcome cancer-related dysbiosis
    Bertrand Routy, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Additional speakers to be announced
Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

break

3:45-4 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Fueling Inflammation: Immunometabolism in Cancer

4-6 p.m.

Session Chair: Brendan Jenkins, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  • 4:05 | Brendan Jenkins 
  • 4:25 | Dietary lipids fuel inflammatory tumors in obesity
    Lydia Lynch, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Poster Session B / Reception

6:15-8:15 p.m.

Sunday, June 27

Continental Breakfast

7-8:30 a.m.

Plenary Session 5: The Aging–Inflammation–Cancer Continuum

8:30-10:15 a.m.

  • 8:35 | Ashani Weeraratna, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 8:55 | Targeting the continuum of senescent states to overcome chronic inflammation in cancer metastasis
    Marcus Ruscetti, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
  • 9:15 | Transcriptional regulation in therapy-induced senescent-like and persistent cancer cell states
    Viviana Risca, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York

Break

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Plenary Session 6: Computational and Spatial Approaches to Cancer Inflammation

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Break

12:15-12:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 7: New Targeting Approaches in Inflammation and Cancer

12:30-3:15 p.m.

  • 12:35 p.m. | Spatial mechanical regulation of inflammation in cancer initiation and progression
    Valerie Marie Weaver, University of California San Franciso, San Franciso, California
  • 12:55 p.m. | Therapeutically targeting inflammation to treat and prevent cancer
    Thomas Marron, Mount Sinai, New York, New York
  • 1:15 p.m. | Inflammation and cell plasticity during therapy of colorectal cancer
    Florian Greten, Frankfurt Cancer Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1:49 p.m. | Discussion/Q&A

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Closing Remarks & Departure

2:15 p.m.