The next CCIC Symposium will be held at the Sheraton Niagara falls, just before the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Immunology.

Priliminary program:

April 22

8:00 pm Keynote lecture:  Robert Schreiber (Washington University)

TBA

Followed by poster session, reception.

April 23, Scientific Sessions 9:00 – 5:30

Madhav Dhodapkar (Yale University)

Stem cells, inflammation and tumor immunity: From bedside to the bench and back

A. Karolina Palucka (Baylor Institute for Immunology Research)

Taming Cancer with Dendritic Cells

Drew Pardoll (Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Centre) 

Role of STAT3 in anti-tumor immunity

Ciriaco Piccirillo (McGill University)

Identification of key mutations in FOxP3 that control regulatory T cell function

Denis Claude Roy (University of Montreal)

TBA

Padmanee Sharma (MD Anderson)

TBA

Suzanne Topalian (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Immunological Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy

Tania Watts (University of Toronto)

Mechanisms of action of anti-4-1BB during adoptive T cell therapy

Juan Carlos Zuniga Pflucker (Sunnybrook Hospital)

Generating tumor specific T cells

Roundtable discussion

Link to the CSI meeting