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Cancerimmunotherapy meets Strategies for Immune Therapy

 
  March 02, 2007  
     
 
CIMT meets SFIT 2007, Hofstuben Convention Center at Fortress Marienburg (Wuerzburg, Germany)
2007-04-12 to 2007-04-14


Day 1 (12th April 2007)

8:30-8:45 Welcoming Address

Keynote Lectures
08:45-09:30
Harald zur Hausen (Heidelberg)
Infections and cancer: novel modes of cancer prevention

09:30-10:15
Fritz Melchers (Basel)
Bone marrow transplantation revised


10:15-10:45
Coffee Break

Session 1:
Defenses against Infectious Pathogens
10:45-11:25
Tom Aebischer (Edinburgh)
Helicobacter pylori: An update on vaccine development and correlates of immunity

11:25-12:05
Antonio Coutinho (Oeiras)
To be announced

12:05-12:45
Gillis R. Otten (Emeryville)
To be announced


13:00-14:15
Lunch Break

Poster Session I
14:15-15:45
Guided Poster Session & Coffee

Session 2:
Biotech boosts Tumorimmunology

16:00-16:30
Özlem Türeci (Ganymed, Mainz)
Novel antibody therapeutics for solid cancers

16:30-17:00
Marlies Sproll (Morphosys, Martinsried)
Human monoclonal antibodies for therapy

17:00-17:30
Mark Krul (Isa Pharmaceuticals, Leiden)
The benefits of biomedical venturing


Day 2 (13th April 2007)

Session 3:
Tumor Vaccines

08:30-09:10
Hans-Georg Rammensee (Tübingen)
Tumor-associated peptides for individualized vaccination

09:10-09:50
Christian Ottensmeier (Southampton)
DNA fusion vaccines against prostate cancer: from the bench to the bedside

09:50-10:30
Pramod Srivastava (Farmington)
gp96-peptide complexes for immunotherapy of stage IV melanoma and adjuvant renal cell carcinoma

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-11:40
Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia)
Listeria based vaccines for breast and cervical cancer

Session 4:
Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy

11:40-12:20
Jeffrey V. Ravetch (New York)
Antibodies and their receptors: linking innate and adaptive immunity

12:20-13:00
George Weiner (Iowa City)
Complement and cellular cytotoxicity in antibody therapy of cancer

13:00-14:00
Lunch Break

Poster Session II
14:00-15:30
Guided Poster Session & Coffee

Session 4 (cont.): Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy

15:30-16:10
Dario Neri (Zurich)
Antibody-based vascular tumor targeting: from the bench to the clinic

16:10-16:50
Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles)
Antibody-cytokine fusion proteins: applications in cancer therapy

Session 5:
Development of Immunity

16:50-17:30
Harald von Boehmer (Boston)
Foxp3 positive Treg: generation, lifestyle and function


20:00 Dinner at ”Fürstensaal Residenz Würzburg”


Day 3 (14th April 2007)

Session 5 (cont.):
Development of Immunity

8:30-9:10
Bruno Kyewski (Heidelberg)
How promiscuity promotes tolerance

9:10-9:50
Sjoerd H. van der Burg (Leiden)
Tumor-specific T-regulatory cells in tumor-specific vaccination strategies

9:50-10:30
Thomas Boehm (Freiburg)
Quality strategies in self/non-self discrimination


10:30-11:00
Coffee Break


Session 6:
Host-pathogen Interactions

11:00-11:40
Jörg Hacker (Würzburg) Host - microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract:
Escherichia coli as an example

11:40-12:30
Vincenzo Bronte (Padua)
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer:
a novel target for therapeutic invention

12:30-13:10
Emmanuel Lemichez (Nice)
Uropathogenic E. coli CNF1 toxin molecular mechanism of action and application in vaccinology
13:10-13:50
Dirk Bumann (Hannover)
System-level analysis of Salmonella-host interactions

13:50-14:30
Lunch Break

Satellite Session:
CIMT Monitoring Panel

14:30 – 15:00:
Andreas Thiel (Berlin)
Direct access to CD4 T cells specific for defined antigens according to CD154 expression

15:00 – 15:30:
Helmut M. Diepolder (Munich)
HLA class II tetramers for enumeration and phenotyping of hepatitis C virus specific CD4+ T cells

15:30 – 16:00:
Cedrik M. Britten (Leiden)
Lessons learned from interlaboratory testing in phases I/2005 and II/2006”

16:00 – 16:15:
Announcement of new panel activities and inter-laboratory testing projects

16:15 – 16:45
Round table discussion

 
 
Organized by: Prof. Ulf R. Rapp (Wuerzburg, Germany) and CIMT e.V. (Mainz)
Invited Speakers: Harald zur Hausen (Heidelberg)
Fritz Melchers (Basel) Tom Aebischer (Edinburgh)
Antonio Coutinho (Oeiras)
Gillis R. Otten (Emeryville)
Özlem Türeci (Ganymed, Mainz)
Marlies Sproll (Morphosys, Martinsried)
Mark Krul (Isa Pharmaceuticals, Leiden)
Hans-Georg Rammensee (Tübingen)
Christian Ottensmeier (Southampton)
Pramod Srivastava (Farmington)
Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia)
Jeffrey V. Ravetch (New York)
George Weiner (Iowa City)
Dario Neri (Zurich)
Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles)
Harald von Boehmer (Boston)
Bruno Kyewski (Heidelberg)
Sjoerd H. van der Burg (Leiden)
Thomas Boehm (Freiburg)
Joerg Hacker (Würzburg)
Vincenzo Bronte (Padua)
Emmanuel Lemichez (Nice)
Dirk Bumann (Hannover)
Andreas Thiel (Berlin)
Helmut M. Diepolder (Munich)
Cedrik M. Britten (Leiden)
 
Deadline for Abstracts: 2007-03-16
 
Registration: For more details: http://www.c-imt.org/index.php?option=com_symporeg&Itemid=62 Registration Fees Participant: Regular registration for CIMT 2007 210 Euro (12.-14.4.2007) Registration for April 12-13 only 170 Euro Registration for April 13-14 only 170 Euro Registration for April 12 only 120 Euro Registration for April 13 only 120 Euro Registration for April 14 only 80 Euro or Student: Reduced fee for CIMT 2007 150 Euro Reduced fee for April 12-13 only 120 Euro Reduced fee for April 13-14 only 120 Euro Reduced fee for April 12 only 90 Euro Reduced fee for April 13 only 90 Euro Reduced fee for April 14 only 50 Euro Full registration includes access to all lectures for the Symposium, lunch and coffee-brakes each day and online access to the recorded sessions.
E-mail: m.uenker@info-mainz.de
 
   
 
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