November 22–23, 2022
Virtual Conference

Scientific program 2022

program – Tuesday, November 22, 2022

9:00–10:30 am

Live Session I

Chairs: Köhl, Ulrike & Platzbecker, Uwe

Of CARs and TRUCKs: Redirected T cells for the adoptive immunotherapy
Keynote: Abken, Hinrich (RCI – University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)

NK cells as "CAR" drivers – current status and future developments
Keynote: Tonn, Torsten (Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany)

10:30–10:45 am

Break

10:45-11:15 am

Flash Talk I

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11:15–11:30 am

Break

11:30 am – 12:15 pm

Symposium I

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12:15–1:00 pm

Break

1:00-1:45 pm

Symposium II

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1:45-2:15 pm

Break

2:15-3:45 pm

Live Session II

Chairs: Blache, Ulrich & Vucinic, Vladan

TCR-engineered cells for cancer immunotherapy
Keynote: Olweus, Johanna (Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway)

Treatment with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes – Clinical experience and future perspectives
Keynote: Klobuch, Sebastian (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

3:45-4:00 pm

Break

4:00-5:00 pm

Poster Session – CAR-T cell therapy | CAR-NK cell therapy | Non-viral gene transfer | Viral vectors in immunotherapy

Moderation: Tretbar, Sandy

CRISPR/Cas9 knock-out of inhibitory receptor NKG2A improves efficacy of CD33-CAR-NK cells against AML
Bexte, Tobias

Dual targeting of CAR-NK cells to PD-L1 and HER2 facilitates specific elimination of cancer cells of solid tumor origin and overcomes immune escape by antigen loss
Eitler, Jiri

Lipid Nanoparticles as Next-Generation mRNA Delivery System for Transient CAR T Cell Therapy
Kitte, Reni

Accelerating the development and improving access to CAR- and TCR-engineered T cell therapy in Europe
Luu, Maik

Lentiviral Vector large scale manufacturing using suspension platform
Neri, Margherita

Continuous production of hiPSC-derived Natural Killer cells and Dendritic cells using a concurrent differentiation platform
Saleh, Fawaz

Optimization of lentiviral vector mediated transduction of T cells for clinical use
Vallanti, Giuliana

Short-chain fatty acids – Potential key regulators of intestinal inflammation in CAR T cell therapy
Wegner, Valentin

 

 

program – Wednesday, November 23, 2022

9:00–10:30 am

Live Session III

Chair: Lordick, Florian

CAR-T cells and solid tumors / Increasing the therapeutic index of CAR-T cells in solid tumors
Keynote: Guedan, Sonia  (August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain)

 The clinical implementation of immunotherapies in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers
Keynote: Smyth, Elizabeth  (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, Great Britain)

10:30–10:45 am

Break

10:45-11:15 am

Flash Talk II

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11:15–11:30 am

Break

11:30 am – 12:15 pm

Live Session IV

Chair: Köhl, Ulrike

NK cells and the increasingly interesting concept of memory-like NK cells
Keynote: Lowdell, Mark (University College London, London, Great Britain)

12:15–1:00 pm

Break

1:00-1:45 pm

Symposium III

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1:45-2:15 pm

Break

2:15-3:45 pm

Live Session V

Chairs: Hacker, Ulrich & Köhl, Ulrike

Vaccine-based approaches / mRNA therapeutics in cancer immunotherapy
Keynote: Rengstl, Benjamin (BioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany)

RO(A)Ring CAR T cells to treat hematologic and solid tumors
Keynote: Hudecek, Michael  (Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany)

3:45-4:00 pm

Break

4:00-5:00 pm

Poster Session – Open topic

Moderation: Schmiedel, Dominik

Fully standardized human immune cells as a screening platform for novel cancer immuno-therapeutics and beyond
Abdin, Shifaa

Insight into the mechanism of cellularization in cancer multikaryocytes
Dsouza, Flevy

Genetic alterations and immune cell infiltration with potential impact on PD-(L)1 targeted treatment in various cancer entities – Biobank research project of the INFINITY registry
Kasenda, Benjamin

A transcriptomic landscape of immune cells TME in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma by single-cell sequencing
Kulshreshtha, Ritika

Efficient Tumor Therapy with an Antibody Inhibiting Shedding of MIC Molecules
Liptáková, Veronika

In-vitro validation of Glypican-1 as a novel potential target for antibody- or CAR-based therapies of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)
Mueller, Claudia

Revealing the Mechanism of Action of the Anti-Human CD4 Antibody MAX.16H5 for Induction of Immune Tolerance
Roth, Kristina

Cell-specific contributions to differential patterns of sterile inflammation in LR-MDS
Schneider, Marie

Investigation of effects of acetylsalicylic acid on pancreatic stellate cells-mediated pancreatic cancer aggressiveness
Sığırlı, Sıla

 

 

 

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