Scientific program

Preliminary program Tuesday, November 24, 2026

9:00 am

Check-in

10:00 am

Welcome

10:15 am

Session I

Navigating the bridge from lab to clinic in stem cell-based therapies

Keynote

Thomas Hassing Ronøe Carlsen (Novo Nordisk, Denmark)

Optimising efficacy of tumor-specific T cells and manufacturing scalability

Keynote

Felix Lorenz (Captain T Cell, Germany)

Engineering persistence in off-the-shelf cell therapies

Keynote

Karl-Johan Malmberg (University of Oslo, Norway)

11:45 am

Break

12:00 pm

AstraZeneca industry symposium

Supported by AstraZeneca GmbH

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The evolving CAR-T landscape in multiple myeloma: Advances in design, targeting, and manufacturing
Prof. Dr. Johannes Waldschmidt, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Michael Hudecek, Würzburg

12:45 pm

Break

1:30 pm

Johnson&Johnson industry symposium

Supported by J&J Innovative Medicine Janssen-Cilag GmbH

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2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Session II

Reprogramming the tumor microenviroment toward immune activation by targeted gene-based cytokine delivery

Keynote

Luigi Naldini (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy)

Fantastic parvoviral gene therapy vectors and how to find them

Keynote

Dirk Grimm (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Flash Talk
PlasmidFactory

Inducing immunogenic lymphoid niches across cancers by tumor-to-dendritic cell reprogramming
Gaia Fontanari (Sweden)

4:00 pm

Poster session I

5:00 pm

Session III

t.b.a.

Keynote

Angela Vollstedt (Novartis, Austria)

The evolving field of cellular therapy in LBCL

Keynote

Anna Sureda (Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain)

Longitudinal clonal tracking of ciltacabtagene autoleucel in relapsed / refractory multiple myeloma
Michael Rade (Germany)

Development of novel CAR cell therapeutics in pediatric AML
Sabrina Schuster (Germany)

6:30 pm

Get-together

Preliminary program Wednesday, November 25, 2026

9:00 am

Session IV

Flash Talk

Understanding the barriers of CAR-T therapy and development towards point-of-care operational models

Dominik Griebling (Fresenius, Germany)

Supported by Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

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Allogeneic TCR-engineered NK cells as an off-the-shelf platform for intracellular antigen targeting in infection and cancer
Frederik Feigl (Germany)

9:45 am

Break

10:00 am

Session IV

Role of microbiome for response to chemotherapy and immunotherapy in gastrointestinal cancers

Keynote

Joseph Tintelnot (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)

t.b.a.

Keynote

Florence Renaud (Sorbonne University, France)

Loss of LEDGF/p75 disrupts DNA damage signaling and sensitizes patient-derived colorectal cancer cells to 5-fluorouracil
Victoria Liedtke (Germany)

Functional MMR empowers efficient cDC1 reprogramming in MSS colorectal cancer
Sandra Schwarz (Germany)

11:30 am

Break

11:45 am

BMS industry symposium

Supported by Bristol Myers Squibb GmbH & Co. KGaA

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12:30 pm

Break

1:15 pm

Poster session II

2:15 pm

Session V

In vivo CAR T cells have reached the clinical stage

Keynote

Christian Buchholz (Paul Ehrlich Institut, Germany)

Karolinska ATMP Center & future manufacturing for in vivo CAR T cell therapies

Keynote

Knut Steffensen (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

Keynote

Stephan Mielke (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

Clinical and manufacturing advances in allogeneic NK and CAR-NK cell therapy: From MRD-positive AML to autoimmune disease
Jan Spanholtz (Glycostem, The Netherlands)

A next-generation ionizable lipid LNP platform for efficient in vivo CAR T cell generation across species through passive and active immune cell targeting strategies
Martin Rabel (Cytiva, Canada)

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