New Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy

 LIVE Symposium

Monday, October 23, 2023
1:00 - 4:00 PM Eastern Time

The immune system plays a large role in a body’s fight against cancer, but tumors can avoid the immune response. Scientists work to restore anti-cancer immune activity by augmenting existing immune mechanisms and circumventing tumor immune-evasion strategies.

In this virtual symposium brought to you by The Scientist, an expert panel will examine immunotherapies and other immune-supporting strategies that help prevent, control, and eliminate cancer.

Symposium program

1:00 PM – Introduction

1:10 PM – Mapping Out Immune Cells in Cancer Using Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics

Joakim Lundeberg, PhD

1:45 PM – Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Identifying Immunotherapeutic Targets in Cancer: Not Just Scratching the Surface

Arun Wiita, PhD

2:20 PM – Leveraging the Tumor-Stroma-Immune Interface to Improve B-T Cell Crosstalk in Tertiary Lymphoid Structures

Tallia Bruno, PhD 

 2:55 PM – Tumor-derived Immune Dysfunction Spreading to the Lymph Node

Ed Roberts, PhD

3:20 PM - Open panel Q&A session
Nathan Ni from The Scientist's Creative Services Team will be joined by the entire panel in an open question and answer session where presenters will address questions posed by the audience.

Joakim Lundeberg, PhD Science for Life Laboratory KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Arun Wiita, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences University of California, San Francisco

Tullia C. Bruno, PhD Assistant Professor Tumor Microenvironment Center Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Department of Immunology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Ed Roberts, PhD Group Leader School of Cancer Sciences CRUK Scotland Institute and University of Glasgow