7th Annual Canadian Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium
7ieme Symposium Canadien Annuel d’Immunotherapie du Cancer
Quebec City
21-23 May/Mai 2014
Wednesday, May 21
17:00-20:00
Registration
Urban Space
Poster Session 1: Set-up (AB 1-20)
18:00-20:00
Buffet Dinner
Rm 308AB
20:00-21:00
Opening Remarks
Rm 309AB
Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Opening Keynote Lecture
Chair: Dr. Brad Nelson, BC Cancer Agency
Dr. Jerome Galon, INSERM, Cordeliers Research Center
“From the immune contexture to the Immunoscore in the era
of immunotherapies”
21:00-21:30
Speed Poster Session 1 (SP 1-8 oral presentations)
Rm 309AB
Opening Night Reception
Urban Space
Chair: Dr. Brad Nelson, BC Cancer Agency
21:30-23:00
Poster Session 1 Viewing (AB 1-20)
Meet with delegates
Browse Sponsor Exhibits
Bar service/ cash bar
Hors d'oeuvres served
Thursday, May 22
7:30-8:30
Breakfast
Registration
Urban Space/
Rm 308AB
8:30-10:00
Session 1: Immune Therapies
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Chair: Dr. Jonathan Bramson, McMaster University
Dr. James Gulley, National Cancer Institute
“Unleashing the power of the immune system through
combination therapy”
Dr. Mario Sznol, Yale University
“PD-1 – PDL-1 pathway antagonists in cancer treatment”
Dr. Marcus Butler, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
“Adoptive immunotherapy combinations”
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
Beverages and light snack
Urban Space
10:30-11:30
Speed Poster Session 2 (SP 9-15 oral presentations)
Rm 309AB
Session 2: Vaccines Meet Genomics
Rm 309AB
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Bramson, McMaster University
11:30-12:30
Chair: Dr. Brad Nelson, BC Cancer Agency
Dr. Ugur Sahin, University Medical Centre of the Johannes
Gutenberg University
“Modulating innate and adaptive immunity for personalized
cancer immunotherapy”
Dr. Paul Robbins, National Cancer Institute
“The use of exomic sequencing to identify mutated tumor
antigens”
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Buffet provided
Poster Season 1: Take down posters (AB 1-20)
13:30-15:30
Free time
Poster Session 2: Set-up (AB 21-40)
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Beverages and light snack
Urban Space
16:00-17:00
Session 3: Moving Immune Therapy Forward
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Chair: Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Dr. Lieping Chen, Yale University
“Tumor site immune modulation therapy”
Dr. Yves Fradet, Laval University
“Towards an integration of immunotherapeutic approaches
Urban Space/
Rm 308AB
for bladder cancer”
17:00-18:30
Poster Session 2 Viewing (AB 21-40)
Urban Space
Bar service/ cash bar
18:30-20:30
Dinner
Rm 308AB
Friday, May 23
7:30-8:30
Breakfast
Registration
8:30-10:00
Session 4: Back to Basics: Modulating T cell activity
Urban Space/
Rm 308AB
Rm 309AB
Chair: Dr. Rejean Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
(CRCHUM; Institut du cancer de Montreal)
Dr. Russell Jones, McGill University
“Regulation of T lymphocyte effector function by cellular
metabolism”
Dr. Tania Watts, University of Toronto
“Control of B lymphoma through regulation of TRAF protein
degradation”
Dr. Amnon Altman, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and
Immunology
“Control of Treg function by protein kinase C-eta : A novel
target for cancer immunotherapy”
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
Beverages and light snack
Urban Space
10:30-11:00
Speed Poster Session 3 (SP 16-22 oral presentations)
Rm 309AB
Closing Keynote Lecture
Rm 309AB
Chair: Dr. Rejean Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
(CRCHUM; Institut du cancer de Montreal)
11:00-12:00
Chair: Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Dr. Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan Kettering
“Regulatory T cells and cancer”
12:00-12:30
Closing remarks
Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Rm 309AB
Prizes
Poster Session 2: Take down posters (AB 21-40)
Meeting Adjournment
Check out at the Delta Quebec no later than 13:00
See you at CCIC 2015!