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 posters (AB 1-20)
18:00-20:00 Buffet Dinner
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20:00-21:00 Opening Remarks
Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
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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)
Chair: Dr. Brad Nelson, BC Cancer Agency
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21:30-23:00 Opening Night Reception
Poster Session 1 Viewing (AB 1-20)
Meet with delegates
Browse Sponsor Exhibits
Urban Space
Bar service/ cash bar
Hors d'oeuvres served
Thursday, May 22
7:30-8:30
Breakfast
Registration
Urban Space/
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8:30-10:00
Session 1: Immune Therapies
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Bramson, McMaster University
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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
10:30-11:00 Speed Poster Session 2 (SP 9-15 oral presentations)
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Bramson, McMaster University
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11:00-12:00 Session 2: Vaccines Meet Genomics
Chair: Dr. Brad Nelson, BC Cancer Agency
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Dr. Ugur Sahin, University Medical Center of the
Johannes Gutenberg University
“Modulating innate and adaptive immunity for
personalized cancer immunotherapy”
Dr. Paul Robbins, NIH/ NCI Surgery Branch
“The use of exomic sequencing to identify mutated tumor
antigens”
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Buffet provided
Poster Session 1: Take down posters (AB 1-20)
13:30-15:30 Free time
Poster Session 2: Set-up posters (AB 21-39)
Urban Space/
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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Beverages and light snack
Urban Space
16:00-17:00 Session 3: Moving Immune Therapy Forward
Chair: Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer
Centre
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Dr. Lieping Chen, Yale University
“Tumor site immune modulation therapy”
Dr. Yves Fradet, CHU de Québec – Hôtel-Dieu de
Québec/Université Laval
“Towards an integration of immunotherapeutic
approaches for bladder cancer”
17:00-18:30 Poster Session 2 Viewing (AB 21-39)
Urban Space
Bar service/ cash bar
18:30-20:30 Dinner
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Friday, May 23
7:30-8:30
Breakfast
Registration
Urban Space/
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8:30-10:00
Session 4: Back to Basics: Modulating T cell activity
Chair: Dr. Rejean Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
(CRCHUM; Institut du cancer de Montreal)
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Dr. Russell Jones, McGill University
“Fuel feeds function: 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
Chair: Dr. Rejean Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
(CRCHUM; Institut du cancer de Montreal)
11:00-12:00 Closing Keynote Lecture
Chair: Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer
Centre
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Dr. Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center/ HHMI
“Regulatory T cells and cancer”
12:00-12:30 Closing remarks
Dr. Pamela Ohashi, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Prizes
Poster Session 2: Take down posters (AB 21-39)
Meeting Adjournment
Check out at the Delta Quebec no later than 13:00
See you at CCIC 2015!
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