OOA COURSE
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
Dates
Target audience
Price
Location
Organizers:
More information:
: May 17, 2015 until May 27, 2015
: PhD students in Oncology VUmc, NKI and AMC
: Free of charge (coffee/tea included)
: NKI
: John Haanen, Jannie Borst, Ton Schumacher, Karin de Visser, Jacques
Neefjes (NKI)
: Anna Blokland a.blokland@nki.nl; 020-512 1735
Course outline
The OOA course Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy covers both the role of the tumormicroenvironment and the development of novel cancer immunotherapeutics, including cancer
vaccines, checkpoint inhibitors, and combination therapies. Both basic scientific research and clinical
implementation of cancer immunotherapies will be covered.
The course comprises an introduction on May 17 by the course organizers on cancer immunotherapy
and the tumor microenvironment, followed by three days of active participation of the PhD students
in paper discussions, on May 18, 19 and 20. The course participants will attend the National
Symposium on Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy on Thursday May 26, with many key opinion
leaders in this exciting and rapidly changing field of research.
The course ends with meet-the-expert sessions and the ‘Immunology meets Biotech’ discussions on
Friday May 27, given by successful scientists/entrepreneurs in the field of Immunology/
Immunotherapy.