| Day 1 (12th April 2007) |
08:30-08:45
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Welcoming Address |
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| Keynote Lectures
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| 08:45-09:30 |
Harald zur Hausen (Heidelberg)
"Infections and cancer: novel modes of cancer prevention"
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| 09:30-10:15 |
Fritz Melchers (Berlin)
"Bone marrow transplantation revised"
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| 10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 1: Defenses against Infectious Pathogens
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| 10:45-11:25 |
Tom Aebischer (Edinburgh)
"Helicobacter pylori: An update on vaccine development and correlates of immunity"
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| 11:25-12:05 |
Antonio Coutinho (Oeiras)
To be announced
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| 12:05-12:45 |
Gillis R. Otten (Emeryville)
To be announced
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| 13:00-14:15 |
Lunch Break |
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Poster Session I
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14:15-15:45
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Guided Poster Session & Coffee
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Session 2: Biotech boosts Tumorimmunology
Chairperson:
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16:00-16:30
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Özlem Türeci (Ganymed, Mainz)
"Novel antibody therapeutics for solid cancers"
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16:30-17:00
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Marlies Sproll (Morphosys, Martinsried)
"Human monoclonal antibodies for therapy"
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17:00-17:30
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Mark Krul (Isa Pharmaceuticals, Leiden)
"The benefits of biomedical venturing"
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Scientific Program Meeting 2007
Day 2 (13th April 2007) |
Session 3: Tumor Vaccines
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08:30-09:10
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Hans-Georg Rammensee (Tübingen)
"Tumor-associated peptides for individualized vaccination"
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09:10-09:50
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Christian Ottensmeier (Southampton)
"DNA fusion vaccines against prostate cancer: from the bench to the bedside"
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09:50-10:30
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Pramod Srivastava (Farmington)
"gp96-peptide complexes for immunotherapy of stage IV melanoma and adjuvant renal cell carcinoma"
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10:30-11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00-11:40
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Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia)
"Listeria based vaccines for breast and cervical cancer"
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Session 4: Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy
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| 11:40-12:20
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Jeffrey V. Ravetch (New York)
"Antibodies and their receptors: linking innate and adaptive immunity"
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12:20-13:00
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George Weiner (Iowa City)
"Complement and cellular cytotoxicity in antibody therapy of cancer"
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Poster Session II
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14:00-15:30
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Guided Poster Session & Coffee
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Session 4 (cont.): Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy
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15:30-16:10
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Dario Neri (Zurich)
"Antibody-based vascular tumor targeting: from the bench to the clinic"
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16:10-16:50
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Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles)
"Antibody-cytokine fusion proteins: applications in cancer therapy"
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Session 5: Development of Immunity
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| 16:50-17:30
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Harald von Boehmer (Boston)
"Foxp3 positive Treg: generation, lifestyle and function"
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20:00
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Dinner at ”Fürstensaal Residenz Würzburg”
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Scientific Program Meeting 2007
Day 3 (14th April 2007) |
Session 5 (cont.): Development of Immunity
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08:30-09:10
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Bruno Kyewski (Heidelberg)
"How promiscuity promotes tolerance"
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09:10-09:50
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Sjoerd H. van der Burg (Leiden)
"Tumor-specific T-regulatory cells in tumor-specific vaccination
strategies"
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09:50-10:30
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Thomas Boehm (Freiburg)
"Quality strategies in self/non-self discrimination"
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10:30-11:00
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Coffee Break
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Session 6: Host-pathogen Interactions
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11:00-11:40
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Jörg Hacker (Würzburg)
"Host - microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract:
Escherichia coli as an example"
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11:40-12:30
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Vincenzo Bronte (Padua)
"Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer:
a novel target for therapeutic invention"
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12:30-13:10
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Emmanuel Lemichez (Nice)
"Uropathogenic E. coli CNF1 toxin molecular mechanism of action and application in vaccinology"
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13:10-13:50
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Dirk Bumann (Hannover)
"System-level analysis of Salmonella-host interactions"
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13:50-14:30
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Lunch Break
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Satellite Session "CIMT Monitoring Panel"
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Andreas Thiel (Berlin)
"Direct access to CD4 T cells specific for defined antigens according to CD154 expression"
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| 15:00-15:30
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Helmut M. Diepolder (Munich)
"HLA class II tetramers for enumeration and phenotyping of hepatitis C virus specific CD4+ T cells"
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| 15:30-16:00
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Cedrik M. Britten (Leiden)
"Lessons learned from interlaboratory testing in phases I/2005 and II/2006"
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| 16:00-16:15
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Announcement of new panel activities and inter-laboratory testing projects
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| 16:15-16:45
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Round table discussion
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