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Scientific Program

The Agenda will be subject to change until the day of the conference !!!
(February 28)


Day 1 (12th April 2007)
08:30-08:45
Welcoming Address
   
Keynote Lectures
08:45-09:30 Harald zur Hausen (Heidelberg)
"Infections and cancer: novel modes of cancer prevention"
09:30-10:15 Fritz Melchers (Berlin)
"Bone marrow transplantation revised"
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
   
Session 1: Defenses against Infectious Pathogens
10:45-11:25 Tom Aebischer (Edinburgh)
"Helicobacter pylori: An update on vaccine development and correlates of immunity"
11:25-12:05 Antonio Coutinho (Oeiras)
To be announced
12:05-12:45 Gillis R. Otten (Emeryville)
To be announced
13:00-14:15 Lunch Break
   
Poster Session I
14:15-15:45
Guided Poster Session & Coffee
   
Session 2: Biotech boosts Tumorimmunology
Chairperson:
16:00-16:30
Özlem Türeci (Ganymed, Mainz)
"Novel antibody therapeutics for solid cancers"
16:30-17:00
Marlies Sproll (Morphosys, Martinsried)
"Human monoclonal antibodies for therapy"
17:00-17:30
Mark Krul (Isa Pharmaceuticals, Leiden)
"The benefits of biomedical venturing"
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Day 2 (13th April 2007)
Session 3: Tumor Vaccines
08:30-09:10
Hans-Georg Rammensee (Tübingen)
"Tumor-associated peptides for individualized vaccination"
09:10-09:50
Christian Ottensmeier (Southampton)
"DNA fusion vaccines against prostate cancer: from the bench to the bedside"
09:50-10:30
Pramod Srivastava (Farmington)
"gp96-peptide complexes for immunotherapy of stage IV melanoma and adjuvant renal cell carcinoma"
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:40
Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia)
"Listeria based vaccines for breast and cervical cancer"
   
Session 4: Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy
11:40-12:20 Jeffrey V. Ravetch (New York)
"Antibodies and their receptors: linking innate and adaptive immunity"
12:20-13:00
George Weiner (Iowa City)
"Complement and cellular cytotoxicity in antibody therapy of cancer"
13:00-14:00  Lunch Break
   
Poster Session II
14:00-15:30
Guided Poster Session & Coffee
   
Session 4 (cont.): Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy
15:30-16:10
Dario Neri (Zurich)
"Antibody-based vascular tumor targeting: from the bench to the clinic"
16:10-16:50
Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles)
"Antibody-cytokine fusion proteins: applications in cancer therapy"
   
Session 5: Development of Immunity
16:50-17:30 Harald von Boehmer (Boston)
"Foxp3 positive Treg: generation, lifestyle and function"
20:00
Dinner at ”Fürstensaal Residenz Würzburg”
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Day 3 (14th April 2007)
Session 5 (cont.): Development of Immunity

08:30-09:10
Bruno Kyewski (Heidelberg)
"How promiscuity promotes tolerance"
09:10-09:50
Sjoerd H. van der Burg (Leiden)
"Tumor-specific T-regulatory cells in tumor-specific vaccination
strategies"
09:50-10:30
Thomas Boehm (Freiburg)
"Quality strategies in self/non-self discrimination"
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
   
Session 6: Host-pathogen Interactions
11:00-11:40
Jörg Hacker (Würzburg)
"Host - microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract:
Escherichia coli as an example"
11:40-12:30
Vincenzo Bronte (Padua)
"Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer:
a novel target for therapeutic invention"
12:30-13:10
Emmanuel Lemichez (Nice)
"Uropathogenic E. coli CNF1 toxin molecular mechanism of action and application in vaccinology"
13:10-13:50
Dirk Bumann (Hannover)
"System-level analysis of Salmonella-host interactions"
13:50-14:30
Lunch Break
   
Satellite Session "CIMT Monitoring Panel"
14:30-15:00 Andreas Thiel (Berlin)
"Direct access to CD4 T cells specific for defined antigens according to CD154 expression"
15:00-15:30 Helmut M. Diepolder (Munich)
"HLA class II tetramers for enumeration and phenotyping of hepatitis C virus specific CD4+ T cells"
15:30-16:00 Cedrik M. Britten (Leiden)
"Lessons learned from interlaboratory testing in phases I/2005 and II/2006"
16:00-16:15 Announcement of new panel activities and inter-laboratory testing projects
16:15-16:45 Round table discussion
   


 

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