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  • Thursday, 14th

    10:00 MEETING REGISTRATION OPENS
    10:30 - 12:30 PRE-MEETING SYMPOSIUM: ORAL PRESENTATIONS
    Moderators:
    María Casanova-Acebes. Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Spain.
    13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
    14:00 - 16:00  POSTER PRESENTATIONS
    Evaluators:
    Pascual Martinez. University of Alicante (UA), Spai.
    Roser Vilarrasa Blasi. Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK.
    17:00  - 17:30  SYMPOSIUM WELCOME
    Amparo Navarro Faure. Dean of the University of Alicante (UA).
    Jordi Cano Ochando. President of the Symposium (A-WISH)
    Marcos Lopez Hoyos. President of the Spanish Society for Immunology (SEI).
    Silvia Sanchez Ramon. President Elected of the Spanish Society for Immunology (SEI).
    17:30 - 18:00 INAUGURAL LECTURE
    Maria Blasco. Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Spain. 
    18:00 - 20:00 SESSION 1. CELL THERAPY
    Moderator: África González. University of Vigo, Spain.

    Driving CAR T cells.
    Marcela Maus. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), US.

    Driving" CAR-T therapy from the academy to centralized authorization for use; a different and probably necessary option  for a better future of ATMPs and their patients.

    Manel Juan. Clínic de Barcelona (HCB) Hospital, Spain.

    Naïve T cell depleted hematopoietic graft and solid organ transplantation.
    Antonio Pérez. La Paz University Hospital, Spain.

    Empowering Cancer Immunotherapy with Cellular Reprogramming.
    Filipe Pereira. Lund University, Sweden.
  • Friday, 15th

    09:30 - 11:00  SESSION 2. IMMUNOTHERAPY BEYOND CANCER
    Moderator: Daniel Lozano-Ojalvo. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.

    James Hutchinson. University Hospital Regensburg, Germany

    Nuria Montserrat. Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC), Spain.

    Control of inflammation after stem cell transplantation
      
    Robert Zeiser. Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Germany.

    Immunotherapeutic Approaches to Address the Worldwide Epidemic of Food Allergy.
    Hugh Sampson. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.
    11:00 - 11:30  Coffee break
    12:30 - 14:00  SESSION 3. IMMUNE CHECKPOINT AND METABOLISM
    Moderator: Claudia Rita. MD Anderson Madrid, Spain.

    Ignacio Melero. Clinic of the University of Navarra, Spain.

    Padmanee Sharma. MD Anderson Cancer Center, US.

    Luis Álvarez Vallina. 12 de Octubre University Hospital, Spain

    The role of cancer in dictating anti-tumor immune responses by modulation of specific metabolic pathways.
    Elia Ilaria. University of Leuven, Belgium.
    14:00 - 15:00  Lunch break
    15:00 - 17:00  SESSION 4. BIOMARKERS & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
    Moderator: Iria Gomez-Touriño. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

    Florent Ginhoux. Gustave Roussy Cancer Center (GRCC), France.
    Maria Casanova-Acebes. Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Spain.
    Roser Vento Tormo & Roser Vilarrasa Blasi. Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK.
    Sara Cuadrado-Castaño. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, US.
    17:00 - 17:30  Coffee break
    17:30 - 20:00 CLOSING SESSION & AWARD CEREMONY
    KEYNOTE LECTURER
    James Allison. MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA.
    AWARD CEREMONY

    Flirting with death. How dendritic cells perceive dying cancer cells.

    Guido Kroemer. European Hospital George Pompidou, France.

    The dirty secrets of cancer immunotherapy: the gut microbiome.
    Lauren Zitvogel. Gustave Roussy Cancer Center (GRCC), France.