BioCARE Advanced Seminar CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

BioCARE Advanced Seminar
CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
Nov 19, 2015
Lecture Hall Arvid Carlsson, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3,
University of Gothenburg
09.20-09.50 Coffee
09.50-10.00 Welcome address, Göran Stenman
10.00–11.00 ”PD1 immune therapy”, Prof. Gordon J. Freeman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (Sahlgrenska Academy Seminar)
11.00-11.30 ”Targeting IL1RAP in leukemia”, Prof. Thoas Fioretos, Dept. of Clinical Genetics,
LU, Sweden
11.30-12.15 Lunch
12.15-13.15 ”Regulation of immune response in cancer by myeloid cells”, Prof. Dmitri I.
Gabrilovich, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA (Sahlgrenska Academy
Seminar)
13.15-13.35 ”Dynamics of memory and effector T-cells during immunotherapy”
Assoc. prof. Anna Martner, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, GU, Sweden
13.35-13.55 ”The role of NK-cells in myeloid leukemia”, Assoc. prof. Fredrik Bergh Thorén,
Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, GU, Sweden
13.55-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.00 ”TBA”, Prof. Klas Kärre, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
15:00-15:30 ”CAR T-Cells for B-Cell Lymphoma and Leukemia - The Swedish Experience”,
Prof. Angelica Loskog, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology,
Uppsala University, Sweden
15.30-15.50 ”Patient-derived xenografts as tools for efficacy studies of targeted and immune
therapies”, Prof. Jonas Nilsson, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, GU, Sweden