'10 years Thoracic-Tumor Immunology Laboratory' - symposium

Thoracic-Tumor Immunology Laboratory (Department of Pulmonary Medicine) is celebrating 10 years of translational research collaborations in lung cancer immunology & immunotherapy.

Registration (required): via QR-code in flyer

Venue: Campus UZ Gent K3 3rd floor room 3.1

Program:

  • 13:30: 10Y TTIL: Short introduction - Karim Vermaelen
     
  • 13:45: 'MIDRIX4-LUNG: A first-in-human study of mRNA-dendritic cell immunotherapy in heavily 
  • pretreated metastatic lung cancer patients' – Dieter Stevens
  • 14:15: 'Unravelling dendritic cell immunotherapy-induced T-cell responses to neo-antigens in nonsmall cell lung cancer' – Joline Ingels
  • 14:45: 'Towards clinical translation of the Galsome mRNA vaccine platform for lung cancer' – Ine 
  • Lentacker
  • 15:15: 'Preclinical strategies to evaluate human autologous cellular immunotherapy efficacy against 
  • human tumors' – Sandra Van Lint
     
  • 15:45: Coffee and cake
     
  • 16:15: 'Dendritic cells: a journey from lung to lung cancer' – Karim Vermaelen
  • 16:45: 'Integrating blood-based transcriptomics and epigenomics to predict clinical outcomes in 
  • checkpoint inhibitor-treated lung cancer patients' – Celine Everaert
  • 17:15: 'Identifying non coding RNA regulators of tumor-mediated T-cell suppression using CRISPRi 
  • screens' – Pieter Mestdagh
  • 17:45: 'The gut microbiome as a determinant of response to cancer immunotherapy' – Ioanna Petta
     
  • 18:15: Closing Remarks – Karim Vermaelen
     
  • 18:30: Drinks and more cake