Defence is the Best Attack: Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs

Barcelona, Spain : 13 - 15 May 2025

Scientific Programme

Tuesday 13th May 2025

Listed times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST)

11:30

REGISTRATION

12:30

WELCOME LUNCH

13:30

CONFERENCE WELCOME

Session 1

Session Chair: Joan Seoane

13:40

Myriam Chalabi NKI Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Neoadjuvant immunotherapy in pMMR and dMMR colorectal cancers

Q&A 14:00 - 14:10

14:10

Marcela Maus Harvard, Cambridge, USA

Driving new CAR T cells

Q&A 14:30 - 14:40

14:40

The EMBO Keynote Lecture

Ido Amit Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

The power of ONE: Immunology in the age of spatial and single cell genomics

Q&A 15:00 - 15:10

15:10

COFFEE BREAK & SOLO TRAVELLERS' MEET-UP

15:40

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM - ELITE SPONSOR

16:10

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Antoni Ribas UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Multicellular interactions mediating response and resistance to cancer immunotherapy

Q&A 16:40 - 16:55

16:55

Omer Dushek Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Reducing off-target cross-reactivity without impacting on-target sensitivity for safe and effective TCR-T cell therapies

Q&A 17:15 - 17:25

17:25

5 Proffered Papers

18:25

COFFEE BREAK

18:55

Speed Networking

19:25

WELCOME BUFFET & DRINKS

20:05

POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION 1

Wednesday 14th May 2025

Listed times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST)

Session 2

Session Chair: Yardena Samuels

08:30

5 Proffered Papers

09:30

Johanna Joyce University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Exploring and therapeutically exploiting the tumour microenvironment

Q&A 09:50 - 10:00

10:00

Joan Seoane VHIO, Barcelona, Spain

Impact of the tumor microenvironment on immunotherapies targeting brain cancer

Q&A 10:20 - 10:30

10:30

Maria Casanova-Acebes CNIO, Madrid, Spain

Circadian immunity: can we exploit it therapeutically?

Q&A 10:50 - 11:00

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:30

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM - ELITE SPONSOR

12:00

5 Proffered Papers

13:00

LUNCH

Session 3

Session Chair: Sonia Guedan

14:00

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Alberto Mantovani Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

The yin yang of tumour-associated macrophages

Q&A 14:30 - 14:45

14:45

Filipe Pereira Lund University, Lund, Sweden

A cancer immunotherapy modality based on dendritic cell reprogramming in vivo

Q&A 15:05 - 15:15

15:15

Yardena Samuels Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Revisiting the neoantigen approach to cancer immunotherapy

Q&A 15:35 - 15:45

16:00

COFFEE BREAK

16:30

Panel Discussion: Mechanisms of acquired resistance to immunotherapies

Joan Seoane (VHIO, Barcelona, Spain), Sonia Guedan (Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), Ignacio Melero (Cima Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain), Yardena Samuels (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel), Josep Tabernero (VHIO, Barcelona, Spain)

17:00

5 Proffered Papers

18:00

POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION 2

20:30

CONFERENCE DINNER (optional ticketed event)

Thursday 15th May 2025

Listed times are in Central European Time (CEST)

Session 4

Session Chair: Ignacio Melero

08:30

5 Proffered Papers

09:30

Sonia Guedan IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

Next generation CAR-T cells for cancer treatment

Q&A 09:50 - 10:00

10:00

Christopher Klebanoff Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, USA

Therapeutic targeting of human cancers using CD4+ T cells

Q&A 10:20 - 10:30

10:30

Rony Dahan Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Antibody-based cancer immunotherapies

Q&A 10:50 - 11:00

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:30

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Tak Mak Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada

Metabolic and neural regulation of immunity and cancer

Q&A 12:00 - 12:15

12:15

SUMMARY AND AWARDS PRESENTATION

12:30

DEPART

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