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Immune Monitoring Workshop

Schedule

08:00 to 08:15 Introductory Remarks
Welcome and Housekeeping (5 mins) 
Michael Atkins  

CTEP Involvment (5 mins) 
Jamie Zwiebel

FDA Interests (5 mins) 
Alexandra Worobec
08:15 to 09:45  Background Lectures
Overcoming T Cell dysfunction
Jim Finke/Gabrilovich

AIDS/HIV Vaccine Experience
Norm Letvin

Immune Monitoring; Workshop plan
Jeff Weber
09:45 to 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 to 12:00 Breakout sessions I: Monitoring of Cancer Vaccine Trials
Topics Leaders
Elispot/ELISA  Jeff Schlom
Carmen Scheibenbogen
Tetramer analyses Walter Storkus
Peter Lee
Flow Cytometry for cytokine secretion Kim Lyerly
Skip Maino
Real Time PCR Franco Marincola
Pedro Romero
T Cell receptor function  Martin Kast
Dmitri Gabrilovitch
James Finke
T Helper and Antibody Assays/LDA Nora Disis
Jim Mule
12:00 to 13:00 Lunch
13:00 to 13:45 Special Lecture: The Critical Role of CD4 Cells in Tumor Immunity
Implications for Evaluation of CD4 Responses in Immunotherapy
Drew Pardoll
13:45 to 15:25 Report of Breakout Groups
15:25 to 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 to 16:30 Continuation of Reports of Breakout Groups
16:30 to 17:30 Panel discussion-Consensus and Practical applications
17:30 Farewell: Ulrich Keilholz- Future Plans
18:30-20:00 Writing Committee Working Dinner (location TBA)

 



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