SITC Annual Meeting & Pre-Conference Programs

35^th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Pre-Conference Programs (SITC 2020)

Same location, NEW days: Tuesday, Nov. 10–Sunday, Nov.15, 2020
Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md.

In celebration of the society's 35^th anniversary, all current student members of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) will receive free registration to the 35^th Anniversary Annual Meeting! To learn more about becoming a SITC member, click here.

Here are important dates to remember: 

Thank You to Our Organizers

Annual Program Committee CHAIR

Sandra Demaria, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine

35^th Anniversary Annual Meeting Organizers

Helen E. Heslop, MD – Baylor College of Medicine
Brianna W. Hoffner, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP – Harborside
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

35^th Anniversary Annual Meeting Program Committee Members

Ana Carrizosa Anderson, PhD – Harvard Medical School
Davide Bedognetti, MD, PhD – Sidra Medicine
Marianne Davies, DNP, AOCNP – Yale School of Nursing
Patrick Hwu, MD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Immunotherapy Resistance and failure Organizers

Primer on tumor immunology and cancer Immunotherapy™ Organizers

Michael A. Curran, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yvonne Saenger, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

workshop on engineering immune cells for cancer therapy Organizers

Christine Brown, PhD – City of Hope
Katayoun Rezvani, MD, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Marco Ruella, MD – University of Pennsylvania

Grant writing workshop organizers

Keynotes Announced

Keynote address: Turning immunologically quiescent tumors into immune responsive cancers

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD – Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

35^th Anniversary Keynote: t cell therapy of cancer

Helen E. Heslop, MD – Baylor College of Medicine

richard v. smalley, md, memorial award and lectureship

Lieping Chen, MD, PhD – Yale School of Medicine
Gordon Freeman, PhD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School

The following are future scheduled dates and locations for the society's Annual Meeting & Pre-Conference Programs: