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.

Click here to learn more about SITC 2020, register to attend and view the most current schedule and program information. 

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 Cancer Center
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: