Innovations in Immunotherapy and CAR‑T Targeting

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Novalia Pishesha

  Harvard University/Boston Children's Hospital
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Track Chair(s)

• AA

  Aylin Acun, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Widener University
  Avondale, Pennsylvania, United States
• CT

  Cheemeng Tan

  Professor
  University of California, Davis
  Davis, California, United States

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Hossein Tavana, PhD

  Professor/Department Chair
  University of Akron
  Akron, Ohio, United States

Presentations:

• 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM PDT

  Ultrasound-Inducible Hypoxia-Gated Solid Orthogonal Antigen for CAR-T Therapy in Solid Tumors
  

  Presenting Author: Tianze Paul Guo – USC

  Co-Author: Ziyue Zhu – USC

  Co-Author: Yunjia Qu – UCSD

  Co-Author: Xi Yu – USC

  Co-Author: Linshan Zhu, PhD – USC

  Co-Author: Jiaxin (Katie) Cui – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Peixiang He – UCSD
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

  Genetic Engineering of Solid Tumors With Enter for Fus Inducible Antigen Presentation in CAR-T Cell Therapy
  

  Presenting Author: Jiaxin (Katie) Cui – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Yuxuan Wang – USC

  Co-Author: Xi Yu – USC

  Co-Author: Yunjia Qu – UCSD

  Co-Author: Peixiang He – UCSD

  Co-Author: Tianze Paul Guo – USC

  Co-Author: Chi Woo Yoon – USC

  Co-Author: Zhou Yuan – USC

  Co-Author: Linshan Zhu, PhD – USC

  Co-Author: Ada Yixuan Huang – USC

  Co-Author: Jing Hu – USC

  Co-Author: Longwei Liu – USC
• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM PDT

  Engineering Antibody/Cytokine Fusion Proteins to Selectively Inhibit Tumor-Infiltrating Regulatory T Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Luke M. Tomasovic – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  Co-Author: Sofia Farhangnia – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: JAKUB TOMALA – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Drew Pardoll – Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

  Last Author: Jamie Spangler – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Jamie Spangler – Johns Hopkins University
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

  Regulation of antigen-specific response to peptide therapeutics is independent of distribution in lymph nodes
  

  Presenting Author: Ryan McIlvaine – Fischell Department of Bioengineering/University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Senta Kapnick, PhD – Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices/University of Maryland; Veterans Affairs MD Healthcare System/Department of Veterans Affairs

  Co-Author: Sean T. Carey – Fischell Department of Bioengineering/University of Maryland

  Last Author: Christopher Jewell – Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices/University of Maryland; Veterans Affairs MD Healthcare System/Department of Veterans Affairs

  Primary Investigator: Christopher Jewell – Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices/University of Maryland; Veterans Affairs MD Healthcare System/Department of Veterans Affairs
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM PDT

  Engineering Sonogenetic EchoBack-CAR T cells
  

  Presenting Author: Peixiang He – UCSD

  Co-Author: Longwei Liu – USC

  Co-Author: Yuxuan Wang – USC