Immunoengineering - Poster Session A & B

Track Chair(s)

• PW

  Peter Yingxiao Wang, phd

  professor
  usc
• 

  Daniel Abebayehu, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Virginia, United States

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Breaking Barriers in Immunotherapy: Gene-Edited, Self-Sustaining T Cells with Interleukin-2 for Long-Lasting Cancer Defense
  

  Presenting Author: Pei-Ying pei-yinglo2026@u.northwes, PhD Candidate – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Abdalla Abdrabou

  Primary Investigator: Shana Kelley – Northwestern University
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Modulating Antigen Processing through Metal-Organic Framework Vaccines to Bias Adaptive Immunity
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle H. Teplensky, PhD – Boston University

  Co-Author: Ezra Cho – Boston University

  Last Author: Michelle H. Teplensky, PhD – Boston University

  Primary Investigator: Michelle H. Teplensky, PhD – Boston University
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Immune Checkpoint-Conjugated Hydrogels to Treat Psoriasis
  

  Presenting Author: Kenneth M. Kim, MS – Drexel University College of Medicine

  Co-Author: Arielle M. D'Elia, M.S. – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Lindsay A. Hager – Drexel University

  Primary Investigator: Christopher B. Rodell – School of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Targeted deletion of non-neutralizing HIV germinal center B cells using antigen-drug conjugates
  

  Presenting Author: Asheley Chapman, PhD – The Scripps Research Institute

  Co-Author: Elias Paolone – Scripps Research

  Co-Author: Parastoo Amlashi, n/a – MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

  Co-Author: Heikyung Suh – Scripps Research Institute

  Last Author: Darrell Irvine – Scripps Research

  Primary Investigator: Darrell Irvine – Scripps Research
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Modeling the Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment in Glioblastoma Using HA-Based 3D Hydrogels
  

  Presenting Author: Delaram Parvin – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Alireza Sohrabi – University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Janielle Cuala – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Arkadi Shwartz – Translational Imaging Center

  Co-Author: Stephanie Seidlits – University of Texas Austin

  Primary Investigator: Rex Moats – Children's hospital Los Angles

  Last Author: Scott Fraser – University of Southern Califronia
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Evaluation of the Immune Response Generated by Lyme Disease Epitopes Expressed on Outer Membrane Vesicles
  

  Presenting Author: Stephanie Curley – Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Union College

  Primary Investigator: Stephanie Curley – Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Union College

  Co-Author: David Krimer – Union College

  Co-Author: Cagla Numanoglu – Union College

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Bias – Union College
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Induction of Cytotoxic Function in CD4+ T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
  

  Presenting Author: Mara Lanis – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

  Co-Author: Nina M. Nair – Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering Department

  Co-Author: Sujin Kim, MSE – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Opal Jawale, n/a – The Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Lana Cheng – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Sia Badri – Johns Hopkins University

  Last Author: Jonathan Schneck – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

  Primary Investigator: Jonathan Schneck – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  Nanotube-mediated mitochondrial transfer in modulating T cell fitness
  

  Presenting Author: Tanmoy Saha, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hoapital, Harvard Medical School
• 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

  siRNA-LNP driven macrophage checkpoint silencing to promote anti-tumor immune cell activation in invasive breast cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Angelina Schorr – Brown University

  Co-Author: Joshua O. Acosta Gonzalez – Brown University

  Co-Author: ShuLan Holmes-Farley – Brown University

  Primary Investigator: Theresa M. Raimondo, PhD – Brown University