MODULATING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT DISEASE (Theater 1, L1)

Concurrent Speaker(s)

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  Megan Levings, PhD

  School of Biomedical Engineering
  University of British Columbia, Canada
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  John Rasko

  Cynata Therapeutics

Presenting Author(s)

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  Marco Cortese, PhD (he/him/his)

  Oncology
  Candiolo Cancer Institute, Italy
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  Asuka Morizane, PhD MD

  Regeneratirve medicine
  Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Japan
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  Lili Yang, PhD

  Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States

Presentations:

• BUILDING AN ENHANCED IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT DISEASE
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia
• IMMUNE RESPONSE IN IPSC-BASED ALLOGENEIC CELL THERAPY FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE
  

  Presenting Author: Asuka Morizane, PhD MD – Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital
• SYNNOTCH/CAR-BASED COMBINATORIAL IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST COLORECTAL CANCER WITH HER2 AMPLIFICATION IN NK AND IPSC-DERIVED NK CELLS.
  

  Presenting Author: Marco Cortese, PhD (he/him/his) – Candiolo Cancer Institute
• GENERATION OF ALLOGENEIC CAR-NKT CELLS FROM HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS USING A CLINICALLY GUIDED CULTURE METHOD
  

  Presenting Author: Lili Yang, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• FIRST HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS OF iPSC-DERIVED MSCs
  

  Concurrent Speaker: John Rasko – Cynata Therapeutics