Meetings

Immunoassessment and Interventional Immunology
Satellite Symposia
Thursday, June 7, 2007
San Diego, CA

Tentative Agenda

Agenda
Time Function
9:00 - 9:15 amWelcome
Carl June, MD
Elected Councilor, Clinical Immunology Society
Director, Translational Research, University of Pennsylvania

Axel Hoos, MD PhD
Chair, Executive Council, Cancer Vaccine Consortium
Group Director, Global Clinical Oncology, Bristol-Myers Squibb
9:15 - 9:45 amQualification of Immune Assays for TB Vaccine Trials
Frank Weichold, MD PhD, Director, Immunology and Assay Development Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation
9:45 - 10:15 amImmunoassessment in HIV: Lessons from Elite Non-Progressors
Richard Koup, MD, Chief Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
10:15 - 10:45 amBreak
10:45 - 11:15 amTumor Microenvironment: Biomarkers for Use for Immunoassessment of Cancer Vaccines?
George Coukos, MD PhD, CR Garcia Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
11:15 - 11:45 amCancer Vaccine Consortium: Outcomes from two ELISPOT Proficiency Panels
Sylvia Janetzki, MD PhD, ZellNet Consulting, Inc.
11:45 - 12:45 amLunch
Interventional Immunology Satellite Symposia
12:45 - 1:00 pmWelcome
George Eisenbarth, MD PhD
President, Clinical Immunology Society
Executive Director, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes

Peter Gottlieb, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
1:00 - 1:30 pmSignatures to Guide Choice and Phase I Evaluation of Experimental Therapeutics
Virginia Pascual, MD, Director, Center for Lupus Research, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
1:30 - 2:00 pmType 1A Diabetes Immunotherapeutics - The "Canary" Re Safety
Peter Gottlieb, MD
2:00 - 2:15 pmImmune Opsonins Modulate BLyS/BAFF Release in a Receptor-specific Fashion
Xinrui Li, University of Alabama at Birmingha
2:15 - 2:45 pmCombinatorial Immunotherapy
Terry Strom, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Harvard Medical School
2:45 - 3:15 pmBreak
3:15 - 3:45 pmLupus Trials
Betty Diamond, MD, Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Colombia University Medical Center
3:45 - 4:15 pmCell-based Immunotherapy to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, Director, UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco
4:15 - 4:45 pmPersonalized Genotypic Medicine: Public Health Autoimmunity Goal
George Eisenbarth, MD PhD
4:45 - 5:00 pmOpen Discussion