Overview of Satellite

Immunoassessment Morning Session

• Target Audience: physicians and researchers involved in the process of development, standardization and validation of immunoassays used for immune assessment in clinical trials, as well as physicians and personnel involved in clinical trials using immunotherapeutics.
• Content: immunoassessment strategies including assay development, standardization and validation and their implementation in preparation for clinical trials.
• Objective: formulate common guidelines for immunoassessment strategies, across various fields of employment (cancer, infectious and autoimmune diseases), and provide guidelines and general information for physicians and researchers involved.

Interventional Immunology Afternoon Session

• Target audience: physician specialists in the fields that utilize immunotherapy and, in particular, for physicians where immunotherapy is not currently a major consideration.
• Content: genomics and biotechnology and clinical trial expertise.
• Objective: improve knowledge of utility of both messenger RNA arrays and high throughput snp typing; improve knowledge of asymptomatic prospective viral monitoring with utilization of immunotherapeutics; have an introduction to cell based immunotherapies and additional novel immunotherapeutics.