Cancer Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation & Immunotherapy

Session Chair(s)

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  Yubin Zhou, PhD, MD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Texas A&M University
  Houton, Texas, United States
• DL

  Daeyong Lee

  Virginia Tech

Track Chair(s)

• EP

  Erica Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Boston University
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• MO

  Madeleine Oudin

  Tufts University

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EST

  In Vivo T Cell Display of Masked Protease-Activatable Receptors for Deep Profiling of the Substrate Repertoire in Cancer
  

  Invited Speaker: Gabe Kwong, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Engineering an Immunoactive Tumor Microenvironment Utilizing Cold-Responsive Nanoparticles for Cryoimmunotherapy of Breast Cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Wenquan Ou, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park

  Primary Investigator: Xiaoming He, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Extracellular matrix scaffold assisted cancer vaccine enhances anti-tumor efficacy and provides long term protection
  

  Presenting Author: Sanjay Pal, PhD (he/him/his) – National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health

  Co-Author: Rohan Chaudhari – National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health

  Co-Author: Iris Baurceanu, B.S. (she/her/hers) – National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health

  Co-Author: Brenna J. Hill, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health

  Co-Author: Bethany Nagy (she/her/hers) – National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health

  Primary Investigator: Matthew T. Wolf, PhD (he/him/his) – National Cancer Institute
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  Local Reprogramming Nanoparticles Generate Systemic Immunity and Potent Anti-Tumor Responses in Vivo
  

  Presenting Author: Kathryn Luly, BS (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins

  Co-Author: Jonathan Lai (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins

  Co-Author: Sachin S. Surwase, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  Co-Author: Erick E. Rocher – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Jordan J. Green, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Joel Sunshine, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

  Primary Investigator: Stephany Y. Tzeng, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  Reprogramming the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment: Turning Hypoxic Immunologically “Cold” Ovarian Tumors into “Hot” Tumors
  

  Presenting Author: Simona Plesselova, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research

  Primary Investigator: Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Bispecific therapeutics for next-generation combination immunotherapy
  

  Presenting Author: Tanmoy Saha, PhD (he/him/his) – Brigham and Women's Hoapital, Harvard Medical School