Immune System: is the body's defense against infectious organisms and other invaders. The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect the body.
DATE: April 4, 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm CEST Multiplex is the ability to characterize three or more biomarkers on a single tissue section. The technique enables the combi...
For a plant that has been legal in some states for over 20 years, there has been an attitude that “cannabis never killed anyone.” While we don’t have the necessary rese...
It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...
In this panel discussion, parents of children using cannabis discuss their experience Herah Osborne: A mother’s story about her journey with her twins having Fragile X syndrome an...
Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) represent a novel method to deliver a drug to diseased cell using the specific antigen-binding capability and internalization process. Antibodies that do not i...
DATE: March 21, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTMass cytometry, or cytometry by time-of-flight (the basis of the CyTOF® system), enables quantification of the abundance and fu...
The field of melanoma has been transformed by the parallel development of effective immune and targeted therapies. There is now strong evidence of cross-talk between oncogenic signaling...
Therapies that activate the host immune system have shown tremendous promise for a wide variety of solid tumors. However, in most cancer types, fewer than half of patients respond to these th...
One of the goals of the “3Rs principle” is to replace in vivo testing methodologies with in vitro procedures on human cells, followed by computational systems biology modelling to...
DATE: December 12, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTSince their discovery, dendritic cells (DCs) have demonstrated a central role in the development of effective immune responses. Their unique abili...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm ESTSuccessful tumor outgrowth requires the coordination of a variety of cell intrinsic and cell extrinsic signaling events. These events...
Transcriptional profiling of the tumor microenvironment can lead to insights about the interaction between the tumor and immune system. This facilitates investigation of immune evasion mechan...
DATE: November 7, 2017 TIME: 10:00AM PSTChimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-transduced T lymphocytes have demonstrated impressive clinical activity against B cell malignancies in...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
Recent advances in flow and mass cytometry have greatly expanded the number of immune cell parameters that can be interrogated, resulting in an improved understanding of the immune system het...
Exosomes are nano-scale lipid membrane-enclosed extracellular vesicles that form in the cellular endosomal system but are released outside the cell. These virus-sized “fat balls”...
Natural killer cells (NKs) are lymphocytes of the innate immune system that target and kill cancer cells through the secretion of lytic granules containing granzyme B and perforin. This proce...
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond. Recent studies show that response to checkpoint blockade does not...
The immune system is complex and dynamic, focused on defending the body from a host of pathogens ranging from viruses to cancer. A number of different mechanisms have evolved that help the bo...
Prokaryotes have long been at war with bacteriophage. The evolutionary pressure of this struggle has led both sides to develop sophisticated defenses. Notably, CRISPR-Cas systems evolved to l...
DATE: September 7, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on can...
In the study of a mucosal vaccine for influenza, we need to evaluate the immune responses against vaccine in the serum and nasal washes. Serum IgG antibodies and mucosal secretory IgA antibod...
DATE: May 2, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 4:00pm GMT, 5:00pm CETThe natural immune responses that patients develop to their own tumors, as well as therapeutic regimens employin...
DATE: April 4, 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm CEST Multiplex is the ability to characterize three or more biomarkers on a single tissue section. The technique enables the combi...
For a plant that has been legal in some states for over 20 years, there has been an attitude that “cannabis never killed anyone.” While we don’t have the necessary rese...
It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...
In this panel discussion, parents of children using cannabis discuss their experience Herah Osborne: A mother’s story about her journey with her twins having Fragile X syndrome an...
Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) represent a novel method to deliver a drug to diseased cell using the specific antigen-binding capability and internalization process. Antibodies that do not i...
DATE: March 21, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTMass cytometry, or cytometry by time-of-flight (the basis of the CyTOF® system), enables quantification of the abundance and fu...
The field of melanoma has been transformed by the parallel development of effective immune and targeted therapies. There is now strong evidence of cross-talk between oncogenic signaling...
Therapies that activate the host immune system have shown tremendous promise for a wide variety of solid tumors. However, in most cancer types, fewer than half of patients respond to these th...
One of the goals of the “3Rs principle” is to replace in vivo testing methodologies with in vitro procedures on human cells, followed by computational systems biology modelling to...
DATE: December 12, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTSince their discovery, dendritic cells (DCs) have demonstrated a central role in the development of effective immune responses. Their unique abili...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm ESTSuccessful tumor outgrowth requires the coordination of a variety of cell intrinsic and cell extrinsic signaling events. These events...
Transcriptional profiling of the tumor microenvironment can lead to insights about the interaction between the tumor and immune system. This facilitates investigation of immune evasion mechan...
DATE: November 7, 2017 TIME: 10:00AM PSTChimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-transduced T lymphocytes have demonstrated impressive clinical activity against B cell malignancies in...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
Recent advances in flow and mass cytometry have greatly expanded the number of immune cell parameters that can be interrogated, resulting in an improved understanding of the immune system het...
Exosomes are nano-scale lipid membrane-enclosed extracellular vesicles that form in the cellular endosomal system but are released outside the cell. These virus-sized “fat balls”...
Natural killer cells (NKs) are lymphocytes of the innate immune system that target and kill cancer cells through the secretion of lytic granules containing granzyme B and perforin. This proce...
There has been a great deal of renewed attention in immuno-oncology over the last decade. Therapies for cancer are being developed, approved, and administered that can either initiate,...
Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond. Recent studies show that response to checkpoint blockade does not...
The immune system is complex and dynamic, focused on defending the body from a host of pathogens ranging from viruses to cancer. A number of different mechanisms have evolved that help the bo...
Prokaryotes have long been at war with bacteriophage. The evolutionary pressure of this struggle has led both sides to develop sophisticated defenses. Notably, CRISPR-Cas systems evolved to l...
DATE: September 7, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on can...
In the study of a mucosal vaccine for influenza, we need to evaluate the immune responses against vaccine in the serum and nasal washes. Serum IgG antibodies and mucosal secretory IgA antibod...
DATE: May 2, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 4:00pm GMT, 5:00pm CETThe natural immune responses that patients develop to their own tumors, as well as therapeutic regimens employin...
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