ReMission Summit on Brain Tumors
Rosen Shingle Creek Resort | Orlando, FL | USA
Friday, March 18th, 2022
7:00p | Early Registration and Think Tank Working Meeting |
Saturday, March 19th, 2022
8:00a | Breakfast Served |
9:00a |
ReMission Summit Opening SessionOpening Remarks ReMission Alliance Update ReMission Scholarship Presentation Friends of Jacqueline Presentation |
10:10a – 10:50a |
Special Guest Speaker Stefan Leichenauer, Sandbox Quantum “AI, Quantum, and Current Medical Applications” |
10:50a – 11:10a | Break (10 minutes) |
11:10a |
Session IPediatric Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Featuring: Michael Taylor – Toronto Sick Kids “Group 4 Medulloblastoma is a hamartoma of the H. Sapiens rhombic lip, and could be prevented through post-natal screening and immunotherapy” Elias Sayour – University of Florida “Overcoming GBM immunosuppression with systemic mRNA delivery” Tobey MacDonald – Emory “Targeting STAT3, a Master Regulator of Anti-Tumor Immune Response, in Pediatric Medulloblastoma” Discussion |
12:20p | Lunch Break (1 hr 10 minutes) |
1:30p |
Session IICancer Engineering Featuring: Betty Kim – MD Anderson “Engineering Approaches to Cancer Therapy” Dennis Discher – U Penn “Engineered phagocytes for tumor elimination and anti-cancer vaccination” Carlos Rinaldi – University of Florida “Labeling immune cells with a new tracer tailored for sensitive tracking using magnetic particle imaging (MPI)” Discussion |
2:45p |
Session IIIT Cells and Stem Cells Featuring: Jeremy Rich – University of Pittsburgh Heike Daldrup-Link – Stanford “Imaging CAR T-Cell Therapy” Sue Kaech – Salk Institute “Regulation of anti-tumor immune responses to GBM via microglia-CD4 T cell cross talk” Catherine Flores – University of Florida “Stem cell immunotherapy against pediatric high grade gliomas” Discussion |
4:15p | Break (10 minutes) |
4:30p-5:00p |
Keynote Speaker Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology “Beyond the Human Genome Program: A Million Person Demonstration on the Science of Wellness and Prevention” |
5:00p-6:00p |
ReMission Summit Workshop & Discussion “Disruptive Innovation in Brain Tumor Immunotherapy” |
7:00p | Luau Dinner – attire: tropical/casual |
9:30p – 12:00a | Think Tank Working Meeting |
Sunday, March 20th, 2022
8:00a | Breakfast Served |
9:00a |
Session IVMetabolism and Microenvironment Featuring: Loic Deleyrolle – University of Florida “Metabolic manipulation of T cells to treat brain tumors” Anindya Bagchi – Sanford Burnham “Modulating mitochondrial dynamics to improve immune memory” Dolares Hambardzumyan – Mount Sinai “The Role of myeloid in Glioblastoma” Justin Lathia – Cleveland Clinic “Leveraging sex differences in the tumor microenvironment for more effective immunotherapies.” Discussion |
10:30a |
Session VGlioblastoma Immunity & Immunotherapy Featuring: Mark Gilbert – National Cancer Institute “Optimizing Patient Selection for Immunotherapy: Biologic and Computational Approaches” Peter Fecci – Duke “The Undoing: The Demise of the T cell Amidst GBM” Michael Platten – German Cancer Institute “Immune targeting of shared clonal diver mutations in gliomas.” Discussion |
11:45a – 12:00p | Closing Remarks |