DAY 1
Thursday. Sep 22, 2022
DAY 1
OPENING
9:00 am - 9:15 am
WELCOME and INTRODUCTION:
Silvia C. Formenti, MD and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
KEYNOTE LECTURE
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Elizabeth Jaffee, MD
Pancreatic cancer is PRIMED to become an immunologic disease
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
SITC PRIMER
CME-ACCREDITED PRIMER ON RADIATION THERAPY
AS A COMBINATORIAL PARTNER FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY
Chairs: Sandra Demaria, MD and Aitziber Buque Martinez, PhD
In collaboration with the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Roberta Zappasodi, PhD
Impact of tumor metabolism on the microenvironment and response to immunotherapy
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
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11:00 am - 11:30 am
Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD
Properties of tumor antigens determining induction of immunity
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Laura Santambrogio, MD, PhD
Saying I DO to cancer immunotherapy
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Anna Wilkins, MD, PhD
How does tumour fibrosis impact radiotherapy responses?
The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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Lunch break
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

MAIN PROGRAM
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
SESSION I
Innovative approaches for radiation delivery
Chairs: Encouse Golden, MD,PhD and Samantha Van Nest, PhD
Sponsored by
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Zachary S. Morris, MD, PhD
Impact of dose heterogeneity and theranostics in priming and propagating anti-tumor immunity
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Marie-Catherine Vozenin, PhD
An immunological role in the FLASH effect, fact or fiction?
Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Constantinos Koumenis, PhD
FLASH proton radiotherapy and interaction with the immune system in the gut
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SESSION II
Circumventing Immunosuppression in the Tumor Microenvironment
Chairs: Ariel E. Marciscano, MD and Mara De Martino, PhD
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
John Stagg, PhD
The adenosine-producing immune checkpoint CD73 regulates DNA damage responses
Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Sana Karam, MD, PhD
Beyond the Local TME: Modulating Radiation’s Immune Response in HNSCC
University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
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5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, MD, PhD
Predictive value of TGFβ biology in cancer therapy
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Silvia Chiara Formenti, MD
Dynamics of immune response in irradiated cancers: Trial design
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
POSTER SESSION
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