Our next congress
INCIT congress 26
Incit congress 26
Immunology and New Concepts in ImmunoTherapy
This third edition of the INCIT congress aims at reviewing the latest developments in the identification of new cell therapy targets and strategies, recent advances in immunomodulation and therapeutic targeting in cancer, infectious and inflammatory diseases, by leading researchers in these fields and by INCIT researchers.
Location
IRS UN à Nantes (8 quai Moncousu – 44000, FR) Salle : amphithéâtre
Dates & Timetables
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026 @ 12:00
Wednesdat, September 16th, 2026 @ 17:00
Prices
Early bird registration (until July 18th 2026)
90 € for students
170 € for researchers
Registration fee (after July 18th 2026)
130 € for students
220 € for researchers
Abstract submission
You can complete the following form and send it to valerie.pecqueret@univ-nantes.fr
Deadline : 15 July 2026 !
Abstract submission
Invited speakers
Drew Pardoll
Florent Ginhoux
Christophe Paget
Christelle Harly
Joana Neves
Etienne Meunier
Franck Housseau
Jérôme Galon
Jordan Dimitrov
Christelle Retière
Program – FLYER INCIT 26
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Noon • Welcome lunch
1:00 pm • Meeting introduction / INCIT Overview – Frédéric Altare, PhD – INCIT, Nantes University, France
1:30 pm • Keynote – Drew Pardoll, MD/PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, USA – « _____________________ »
Session # 1 – Basic immunology – Lymphocyte and Myeloid development (Chairman : J. Neves & M. Chamaillard)
2:30 pm •Christophe Paget, PhD – Centre d’Etude des Pathologies Respiratoires, Tours, France – « MAIT cell-dependent MIF controls bacterial pneumonia »
3:00 pm • Selected short talk
3:15 pm • Coffee break & Poster session
3:45 pm • Florent Ginhoux, MD-PhD – Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France – « Harnessing Tumor Macrophage Heterogeneity »
4:15 pm • Selected short talk
4:30 pm • Christelle Harly, PhD – CRCI2NA, Nantes University, France – « NFIL3 specifies the innate lymphoid cell fate through gene repression »
5:00 pm • 2 Selected short talks
6:00 pm • Poster session
7:00 pm • Cocktail
Wednesday, September 16th 2026
Session # 2 Microenviromment and immune regulation (Chairmen : A. Jarry & J. Dimitrov)
9:00 am • Joana Neves, PhD – King’s College London, UK – « Intestinal interactions of innate lymphoid cells in health and disease »
9:30 am • Selected short talk
9:45 am • Etienne Meunier, PhD – IPBS Toulouse, France – « The NLRP1 inflammasome: Protecting the borders »
10:15 am • Coffee break & Poster session
10:45 am • Franck Housseau, PharmD, PhD – Lille University, France – « « Engineered MAIT TCRs to Redirect Adoptive Cytotoxic T Cells toward MR1 in Cancer«
11:15 am • Selected short talks
Noon • Lunch
Session # 3 New targets and strategies for immunotherapies (Chairmen : K. Gagne & C. Paget)
1:30 pm • Jérôme Galon, PhD – Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology – Sorbonne Université, Paris, France – « The precancerous and cancer immune contexture »
2:00 pm • Jordan Dimitrov, PhD – Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France – « Heme-binding antibodies: prevalence, mechanism and therapeutic potential «
2:30 pm • Selected short talk
2.45 pm • Coffee break & Poster session
3:15 pm • Selected short talk
3:30 pm • Christelle Retière, PhD – CRCI2NA, France – « NK Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia: Bridging Fundamental Biology and Clinical Innovation »
4:00 pm • Selected short talks
4:30 pm • Meeting conclusion – Frédéric Altare, PhD – INCIT, Nantes University, France
Sponsors
Contact organizer
Event coordinator : Valérie Pecqueret • valerie.pecqueret@univ-nantes.fr
How to reach venue ?
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Abstract submission
Submission deadline : 15/04/2024
Call for the submission of abstracts for oral or poster communications for the INCIT congress.
If you have attachments or documents, you can send your email directly to the following address:
valerie.pecqueret@univ-nantes.fr