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INCIT congress 24

Incit congress 24

Immunology and New Concepts in ImmunoTherapy

This second 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

Faculté de pharmarcie à Nantes (9 rue Bias – 44000, FR) Salle : amphithéâtre

Dates & Timetables

Thursday June 13th, 2024 @ 12:00
Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 17:00

Prices

Early bird registration (until April  30 2024)

90 € for students
170 € for researchers

Registration fee (after May 1st 2024)

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 April 2024 !

Abstract submission

Invited speakers

Program – FLYER INCIT 24

Thursday, June 13th, 2024

 

Noon • Welcome lunch

1:00 pm • Meeting introduction / INCIT Overview – Frédéric Altare, PhD – INCIT, Nantes University, France

1:30 pm • KeynoteDan Littman, MD/PhD – New York University, New York, NY, USA – « Towards a logic for microbiota-directed immune system programming »

Session # 1 – New targets & strategies for cell therapies (Chairwomen : Sophie Lucas & Emmanuelle Godefroy)

2:30 pm • Else Marit Inderberg, PhD – Oslo University Hospital, Norway – « TCR- and CAR-modified T cells for solid cancer treatment »

3:00 pm • Selected short talk

3:15 pm • Coffee break & Poster session

3:45 pm • Sebastian Amigorena, PhD – Curie Institute, France – « Epigenetic control of anti-tumor immune responses »

4:15 pm • Selected short talk

4:30 pm • Catherine Rabu, PharmD/PhD –  INCIT, Nantes University, France – « Antigen identification for melanoma immunotherapy: peptides derived from long non-coding RNA »

5:00 pm • Selected short talks

5:30 pm • Sponsors’ symposium

7:00 pm • Cocktail

 

Friday June 14th 2024

Session # 2  Immuno-modulation / Immuno-inflammation (Chairmen : Dan Littman & Frédéric Altare)

9:00 am • Gérard Eberl, PhD – Pasteur Institute, Paris France – « Regulation of hypothalamic functions by microbiota and the immune system »

9:30 am • Selected short talk

9:45 am • Julie Magarian Blander, PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine – Cornell University, New York, NY, USA – « Harnessing Innate Immunity and Inflammasome Activation in Vaccines and Cancer Therapy »

10:15 am • Coffee break & Poster session

10:45 am • Emmanuelle Godefroy, PhD – INCIT, Nantes University, France – « Human Microbiota-Reactive DP8a Regulatory T Cells In Health and Gut-related Disorders »

11:15 am • Selected short talks

Noon • Lunch

Session # 3 Therapeutic targeting (Chairwomen : Julie Magarian Blander & Catherine Rabu)

1:30 pm • Ferry Ossendorp, PhD – Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands – « Self-adjuvanted peptide cancer vaccines »

2:00 pm • Najma Rachidi, PhD – Pasteur Institute, Paris, France – « Exploring the roles of secreted Leishmania Casein Kinase 1 in macrophage subversion for the development of innovative therapeutic approaches against leishmaniasis »

2:30 pm • Selected short talk

2.45 pm • Coffee break & Poster session

3:15 pm • Selected short talk

3:30 pm • Blandine Monel, PhD – INCIT, Nantes University, France – « Novel approaches in CD8+ T cell-based immune therapies for HIV cure »

4:00 pm • Sophie Lucas, MD/PhD – De Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium – « Harnessing the pleiotropy of TGF-ß cytokines to treat diseases associated with immune dysfunction »

4:30 pm • Meeting conclusion – Frédéric Altare, PhD – INCIT, Nantes University, France

Sponsors

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Contact organizer

Event coordinator : Valérie Pecqueret • valerie.pecqueret@univ-nantes.fr

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