UCLA-Kyoto University-Academia Sinica, Pan Pacific Meeting (Day -1)

Topic – Tumor Immunology

30 Years’ Journey of My PD-1 Cancer Immunotherapy

Tasuku Honjo, PhD (Keynote Lecture)

Nobel Laureate in Physiology of Medicine 2018; Professor, Institute of

Advanced Study; and Director, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and

Immunobiology, Kyoto University

Cancer Therapy: Target, Modality, and Timing

Owen Witter, MD (Keynote Lecture)

Professor and President’s Chair, Developmental Immunology;

and Founding Director Emeritus, Broad Stem Cell Research Center,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Deriving Universal iPSC-Derived CAR-T Cells Through CRISPR/Cas 9

Engineering

Gay Crooks, MBBS

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

iPS Cell-Based Thymus Regeneration: A New Option for Enhancing

Tumor Immunity in Older Adults

Yoko Hamazaki, PhD

Professor, iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University

Post-Translational Modifications in Germinal Center Function and

Plasma Cell Differentiation

Kuo-I Lin, PhD

Professor, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica

Mitochondrial Regulation in T Cells Improves PD-1 Blockade Cancer Immunotherapy

Kenji Chamoto, PhD

Professor, Immuno-Oncology PDT, Kyoto University,

Graduate School of Medicine

Engineering a Potent T Cell Response Against Solid Tumors

Christina Puig-Saus, PhD

Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Induction of Antigen-Specific T Cells from iPSCs for T Cell-Based Immunotherapy

Shin Kaneko, MD, PhD

Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),

Kyoto University

Beyond Neurons: Siglecs and the Immunological Landscape of Huntington’s

Yijuang Chern, PhD

Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica

Small Molecules that Potentiate Antitumor Immunity

Motonari Uesugi, PhD

Professor, Director & Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material

Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University

Chemical Probes to Target and Image Hypoxia

Stuart Conway, PhD

Professor, Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery,

UCLA College of Letters & Sciences

Chemical Control of RNA Splicing

Masatoshi Hagiwara, MD, PhD

Professor, Drug Discovery Medicine, Kyoto University      – and –

Baron Cluster Building Blocks

Alexander Spokoyny, PhD

Professor & Chair, Chemistry & Biochemistry,

UCLA College of Letters & Sciences

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CNSI Auditorium