Emerging Cellular Therapies

Emerging Cellular Therapies is a conference dedicated to the integration of emerging technologies and immunobiology to advance the genetic engineering of immune cells for the treatment of cancer and other pathologies.

Topics

• Elucidating mechanisms of resistance to cell-based immunotherapies, including the roles of T cell differentiation, signaling and costimultory pathways and epigenetic profiles
• Strategies to identify novel immune targets, enhance the function of synthetic and natural receptors for antigen, and genetically engineer and edit T cells and their precursors
• The emergence of novel, alternative engineered cell types, including natural killer cells and pluripotent stem cell-derived immune cells, and their potential to overcome current barriers to immunotherapy
• The mechanisms that lead to antigen escape in the context of the tumor microenvironment
• The fundamental mechanisms that determine the success of cell-based