CCIR Distinguished Seminar Series
Invited Speakers for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013
- November 10, 2011: "Frontiers in Therapeutic Manipulation of the Tumor Microenvironment: the Case of the PD1 Pathway" Drew Pardoll, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- December 8, 2011: "Deconstructing Cancer Immunoediting" Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Washington University
- January 5, 2012: "Generating and Maintaining Memory CD8 T Cells" John Harty, Ph.D., University of Iowa
- February 15, 2012: "Taking T Cell Therapies to Phase 3 and Licensure" Cliona Rooney, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
- March 1, 2012: "Alternative Pathways for Memory CD8 T Cell Generation" Stephen Jameson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- April 5, 2012: "T Cell Traffic and Retention: Challenges and Opportunities for Immune Therapy of Melanoma" Craig Slingluff, M.D., University of Virginia
- May 3, 2012: "Targeting Foxp3+ Treg Cells to Promote Host Anti-tumor Immune Responses" Wayne Hancock, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- June 7, 2012: "Roles of TRAFs in the Regulation of B-cell Function and Malignancy" Gail Bishop, Ph.D., University of Iowa
- October 31, 2012: "Origins of CD4+ Memory T Cells" Marc Jenkins, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Medical School
- November 14, 2012: "Exosomes: Mediators and Biomarkers of Disease" Douglas Taylor, Ph.D., University of Louisville
- December 6, 2012: "Innate and Adaptive Immunity Regulated within the Tumor Microenvironment" Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago
- January 10, 2013: "Immunoregulation of Graft-versus-Host Disease" Bruce Blazer, M.D., University of Minnesota
Highlights
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2011 Dallas-Fort Worth Living Legends
Robert Coffman, Ph.D., of Dynavax Technologies
"Development of vaccine adjuvants and novel therapeutics for autoimmune disease by regulating toll-like receptor activity"
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2011 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Max Cooper, M.D., of Emory University School of Medicine
"Ancient antibodies against cancer cells"
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2011 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D., of Kyoto University School of Medicine
"Dilemma of AID: Infection or Cancer"
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2010 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Bob Beutler, M.D., of The Scripps Research Institute
"Sensing Infection"
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2008 Dallas/Ft. Worth Living Legends Professorship
Jacques Banchereau, Ph.D., of Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
"Taking dendritic cells into medicine"
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2008 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
K. Frank Austen, M.D., of Harvard Medical School
"Developmental biology and effector functions of mast cells"
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2007 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D., of Kyoto University
"Regulatory T cells in immunological self-tolerance"
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2006 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D., of New York University
"Transcriptional networks in the regulation of inflammatory cells"
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2005 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Lewis Lanier, Ph.D., of University of California - San Francisco
"NK receptors in innate immune responses"
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2004 R.E. "Bob" Smith Lecture
Hugh McDevitt, M.D., of Stanford University
"T cells and dendritic cells in the initiation of type 1 diabetes mellitus"
