Programme
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15 July — 19 July 2024
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University of Hong Kong
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HK$3,000 (Includes accommodation)
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Apply by 30 April 2024
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Fully booked
Past
1st Day
Basic and translational immunology
14:30 — 15:30
Arrival and registration
15:30 — 15:40
Welcome speech (course director and co-directors)
15:40 — 16:40
Lecture 1 – Translational immunology: From bench to bedside
(Steven Holland – National Institute of Health, USA)
16:40 — 17:40
Lecture 2 – T-cell based immunotherapies in cancer
(Naoto Hirano - University of Toronto, Canada)
2nd Day
Cancer and therapeutic immunology
09:00 — 10:00
Lecture 3 – Immune signals in hematopoietic malignancy
(Jürgen Ruland – Technical University of Munich, Germany )
10:00 — 11:00
Lecture 4 - Clonal hematopoiesis: What is it? Why it matters? And what can we do about it?
(Steven Chan)
11:00 — 11:15
Tea break
11:15 — 12:25
Oral presentation
(4 selected registrants)
12:25 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:00
Lecture 5 – Myeloid cells and cancer
(Tracy McGaha – University of Toronto, Canada)
15:00 — 16:00
Tea break and poster viewing and discussion
16:00 — 17:00
Workshop 1
(Local OCs and invited speakers)
3rd Day
Translational and therapeutic immunology
09:00 — 10:00
Lecture 6 – mRNA based T-cell engineering for virus-related cancer and viral infection
(Antonio Bertoletti – Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore )
10:00 — 10:15
Tea break
10:15 — 11:15
Lecture 7 – IL-12 and IL-23: Examples of pro-inflammatory mediators with anti-inflammatory properties
(Burkhard Becher – University of Zurich, Switzerland)
11:15 — 12:25
Oral presentation
(4 selected registrants)
12:25 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:00
Lecture 8 – Dysregulated T-cell metabolism in autoimmunity
(Heidi Ling – University of Hong Kong, HK)
15:00 — 16:10
Tea break and poster viewing and discussion
16:10 — 17:10
Lecture 9 - Metabolic and neural regulation of immune responses and Cancer
(Tak Mak – University of Toronto, Canada)
4th Day
Autoimmunity and immunodeficiency
09:00 — 10:00
Lecture 10 – Recapitulating and repairing immunodeficiencies in the lab
(Philip Li – University of Hong Kong, HK)
10:00 — 10:15
Tea break
10:15 — 11:15
Lecture 11 – Acquired forms of immunodeficiencies
(Steven Holland – National Institute of Health, USA)
11:15 — 12:25
Oral presentation – 4 selected registrants
12:25 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:00
Lecture 12 – Inborn errors of immunity beyond the laboratory
(Yu Lung Lau – University of Hong Kong, HK)
15:00 — 16:10
Tea break and poster viewing and discussion
16:10 — 17:40
Workshop 2
(Local OCs and invited speakers)
5th Day
09:00 — 10:00
Lecture 13 – Fuelling our CARs for immunotherapy
(Ping Chih Ho – Ludwig Cancer Research, Switzerland)
10:00 — 10:15
Tea break
10:15 — 11:15
Lecture 14 - Dissecting tumour heterogeneity with single cell and spatial analyses
(Ruidong Xue – Peking University, China)
11:15 — 12:30
Lunch and dismiss
12:30 — 12:30
Outing visit (optional)
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