Programme

Course info Speaker bios
  • 15 July — 19 July, 2024

  • University of Hong Kong

  • HK$3,000 (Includes accommodation)

  • Apply by 30 April, 2024

1st Day
14:00 — 15:50
Arrival and registration
15:50 — 16:00
Welcome speech (Course director and co-directors)
16:00 — 17:30
Lecture 1 – Development and orchestration of the immune system

(Professor Tak W Mak – University of Toronto, Canada)

17:30 — 19:00
Lecture 2 – Translational immunology: from bench to bedside
(Dr Steven M Holland – National Institute of Health, USA)
19:30 — 21:30
Social dinner
(All speakers and participants)
2nd Day
09:00 — 10:00
Lecture 3 – IL-12 and IL-23: examples of pro-inflammatory mediators with anti-inflammatory properties

(Professor Burkhard Becher – University of Zurich, Switzerland)

10:00 — 11:00
Lecture 4 - Immune Signals in Hematopoietic Malignancy

(Professor Jürgen Ruland – Technical University of Munich, Germany)

11:00 — 11:15
Tea break
11:15 — 12:45
Lecture 5 – T-cell based immunotherapies in cancers

(Professor Naoto Hirano – University of Toronto, Canada)

12:45 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:10
Oral presentation (4 selected registrants)
15:10 — 16:30
Tea break and poster viewing and discussion
16:30 — 17:15
Lecture 6 - Myeloid Cells and Cancer

(Professor Tracy McGaha – University of Toronto, Canada)

17:15 — 18:15
Workshop / tutorials (Local OCs and invited speakers)
3rd Day
09:00 — 10:30
Lecture 7 – Co-option of tumor and immune microenvironment at single cell resolution

(Dr Ruidong Xue – Peking University, China)

10:30 — 10:45
Tea break
10:45 — 12:15
Lecture 8 – mRNA based T cell engineering for virus-related cancer and viral infection

(Professor Antonio Bertoletti – Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore)

12:15 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:40
Oral presentation – 4 selected registrants
14:40 — 16:00
Tea break and poster viewing and discussion
16:00 — 17:30
Lecture 9 – Fueling our CARs for immunotherapy

(Professor Ping-Chih Ho – Ludwig Cancer Research, Switzerland)

17:30 — 18:30
Workshop / tutorials – Local OCs and invited speakers
4th Day
09:00 — 10:30
Lecture 10 – Recapitulating & repairing immunodeficiencies in the lab

(Professor Philip H Li – University of Hong Kong, HK)

10:30 — 10:45
Tea break
10:45 — 12:15
Lecture 11 – Acquired forms of immunodeficiencies

(Dr Steven M Holland – National Institute of Health, USA)

12:15 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:10
Oral presentation – 4 selected registrants
15:10 — 16:30
Tea break and poster viewing and discussion
16:30 — 17:30
Lecture 12 – Dysregulated T cell metabolism in autoimmunity

(Professor Heidi Ling – University of Hong Kong, HK)

17:30 — 19:00
Lecture 13 – Translational immunology of systemic lupus erythematosus

(Professor Chak-Sing Lau – University of Hong Kong, HK)

5th Day
09:00 — 11:30
Dialogue between basic & clinical immunology

(Professor Philip H Li – University of Hong Kong, HK)

11:30 — 11:45
Tea break
11:45 — 12:30
Future Directions of Translational Immunology in 2024

(Professor Tak W Mak – University of Toronto, Canada)

12:30 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 14:30
Outing visit: Hong Kong Global Geopark in Northeast New Territories

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