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Full Schedule

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Full Schedule

  • Monday, June 19, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM  
    Systems Immunology Course (separate registration required)
  • 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM  
    Basic Immunology in Medicine Course (separate registration required)
  • Tuesday, June 20, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:30 AM – 12:00 PM  
    Big Data in Immunology Workshop
  • 7:30 AM – 5:45 PM  
    Cancer Immunity & Immunotherapy Course
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM  
    Member Society Symposia
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
    Member Society Symposia (virtual)
  • 11:45 AM – 2:00 PM  
    FOCIS Centers of Excellence (FCE) Fusion: Careers. Collaboration. Connection. (Invitation Only)
  • 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM  
    Member Society Symposia
  • 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM  
    Exhibit & Poster Opening Reception
  • Wednesday, June 21, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Coffee with the Exhibitors
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM  
    Keynote Address

    Speaker: Laurie H. Glimcher, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  • 8:45 AM – 9:35 AM  
    ImmunoOncology
    Chair: Vijay Kuchroo, PhD – Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute
  • 9:35 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Engineered CAR-cells in Oncology
    Chair: Jane Grogan, PhD – Graphite Bio
  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  
    Partner Program: Lupus Insight Prize Award Ceremony and Luncheon
  • 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM  
    Industrial Tutorial: Advances in Blood-based Profiling of Immune Response Biomarkers
    Speaker: Holden T. Maecker, PhD – Stanford University
    Speaker: Christopher Bunker, PhD, MBA – Alamar Biosciences
  • 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM  
    Partner Program -or- Industrial Tutorial
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM  
    NeuroImmunology
    Chair: Jane H. Buckner, MD – Benaroya Research Institute
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Precision Diagnostics for Immune Disorders
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Tolerance Therapeutics
    Chair: Gerald T. Nepom, MD PhD – Benaroya Research Institute / Immune Tolerance Network
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Coffee Break
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Flow Cytometry Course: Day 1
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Mechanisms of Autoimmunity
    Chair: Olivier Boyer, M.D., Ph.D. – Rouen Normandie University
  • 3:15 PM – 5:30 PM  
    ImmunoOncology and Cell Therapy
    Chair: Kavita Dhodapkar, M.D. – Emory University
  • 3:15 PM – 5:30 PM  
    Late-Breaking Abstracts
    Chair: Shachi Bhatt, PhD – Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM)
  • 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM  
    Keynote Address

    Speaker: Fiona Powrie, PhD – University of Oxford

  • 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM  
    Exhibit & Poster Reception
  • 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM  
    FOCIS Member Reception (FOCIS members only)
  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
    Registration Desk Open
  • 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM  
    Coffee with the Exhibitors
  • 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM  
    Exhibition & Poster Hall Open (authors optional)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM  
    Fibrosis and Wound Healing
    Chair: Jordan Pober, M.D., Ph.D. – Yale School of Medicine
  • 9:35 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Sequelae of Infectious Diseases

    Speaker: Carmen Scheibenbogen, MD – Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin

  • 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM  
    History of Women in FOCIS: Navigating Your Way into a Leadership Role
    Speaker: Maria-Grazia Roncarolo, MD – Stanford University
    Co-Chair: Elaine F. Reed, PhD – UCLA
    Co-Chair: Terri Laufer, MD – University of Pennsylvania
    Co-Chair: Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Disorders of Innate Immunity
    Chair: Silvia Gregori – San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), San Raffaele Scientific Institute
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Engineered Cell Therapy - Non-Oncology
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM  
    Microbiome/Mucosal Immunity
    Chair: Yvonne Rosenstein, Ph.D. – Instituto de Biotecnologia/ UNAM & MEXTIRG FCE
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM  
    Coffee Break
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    COVID and Infectious Diseases
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Flow Cytometry Course: Day 2
  • 3:15 PM – 5:15 PM  
    Immunogenetics
    Chair: Maria Grazia Roncarolo, M.D. – Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • 3:15 PM – 5:30 PM  
    Allergy and Autoantigens
    Chair: Deepak A. Rao, MD/PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • 5:30 PM – 5:40 PM  
    State of FOCIS Address
  • 5:40 PM – 6:25 PM  
    Keynote Address

    Speaker: Carl H. June, MD – Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

  • 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM  
    Exhibit & Poster Reception
  • Friday, June 23, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
    Registration Desk Open
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM  
    Adaptive/Autoimmunity
    Chair: Ivan Mascanfroni – Seismic Therapeutic
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM  
    Coffee Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Atopic Diseases: Allergy/Type 2/Helminth
    Chair: Joshua Milner – Columbia University
  • 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM  
    Keynote Address

    Speaker: Nir Hacohen, PhD – The Broad Institute

  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM  
    Industry Tutorial JEM
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM  
    Partner Program: Getting Your Application Off on the Right Foot: Receipt and Referral
  • 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Cutting Edge of Transplantation
    Chair: Fadi Issa, MA, BMBCh, MRCS, MSc, DPhil – University of Oxford
  • 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Disorders of Humoral Immunity
  • 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM  
    Immunity Across the Ages
    Chair: David Klatzmann, MD, PhD – Sorbonne Université
  • Tuesday, June 18, 2024
  • 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM  
    Crosstalk between stress and immunity