Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Malcolm Brenner, MD, PhD

Founding Director, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, USA

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Malcolm Brenner, MD, PhD

Founding Director, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, USA

Carl June, MD

Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy; Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine Director, Parker Institute Cancer Immunotherapy; University of Pennsylvania USA

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Carl June, MD

Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy; Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine Director, Parker Institute Cancer Immunotherapy; University of Pennsylvania USA

Stanley Riddell, MD

Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Professor, Department of Medicine at the University of Washington USA

Stanley Riddell, MD

Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Professor, Department of Medicine at the University of Washington USA

SPEAKERS

Hinrich Abken, MD, PhD

Chair, Genetic Immunotherapy, Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunotherpay, Germany

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Hinrich Abken, MD, PhD

Chair, Genetic Immunotherapy, Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunotherpay, Germany

Adi Barzel, PhD

President of the Israeli Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ISGCT), ICLE Conference Co-Chair, Senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Adi Barzel, PhD

President of the Israeli Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ISGCT), ICLE Conference Co-Chair, Senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Michal Besser, PhD

Head of Laboratory Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno Oncology Sheba Medical Center, Israel; Assistant Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

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Michal Besser, PhD

Head of Laboratory Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno Oncology Sheba Medical Center, Israel; Assistant Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Chiara Bonini, MD

Deputy Director, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases; Head, Experimental Haematology Unit; Full professor, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy

Chiara Bonini, MD

Deputy Director, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases; Head, Experimental Haematology Unit; Full professor, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy

Dirk Busch, MD

ICLE Conference Co-Chair; Director at the Institute for Med. Microbiology, Immunology and Hygene Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dirk Busch, MD

ICLE Conference Co-Chair; Director at the Institute for Med. Microbiology, Immunology and Hygene Technical University of Munich, Germany

Cyrille Cohen, PhD

Vice-Dean, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Head, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Cyrille Cohen, PhD

Vice-Dean, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences; Head, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Paolo Dellabona, MD, PhD

Head, Experimental Immunology Unit Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy

Paolo Dellabona, MD, PhD

Head, Experimental Immunology Unit Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy

Gianpietro Dotti, MD

Director, Immunotherapy Program, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA

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Gianpietro Dotti, MD

Director, Immunotherapy Program, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA

Tobias Feuchtinger, MD

Full Professor & Head Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hauner University Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

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Tobias Feuchtinger, MD

Full Professor & Head Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hauner University Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

Weidong Han, PhD, MD

Director of Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Director of Clinical Translational Ward, Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing, China

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Weidong Han, PhD, MD

Director of Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Director of Clinical Translational Ward, Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing, China

Michael Hudecek, MD

Chair Hudecek Lab, Hospital of the University of Würzburg, Germany

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Michael Hudecek, MD

Chair Hudecek Lab, Hospital of the University of Würzburg, Germany

Christopher Klebanoff, MD

Head, Breast Immunotherapy Section, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Christopher Klebanoff, MD

Head, Breast Immunotherapy Section, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Angela Krackhard, PhD, MD

Professor of Translational Immunotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Angela Krackhard, PhD, MD

Professor of Translational Immunotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Annette Künkele, MD

Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and SCT, Charité, Germany

Annette Künkele, MD

Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and SCT, Charité, Germany

Ann Leen, PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine; Member, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children's Hospital, USA

Ann Leen, PhD

Bilal Omer, MD

Co-Medical Director GMP; Assistant Professor, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Bilal Omer, MD

Co-Medical Director GMP; Assistant Professor, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Waseem Qasim, PhD

Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy, Institute of Child Helath, UCL; Consultant in Paediatric Immunology, Reader in Cell and Gene Therapy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Trust, UK

Waseem Qasim, PhD

Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy, Institute of Child Helath, UCL; Consultant in Paediatric Immunology, Reader in Cell and Gene Therapy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Trust, UK

Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Division of Cancer Medicine; Director of Translational Research, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation - Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD

Hans Stauss, MD, PhD

Director Institute of Immunity and Transplantation; Co-Director Division of Infection and Immunity University College London; Head Clinical Immunology Royal Free London, NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Hans Stauss, MD, PhD

Director Institute of Immunity and Transplantation; Co-Director Division of Infection and Immunity University College London; Head Clinical Immunology Royal Free London, NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Shigeki Yagyu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan

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Shigeki Yagyu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan

Jun Zhu, MD, PhD

Head, Peking University Cancer Hospital; Director, Department of Medical Oncology; Director, Lymphoma Department; Chairman of Chinese Lymphoma Investigator Union, China

Jun Zhu, MD, PhD

Head, Peking University Cancer Hospital; Director, Department of Medical Oncology; Director, Lymphoma Department; Chairman of Chinese Lymphoma Investigator Union, China