Cancer Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation and Immunotherapy I

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, United States
• JW

  Jessica Winter

  Professor
  The Ohio State University, United States

Moderator(s)

• AB

  Alexander Buffone
• 

  Marian Ackun-Farmmer, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Researcher/Incoming Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland/Georgia Institute of Technology
  Hyattsville, Maryland, United States

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  Polymeric nanoparticles alleviate myeloid cell-induced immunosuppression and inhibit metastasis in a material-dependent manner
  

  Presenting Author: Jeffrey A. Ma, MS (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Kate V. Griffin – University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Kathryn Kang – University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Ravi M. Raghani – University of Michigan

  Primary Investigator: Lonnie D. Shea – University of Michigan
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  TLI-Ivatar: An In Vitro Model of the Tumor Microenvironment for High Throughput Immunotherapeutic Characterization
  

  Presenting Author: Kristen Shema, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  Co-Author: Colleen Foley (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  Co-Author: Rachel Weathered (she/her/hers) – UBS Asset Management

  Co-Author: Ruolan Zhou – University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

  Primary Investigator: Melody Swartz – University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  Discovery of oncolytic peptide CKS1 which induces immunogenic cancer cell death and suppresses tumor growth
  

  Presenting Author: Natsuki Furukawa, MS (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Wendy Yang – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Alex Chao – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Akash Patil – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Adam Mirando – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Niranjan Pandey – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Aleksander Popel – Johns Hopkins University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  Triggering Innate Immune Memory Significantly Increases Survival in a Checkpoint Inhibitor Resistant Tumor Model
  

  Presenting Author: Amy Laflin, M.S. (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Erica Wagner – Cornell University

  Primary Investigator: Shaoyi Jiang (he/him/his) – Cornell University
• 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Data-Driven approaches to cancer nanotechnology development
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers) – Carnegie Mellon University