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Cancers Webinar | Mechanisms of Immunotherapy in Cancers

Name: Cancers Webinar | Mechanisms of Immunotherapy in Cancers
Start: 2022-04-11T16:00:00
End: 2022-04-11T18:00:00

11 April 2022

16:00 (CEST)

Online

Welcome from
the chair

7^th Cancers Webinar

Mechanisms of Immunotherapy in Cancers

Due to the on-going health and economic situation across the globe, and the associated uncertainties regarding health and safety, transportation, catering, and access issues, MDPI is offering the possibility of organizing webinars, alongside our other conferences.

With the support of MDPI’s journal Cancers, a webinar on "Mechanism of Immunotherapy" will be held, moving from the high quality reports, recently published in Cancers Special Issue, entitled "Mechanism of Immunotherapy”. The webinar aims at allowing scientists, who participated to the collection and received a very high feedback, to present their latest research and discuss further issues with their peers.

The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session where speakers will be able to answer the attendees’ questions. The webinar will be recorded and uploaded to Sciforum.

I am looking forward to meeting you up.

Antonio Curti

Date: 11 April 2022

Time: 4:00pm CEST | 10:00am EDT | 10:00pm CST Asia

Webinar ID: 863 7313 6203

Webinar Secretariat: cancers.webinar@mdpi.com

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Dr. Antonio Curti

IRCCS Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria di Bologna, Seràgnoli Hematology Unit, Italy;
Education and Training 1997 - MD degree at the University of Bologna, School of Medicine 1998-2000 - Fellow in Experimental and Clinical Hematology at the University of Bologna, School of Medicine 2002 - PhD in Clinical and Experimental Hematology 1998 - Visiting Investigator at the Department of Dermatology, Immunotherapy Unit, Erlangen (Germany) 2000-2002 Research Fellow at the Department of Experimental Oncology, Gene, Therapy and Immunotherapy Unit, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy 2003 - Visiting Investigator at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University,Division of Immunology and Hematopoiesis, Baltimore (USA) Research activity • Acute myeloid leukemia and mylodysplastic syndromes • Basic immunology focusing on tumor escape mechanisms in leukemia, involving leukemia microenvironment: the role of indoleamine 2,3- dioxygenase and tryptophan metabolism • Adoptive immunotherapy with alloreactive NK cells in acute myeloid leukemia patients Positions From 2006 – Attending Physician at the Institute of Hematology “L.&A. Seràgnoli”, University of Bologna, Italy. From 2013 - Group Leader Cell Therapy Unit at Bologna Institute of Hematology From 2018 – Group Leader, Acute Leukemia and Mylodysplastic Syndromes Program at Bologna Institute of Hematology

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Webinar Content

On Monday 11 April 2022, MDPI and the Journal Cancers organized their 8th webinar entitled "Mechanisms of Immunotherapy in Cancers".

The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Dr. Antonia Curti from IRCCS Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria di Bologna, Seràgnoli Hematology Unit, Italy.

The first speaker to kick off this webinar was Dr. Esther Barreiro from Pulmonology Department-Muscle Wasting and Cachexia in Chronic Respiratory Diseases and Lung Cancer Research Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratoria (CIBERES), and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Barcelona, Spain. Her talk was entitled “Elucidating the Immune Microenvironment for Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer: Animal and Human Studies”. Her lines of research are linked to the study of molecular mechanisms involved in cancer cachexia and muscle wasting in chronic conditions, as well as lung cancer predisposition in patients with underlying respiratory conditions using animal, cell, and human models. Moreover, she is also in seeking of therapeutic targets for the improvement of muscle mass loss and cachexia associated with chronic respiratory conditions.

The second presentation with the title "The Immune Phenotype of Isolated Lymphoid Structures in Non-Tumorous Colon Mucosa Encrypts the Information on Pathobiology of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer" was held by Dr. Diana Mechtcheriakova from the Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Her current scientific interests/main research areas are systems biology and systems medicine as part of the global concept of personalized medicine, B-cell biology, and immuno-oncology. Special interests refer to the AID/APOBEC-associated biological events; architectural complexity and functionality of ectopic lymphoid structures, producing memory B cells and plasma cells; developing of integrative systems biology-based algorithms in a process of discovery of novel disease-/immune-associated checkpoints and patients’ stratification strategies; and the cellular sphingolipid/lysophosphatidate system in immunity and cancer.

The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Cancers, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.

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This webinar is part of the Cancers Topical Collection "Mechanism of Immunotherapy in Cancers". To find out more about this topical collection and to submit to it, please click here.