Cancer and Inflammation
Conference Program

October 9-10, 2007
Masur Auditorium, Blg 10
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Program Committee:

  • Giorgio Trinchieri, Chair
  • Joost Oppenheim
  • Scott Durum
  • Howard Young
  • Robert Wiltrout
  • Curt Harris
  • Stuart Yuspa
  • Snorri Thorgeirsson
  • Jay Berzofsky
  • Crystal Mackall
  • Dennis Klinman
 
October 9th, Morning Sessions

INTRODUCTIONS
8:30 Robert Wiltrout (Director, Center for Cancer Research, NCI)
8:40 John Niederhuber (Director, NCI)
8:50 Giorgio Trinchieri (Director, Cancer and Inflammation Program, CCR/NCI)
   
OPENING TALK (Chair G. Trinchieri)
9:00

Hans Schreiber, University of Chicago, IL
Cancer Cells, Stroma and CD8+ T Cells: Eradication, Equilibrium, or Escape

 
SESSION 1-INNATE RESISTANCE AND CANCER (Chair H. Young)
9:30

Douglas Golenbock, U. Massachusetts’ Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Mechanisms of Toll-like Receptor Activation and Function

9:55

David Segal, NCI
The Interaction of TLR3 with dsRNA

10:20

Dennis Klinman, NCI
Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides as Modulators of Inflammation

10:45 Coffee break
11:15

Mark Smyth, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Australia
Cancer Immune Surveillance: a Balancing Act

11:40

Lalage Wakefield, NCI
TGF-beta Subverts CD8+ cells into Directly Promoting Tumor Growth Through an IL-17 Mediated Mechanism

12:05

Masaki Terabe, NCI
Two Subsets of NKT cells Form a New Immunoregulatory Axis in Tumor Immunity

   

12:30-2:00  Lunch break

   

October 9th, Afternoon Sessions


SESSION 2-COLON AND PROSTATE CANCERS (Chair S. Durum)

2:00

Peter Murray, St. Jude Hospital, Memphis, TN
Arginine Metabolism in Chronic Inflammation

2:25

Andrew Dannenberg, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, New York, NY
Prostaglandins, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer: What is Nature Teaching Us?

2:50

Curtis Harris, NCI
Interactions of Cytokines, Free Radicals and MicroRNAs in Inflammation-Associated Cancer

3:15

Wolf Herve Fridman, INSERM U255 and Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
The In Situ Immune Reaction, a Major Player in Human Cancer

3:40 Coffee break
4:20

William Nelson, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Prostate Cancer Epigenetics and Inflammation

4:55

Arthur Hurwitz, NCI
Understanding T Cell Responses to Prostate Cancer in Mice

   

October 10, 2007, Morning Session


OPENING TALK (Chair R. Wiltrout)

8:30

Drew Pardoll, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Immune Mechanisms for Tumorigenesis by Chronic Infections

   

SESSION 3-SKIN CANCERS (Chair J. Oppenheim)

9:00

Margareta Mueller, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Inflammation, Angiogenesis and Tumor Invasion

9:25

Stuart Yuspa, NCI
Inflammatory Mediators of Cutaneous Carcinogenesis: Evidence for an Autocrine Mechanism of Action

9:50

Sam Hwang, NCI
Chemokine Receptors in Melanoma Resistance to Host Immunity

10:15

Francesco Marincola, NIH Clinical Center
Models for Transcriptional Profiling of Tumor Rejection in Humans

10:40 Coffee break
   

SESSION 4-CANCERS WITH AN INFECTIOUS PATHOGENESIS
(Chair C. Mackall)

11:10

Snorri Thorgeirsson, NCI
Inflammation and Pathogenesis of Liver Cancer

11:35

Xin Wei Wang, NCI
Inflammatory Architects of Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma

12:00

Douglas Lowy, NCI
HPV Vaccines and Other Interventions to Prevent HPV Infection and Cervical Cancer

12:25

Giovanna Tosato, NCI
A Role for Cytokines and Chemokines in KHSV-Associated Malignancies

   

12:50-2:10 Lunch Break

   

October 10, 2007, Afternoon Session


SESSION 5-THE INFLAMMATORY TUMOR MICRO-ENVIRONMENT (Chair J. Berzofsky)

2:10

Thomas Wynn, NIAID
Regulation of Chronic Inflammation and Fibrosis by IL-13, NOS2, and Arginase-1

2:35

Vincenzo Bronte, Padua University, Italy  
 Altered Macrophage Differentiation and Immune Dysfunction in Tumor Development

3:00

Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD
Inflammation, Immune Suppression and Tumor Progression

3:25 Coffee break
3:55

Hua Yu, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
Role of Stat3 in Cancer and Inflammation

4:20

Frances Balkwill, Institute of Cancer and Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, GB
The Inflammatory Cytokine TNF-alpha as a Target for Cancer Treatment

4:55

Daniel McVicar, NCI
Regulation of Inflammation by the TREM Gene Cluster