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Speakers

Keynote

The Versatile Macrophage: Receptors and Inflammation
Siamon Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Cellular Pathology, University of Oxford
Visiting Scientist at the NIH

Symposium Titles & Co-Chairs

  1. Tissue Crosstalk in Inflammation and Metabolism: Adipokines and Myokines

    Co-chairs: Steven Simpson, Ph.D. (GSK) & Ken Walsh, Ph.D., (Boston Univ)

    Speaker 1: Gokhan Hotamisligil, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard)
    Reciprocity of Metabolism and Inflammation

    Speaker 2: Ken Walsh, Ph.D. (Boston Univ)
    Adipokines, Myokines and Metabolic Disease

    Speaker 3: Bente Pederson, M.D. (Univ of Copenhagen)

    Skeletal Muscle as an Endocrine Organ: The Rold of Myokines in Muscle-Fat Cross-Talk

    Speaker 4: Jennifer Lachey, Ph.D. (Acceleron Pharma)
    Treatment with a Soluble Activin Receptor Type IIB Attenuates Diet-Induced Obesity in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice
     

  2. ADVANCES in Translational Medicine as it Applies to Inflammatory Diseases

    Co-Chairs: Lisa Schopf, Ph.D. (Abbott) & Bill Selig, Ph.D.

    Speaker 1: Jeff Voss, Ph.D. (Abbott)
    Translation of Pre-Clinical Models to the Human Autoimmune Diseases

    Speaker 2: Bitao Liang, Ph.D. (Celgene)
    Immune Modulatory Properties of Human Placenta-Derived Stem Cells

    Speaker 3: Christine Ward, Ph.D. (MedImmune)
    Translational Strategies to Facilitate Inflammatory Drug Development

    Speaker 4: William Westlin, Ph.D. (Avila Therapeutics)
    Translational Pharmacology of AVL-292, A Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase
     

  3. Molecular and Cellular Crosstalk in Inflammation Network: the Role of Macrophages and Dendritic Cells

    Co-Chairs: Annalisa D'Andrea, Ph.D. (SRI Int Biosciences) & Liwu Li, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech)

    Speaker 1: Giorgio Trinchieri, M.D. (NCI)
    Innate Resistance, Inflammation and Cancer

    Speaker 2: Dan Cua, Ph.D. (Merck)
    C-type Lectin Activation of an Alternative Macrophage Population

    Speaker 3: Carla Rothlin, Ph.D. (Yale)
    TAMing Inflammation In Vivo

    Speaker 4: Kate Fitzgerald, Ph.D. (U Mass)
    AIM2 Inflammasomes in Anti-Microbial Defenses.
     
  4. Lupus: From Basic Mechanisms to the Clinic

    Co-Chairs: Laura Carter, Ph.D. (Array BioPharma) & Joan Merrill, M.D. (Oklahoma Medical Res Found)

    Speaker 1: Laura Carter, Ph.D. (Array BioPharma)
    Introduction to Lupus

    Speaker 2: Gregg Silverman, M.D. (UCSD)
    Roles of B Cells in Lupus Pathogenesis

    Speaker 3: Franck Barrat, Ph.D. (Dynavax)
    Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Activation Hampers Glucocorticoids Anti-Inflammatory Activity in SLE

    Speaker 4: Joan Merrill, M.D. (Oklahoma Medical Res Found)
    Overview of Lupus Clinical Development Programs
     
  5. Novel Therapeutics

    Co-Chairs: Bruce Tomczuk, Ph.D. (Arginetix) & Spencer Danto, M.D., Ph.D. (Pfizer)

    Speaker 1: To Be Named

    Speaker 2: To Be Named

    Speaker 3: To Be Named

Mini Symposia (not finalized)

  1. Innate Immune Responses
    Co-Chairs: Laurent Audoly, Ph.D. (Merck) & Bassil Dahiyat, Ph.D. (Xencor)
    Invited Speaker: Basil Dahiyat, Ph.D. (Xencor)
    Tuning Effector Cell Responses to MAb Therapies via Fc Engineering: Clinical and Pre-Clinical Experiences

    Plus 5 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
     
  2. Adaptive Immune Responses
    (Co-Chairs: to be named)
    1 invited speaker (co-chair) + 4-5 selected abstracts

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