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Associazione Il Fondo di Gio 
per la ricerca sui tumori cerebrali

(GIO's Fund, Association for Brain Tumor Research)
Marcia di Gio - 2007 - 21 Ottobre
Il volantino della corsa al Parco Sempione di Milano.
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BRAIN TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY
An International Symposium
FOM-IEO Campus, Milan, Italy


Preliminary Scientific Program
Friday October 19, 2007



MORNING SESSION

h 8.30/9.00 am - Registration

Chairmen: Renato Mantegazza, Stefaan van Gool

h 9.00/9.35 am
Are oncoantigens suitable targets for antitumor therapy?
Federica Cavallo

h 9.35/10.10 am
Bacteria as a tool to initiate systemic anti-tumor responses
Maria Rescigno

h 10.10/10.45 am
Inhiting Tregs activity in tumor bearers
Mario Colombo

h 10.45/11.00 am - Coffee Break

Chairmen: Filippo Belardelli, I. Jolanda M. de Vries

h 11.00/11.35 am
Innate immunity in the central nervous system
Francesca Aloisi

h 11.35/12.10 am
Surgery in the context of treatments for malignant gliomas
Paolo Ferroli

h 12.10/12.45 am
Cancer Stem Cells and the Biology of Malignant Gliomas
Gaetano Finocchiaro

h 12.45 am/1.30 pm - Lunch



AFTERNOON SESSION

Chairmen: Giovanni Broggi, Gaetano Finocchiaro

h 1.30/2.05 pm
Dendritic cell immunotherapy in cancer patients
I. Jolanda M. de Vries

h 2.05/2.40 pm
The EGRvIII clinical vaccine and regulatory T cells
John Sampson

h 2.40/3.15 pm
Generation of DC vaccines in glioma patients and interference of glioma cells with dendritic
cell-based immunity
Rudiger Sorg

h 3.15/3.50 pm
STAT-3 and its role in immunity
Amy Heimberger

h 3.50/4.10 pm - Coffee Break

Chairmen: Maura Massimino, Amerigo Boiardi

h 4.10/4.45 pm
New developments for DC immunotherapy: intra-tumoral injection of DC and targeting of
cancer stem like cells
Serena Pellegatta

h 4.45/5.20 pm
DC vaccination in malignant glioma: current status and (presumed) future directions
Steven De Vleeschouwer

h 5.20/5.40 pm
Final overview
Stefaan van Gool

End of the meeting



Official Website: http://www.semm.it/meeting/brain07/



 

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