WMIC 2018 Imaging in Cell and Immune Therapy – Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology Workshop
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
09:00 – 15:00
Room 603
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA
*Sponsored by Fluidigm and Bruker
Program Schedule
09:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Introduction
Moritz Kircher, MD, PhD & Vladimir Ponomarev, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering
09:05 – 10:30 Session 1 – Cell Tracking
Moderated by Moritz Kircher, MD, PhD & Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, PhD
09:05 – 09:25 Speaker 1: Eric Ahrens, PhD
Topic: Fluorine-19 immuno-MRI
09:25 – 09:45 Speaker 2: Noriko Sato, MD
Topic: Positron emission tomography imaging of cell-based therapies
09:45 – 10:05 Speaker 3: Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, PhD
Topic: Cell Labeling with Nanoparticles – Translational Applications
10:05 – 10:25 Speaker 4: Erik Aarntzen, PhD
Topic: In vivo imaging to optimize immune therapy
10:25 – 10:30 Discussion
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2 – Endogenous Immunity and Microenvironment
Moderated by Vladimir Ponomarev, MD, PhD & Sridhar Nimmagadda, PhD
11:00 – 11:15 Speaker 1: Anna Wu, PhD
Topic: Engineered antibodies and immunoPET detection of immune cell subsets
11:15 – 11:30 Speaker 2: Neeta Pandit-Taskar, MD
Topic: ImmunoPET imaging with anti-CD8 minibody
11:30 – 11:45 Speaker 3: Jelena Levi, PhD
Topic: Evaluating immunological response using T-cell specific PET imaging agent, [18F]F-AraG, in preclinical models and in clinical trials
11:45 – 12:05 Speaker 4: Miles Miller, PhD
Topic: Imaging tumor associated macrophages to predict nanotherapeutic action
12:05 – 12:25 Speaker 5: Sridhar Nimmagadda, PhD
Topic: Imaging approaches to quantify tumor-host immune system interactions
12:25 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3 – Theranostics
Moderated by Moritz Kircher, MD, PhD & Shawn Chen, PhD
13:30 – 13:50 Speaker 1: Sean Arlauckas, PhD
Topic: Single cell approaches to study monoclonal antibody pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
13:50 – 14:10 Speaker 2: Shawn Chen, PhD
Topic: Cancer Nanovaccine
14:10 – 14:30 Speaker 3: Efstathios (Stathis) Karathanasis, PhD
Topic: Cancer nanotechnology and the quest for the ultimate drug smuggler
14:30 – 14:50 Speaker 4: Gilbert Fruhwirth, PhD
Topic: In vivo tracking of cell-based immunotherapies: why do we need it and how can we achieve it?
14:50 – 15:00 Discussion
Please contact Andrea Diaz for more information.
