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October 10

Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium

Location
Longwood Campus

Time

2:00 pm 5:30 pm

Event Type

CAR-T Cells and the Transformation of Blood Cancer Treatments
Honoring Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD, Zelig Eshhar, PhD, Carl June, MD, Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD

Opening Remarks
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University
Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine

Marcela Maus, MD, PhD
Paula O’Keefe Endowed Chair
Director, Cellular Immunotherapy Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Award Lectures
Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD
Katherine Anne Gioia Endowed Chair of Medicine and Deputy Director
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Carl June, MD
Richard W. Vague Professor in lmmunotherapy
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD
Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair and Founding Director of the Center for Cell Engineering Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Invited Speakers
Alexander Marson, MD, PhD
Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology and Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Christine Brown, PhD
Heritage Provider Network Professor in Immunotherapy
Deputy Director, T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory
City of Hope