Immuno-oncology: How to get the immune system to beat cancer

Background

This Royal Society conference will bring together scientists from both industry and academia, investors, charities, regulators and other interested parties to discuss immuno-oncology therapies and explore routes to removing the barriers to their use.

The event will have a technology focus, introducing the current established on-market therapies and more recent technologies in development now and in the future. Experts will discuss the key barriers and pitfalls facing the use of new therapies, and lessons learned along the way before an open panel discussion on market drivers, investment into the sector and regulation required with new innovations. A closing keynote will give an outlook towards what could be possible within the next 10 – 20 years.

Website: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/03/tof-immuno-oncology/

Agenda

24 March

1pm – Keynotes

• Broad overview of scientific discoveries
• Overview of the industrial landscape

2pm – Cell Therapy

• Programming cells through genetic engineering
• Cell therapy as a treatment
• Manufacture and delivery of cell therapies

4pm – Recent immuno-oncology breakthroughs

• Genomics in cancer vaccines
• Progress in cancer vaccines
• Microbiome oncology
• Oncolytic viruses

25 March

1pm – Barriers and technical challenges

• Building stronger clinical models and biomarkers
• Computational pathology
• Combination therapy
• Challenges in assessing evidence prior to clinical phases

3pm – panel discussion on financing, cost and regulation

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