Wednesday, 3rd September
Melbourne Immunotherapy Spring Symposium 2025
Days
Tuesday, 2nd September
Wednesday, 3rd September
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Registration
8:30AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
Merri-Creek 1-3
Session 4 - Infectious Disease
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 3rd September
The Chapel
Chairs: Hannah King & Rhea Longley
COVID: what else is to be discovered?
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Stephanie Gras
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Alters Infection Responses in Human Stem Cell Models
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Sahel Amoozadeh
Immunology for improved surveillance of Plasmodium vivax malaria
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Rhea Longley
Trained immunity as an approach to protect immunocompromised individuals against infection
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Boris Novakovic
Combination Immune Checkpoint Blockade in People with HIV – Analysis of antigen-specific CD8+ T-cells
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Hannah AD King
Immune profiling of chronic lung disease in children
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Melanie Neeland
Morning Tea
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Wednesday, 3rd September
Merri-Creek 1-3
Session 5 - Cancer Immunotherapy ||
11:30AM - 1:10PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
The Chapel
Chairs: Jane Oliaro & Riccardo Dolcetti
Leveraging T cell residency in tumours for enhanced cancer control
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Thomas Burn
A novel subset of splenic regulatory T cells limits immunity and mediates resistance to checkpoint blockade in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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Annika AP Poch
Exploiting the immune system with next-generation messenger RNA (mRNA)-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) immunotherapeutics
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Cassandra I Ouslinis
Pregnancy induced tissue-resident memory T cells protect against breast cancer
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Ajithkumar Vasanthakumar
Building the Bridge of Translation and Traversing it with Laboratory-informed Clinical Trials
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Robert Ramsay
Lunch
1:10PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
Merri-Creek 1-3
Session 6 - Chronic Inflammatory Disease / Autoimmunity
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
The Chapel
Chairs: Cyril Seillet & Terry Lim
Bridging Discovery and Translation: Unlocking Interleukin-22 for Liver and Pancreatic Disease
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Sumaira Hasnain
Fatty Acid Metabolism Controls Innate Immune Function and Gut Integrity
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Cyril Seillet
Hijacked Immunity: Tuft Cell-ILC2 Circuit as a Therapeutic Target in Gastric Cancer
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Michael Buchert
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
Merri-Creek 1-3
Session 6 - Chronic Inflammatory Disease / Autoimmunity (Continued)
4:00PM - 4:50PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
The Chapel
Chairs: Cyril Seillet & Terry Lim
Harnessing a new checkpoint to control auto-immunity in lupus patients
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Michael Gantier
Blood-based T Cell Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease
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Melinda Hardy
Prizes and Concluding Remarks
4:50PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd September
The Chapel
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