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702.O2.6 702. Experimental Transplantation: Immune Function, GVHD, and Graft-versus-Tumor Effects: Novel Approaches to Dampen GVHD

Experimental Transplantation: Immune Function, GVHD and Graft-versus-Tumor Effects Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Saturday, December 5, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
W414AB, Level 4 (Orange County Convention Center)
Moderators:
Tomomi Toubai, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Xuefang Cao, MD, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Disclosures:
No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
4:00 PM

Jonathan C. Poe, PhD1*, Wei Jia, MD1*, Zhiguo Li, PhD1*, Frances T. Hakim, PhD2*, Steven Z. Pavletic, MD2, Jeremy J. Rose, BA2*, David A. Rizzieri, MD1, Yiping Yang, MD, PhD1, Benny J. Chen, MD1, Michael Green, MD1*, Sarah Anand, MD1, Christian W. Siebel, PhD3*, Ivan Maillard, MD, PhD4, Nelson J. Chao, MD1 and Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD, PhD1

1Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Hematological Malignancies & Cellular Therapy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
2Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
3Dept. of Molecular Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
4Life Sciences Institute, Center for Stem Cell Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

4:15 PM

Natalie Stickel, MSc1,2,3*, Kathrin Hanke, MSc1*, Martin Köhler, MSc2,3,4*, Gabriele Prinz1*, Dietmar Pfeifer5*, Annette Schmitt-Graeff, MD6*, Tilman Brummer, PhD7*, Juergen Finke, MD1, Justus Duyster, MD, PhD1*, Ulrich Salzer, MD8,9* and Robert Zeiser, MD5

1Department of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Freiburg University Medical Center, Albert Ludwigs University (ALU) Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
2Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine, ALU Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
3Faculty of Biology, ALU Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
4Signal Transduction in Tumour Development and Drug Resistance Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research (IMMZ), ALU Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
5Department of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
6Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Freiburg, ALU Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
7BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
8Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Freiburg University Medical Center, ALU Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
9Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Freiburg University Medical Center, ALU Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

4:30 PM

Asim Saha, PhD1*, Roddy S. O'Connor, PhD2*, Govindarajan Thangavelu, PhD1*, Scott B. Lovitch, MD, PhD3, Durga Bhavani Dandamudi4*, Caleph B. Wilson, PhD5*, Benjamin G. Vincent, MD6, Kazutoshi Aoyama7*, Patricia A. Taylor, DVM8, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, PhD9, Rocio Foncea, PhD10*, Joel S. Burrill10*, Lili Guo11*, Catarina Sacristan, PhD4*, Scott N. Furlan, MD12*, Nathaniel W. Snyder, PhD MPH11,13*, Ian A. Blair, PhD11*, Michael C. Milone, MD, PhD14*, Michael L. Dustin, PhD15*, James L. Riley, PhD16*, David A. Bernlohr, PhD10*, Laurence A. Turka, MD17*, William J. Murphy, PhD18, Brian T. Fife, PhD19*, David H. Munn, MD20*, Jeffrey S. Miller, MD21, Jonathan S. Serody, MD22, Leslie Kean, MD, PhD23, Gordon J. Freeman, PhD24*, Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD25* and Bruce R. Blazar, MD8

1Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
3Brigham and Women's Hosputal, Boston, MA
4Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
5Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
6UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
7Department of Hematology, Chugoku Central Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
8Division of Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN
9Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
10Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
11Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
12Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA
13Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
14Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
15Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
16Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
17University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
18Department of Dermatology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
19Department of Medicine and Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
20Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
21Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
22Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
23Pediatric BMT, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
24Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
25Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

4:45 PM

Tomomi Toubai, MD, PhD1, Corinne Rossi, MD1*, Hiroya Tamaki, MD, PhD2*, Nathan Mathewson, PhD1, Katherine Oravecz-Wilson, MS1*, Cynthia Zajac, BS1*, Chen Liu, MD, PhD3*, Stuart Brabbs1*, Yaping Sun, MD, PhD1, Grace Chen, MD, PhD4* and Pavan Reddy, MD1

1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
3Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
4Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

5:00 PM

Katherine Oravecz-Wilson, MS1*, Corinne Rossi, MD1*, Chen Liu, MD, PhD2*, Tomomi Toubai, MD, PhD1, Hiroya Tamaki, MD, PhD3*, Cynthia Zajac, BS1*, Stuart Brabbs1*, Nathan Mathewson, PhD1, Julia Wu, BS4*, Yaping Sun, MD, PhD1 and Pavan Reddy, MD1

1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
3Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
4Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

5:15 PM

Ludovic Belle, PhD1*, Kimberle A. Agle, PhD1*, Vivian Zhou, PhD1*, Vanessa Yuan, MS1*, Jie Sun, PhD2*, Nico Ghilardi, PhD3*, Jacques van Snick, PhD4* and William R. Drobyski, MD1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
3Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA
4Ludwig Cancer Institute, Brussels, Belgium

*signifies non-member of ASH