2024 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium

2024 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium
CAR-T Cells and the Transformation of Blood Cancer Treatments

The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to this annual scientific symposium, which will recognize four scientists whose discoveries led to the creation of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, a type of treatment that modifies patients’ immune cells and optimizes their ability to eliminate cancer cells.

IN HONOR OF:
Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD, Katherine Anne Gioia Endowed Chair in Cancer Medicine and Deputy Director at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Zelig Eshhar, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Weizmann Institute of Science and Chair of Immunology in the Division of Research and Development at Sourasky Medical Center

Carl June, MD, Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy at the 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 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

ALSO PRESENTING:
Alexander Marson, MD, PhD, Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology at University of California, San Francisco
Christine Brown, PhD, Heritage Provider Network Professor in Immunotherapy and Deputy Director, T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory at City of Hope

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