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
If you wish to RSVP now, you can do so here
LOCATION:Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20241010T180000Z DTEND:20241010T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR