Cancer Center Amsterdam

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Hematology Grand Rounds: “Driving CAR T cells to improve outcomes”

📅 Date:Tuesday, September 30
🕐 Time:13:00 – 17:00
🍷 Followed by drinks
📍Zaal 't IJ, RDC Adore, Van der Boechorststraat 6B, 1081 BT Amsterdam

We are honored to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. Matthew Frank, Associate Professor, Department of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Stanford University.

This symposium will feature a dynamic program of national and international experts presenting the latest innovations, insights, and future directions in CAR T cell therapy. The full program is included below.

We warmly encourage you to attend, and join us for refreshments afterwards.

Program:

• 13:00 - 13:15 Welcome and Introduction,Anne Marijn Kramer,MD PhD
• 13:15 - 13:45 Pioneering Cellular Therapy: The Dutch CAR T Journey and Future Horizons , Prof. dr. Marie Jose Kersten          
• 13:45 - 14:10 Engineering Next-Generation CARs: CTLA-4-Based Activation Inducible Costimulatory Receptors , Afroditi Katsarou, PhD candidate
• 14:10 - 14:35 Beyond Clinical Metrics: Capturing the Patient Experience in CAR T Therapy, Anne Spanjaart, MD
• 14:35 - 15:05 Keynote lecture, Matthew Frank, MD PhD, Associate professor Department of Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy , Stanford University
• 15:05 - 15:25 Break
• 15:25 - 15:50Emerging toxicities: IEC-HS , Anne Marijn Kramer , MD PhD
• 15:50 -16:15 Metabolic Signatures in CLL: Unraveling Pathways to Enhanced CAR TEfficacy, Helga Simon Molas, PhD
• 16:15 - 16:40 iPSC-Derived CAR T Cells -The Next Therapeutic Paradigm, Maria Themeli , MD PhD, Assistant professor Cancer Center Amsterdam
• 16:40 - 17:05 Beyond the B /Plasma cell: Emerging targets in AML, Prof. dr. Mette Hazenberg
• 17:05- 17:30 Revolutionary Delivery:The Pack-IT System for In Vivo Lentiviral CAR Engineering, Kylie Burdsall, MD/PhD Candidate Stanford
• 17:30 - 17:55 Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Predict and Optimize CAR T Therapy Outcomes, Zina Good, Assistant professor Stanford
• 17:55 Closing remarks                                         
• 18:00 Drinks