8th International Symposium
on CAR T Cells (CAR T Day)

October 17-18, 2024

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Thursday October 17th, 2024

08:00 – Welcome and registration

08:45 – Introduction

Caroline Dreuillet, clinical research director – INCa
Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha and Suman Mitra


Basic science

Chairs: Suman MITRA (Lille, France) & Laurie Manger (Paris, France)

09:00 – Overcoming resistance to CAR-T cell therapy

Marco Ruella (Philadelphia, USA)

09:20 – Single cell technology to decipher Cancer immunity

Wenfei Jin (Shanghai, China)

09:40 – CAR-T cellular therapy for solid tumor

Rosa Nguyen (Washington DC, USA)

10:00 – Immunotherapy and tumor microenvironment

Nikhil Joshi (Yale, USA) (New Haven, USA)

10:20 – The basics of TCR signaling and its implication in cellular therapy

Wan-Lin Lo (Utah, USA)


10:40 – Coffee break


Session of the Worldwide network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT)

Chair(s): Christian Chabannon (Marseille, France) & Mahmoud Aljurf (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

11:00 – CAR-T and Other Gene Therapies: Perspectives on Worldwide Access, Affordability and Clinical Indications

Mickey Koh (London, UK)

11:20 – CAR T-cell and Advanced Cellular Therapies, Challenges and Opportunities

in Emerging Economies

Syed Osman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

11:40 – How can the WBMT help in establishing CAR-T cell therapy in developing countries

Dietger Niederwiese (Leipzig, Germany)


12:00 – Coffee break


12:30 – 13:15

Keynote lecture: TBC

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Ugur Sahin (Mainz, Germany) TBC


13:15 – Lunch break


Symposium NOVARTIS

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Symposium Industrial II

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16:00 – Coffee break


Joint session LYSA, IFM, GRAALL & SFCE

Chair(s): Franck Morschhauser (Lille, France) & name of chair(s) (City, Country)

16:00 – CAR T-cell therapy in elder patients: is there an age limit?

Mohamad Karfan Dabaja (city, USA)

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18:00 – Closing remarks

20:00 – Gala dinner

Friday October 18th, 2024

08:30 – Welcome and registration


UNITC consortium session

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09:00 – Single cell technology to guide T-cell engineering

Sebastian Kobold (Munich, Germany)

09:20 – Title TBC

Casucci Monica (Milan, Italy) TBC

09:40 – Title TBC

Denis Migliorini (Lausanne, Switzerland)

10:00 – Beyond CAR-T: Harnessing the Untapped Potential of Gamma-Delta, NK in cancer immunotherapy

Daniel Olive (Marseille, France) TBC


10:00 – Coffee break

10:20 – Group photo


Industrial symposium III

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10:30 – Title

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11:00 – Title

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11:30 – 12:15

Keynote lecture : Recent advances and current challenges in CAR-T cell therapy

Chairs : Halvard Bönig (Francfort, Germany) & name of chair(s) (City, Country)

Dr Martin Pule (London, UK) TBC


12:15 – Lunch


Session SFGM-TC: CAR T-cell toxicity and patient’s management

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14:00 – Coffee break


Challenging indications

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14:30 – Approaches to overcome resistance mechanisms in AML against CAR-T Cell Therapy

Erik Kimble (Seattle, USA)

14:50 – Anti-CD7 CAR T-cell therapy in T-cell malignancies

Peihua Lu (Beijing, China)

15:10 – Claudin18.2-CAR T-cell therapy in metastatic gastric cancer

Gregory Botta (La Jolla, California, USA)

15:30 – CAR T-cell therapy in autoimmune diseases (European Guidelines)

Dominique Farge-Bancel (Paris, France)

15:50 – CAR T-cell therapy in central nervous system immunity

Sasha Gupta (San Francisco, USA)


16:10 – Coffee break


Upcoming new technologies session

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16:30 – In vivo Gene Placement System (iGPS) for targeted gene therapy

Michael Birnbaum (Boston, USA)

16:50 – System Immunology and Cellular Immunotherapy

Naomi Taylor (NIH, Bethesda, USA)

17:10 – Emerging Technologies for Controlled Gene Expression in Cell Therapy Applications

Ahmad S. Khalil (Boston, USA) TBC

17:40 – Enhancing NK Cell Homing for Cancer Therapy

Mattias Carlsten (Stockholm, Sweden)


18:00 – Closing remarks