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Scientific Program
Friday, April 11, 2008: Lecture Halls of the Medical University Vienna
17.00 - 17.10 Welcome note: Erika Jensen-Jarolim
17.10 - 17.50 Tuning lecture: Georg Stingl (Vienna, Austria)
17.50 19.00: Poster session / Wine and Cheese
(chaired by Hannah Gould, London, and Luca Vangelista, Milano)
Saturday, April 12, 2008:
09.00 10.30 Symposium 1: Th2 immunity in cancer
Chairs: Hannah Gould & Manuel Penichet
10.30 11.00: Coffee Break
11.00 12.30: Symposium 2: IgE in parasitic disease and allergy
Chairs: Eva Untersmayr & Reinhart Jarisch
- Rick Maizels (Edinburgh, UK)
Immunological features of parasitic infections - parallels with tumor immunology?
- Adriano Mari (Rome, Italy)
Bioinformatic tools in AllergoOncology: expanding the application of the Allergome
12.30 13.30: Lunch at Posters
13.30 15.30: Symposium 3: Effector functions of IgE
Chairs: Diana Mechtcheriakova & Rick Maizels
- Peter Valent (Vienna, Austria)
Mast cells in hematologic and non-hematologic neoplasms
and comparison to allergic diseases
- Sophia Karagiannis (London, UK)
The role of IgE receptors in IgE-mediated targeting and killing of tumor cells
- Antonio Siccardi (Milano, Italy)
IgE as adjuvant in tumor vaccination
15.30 16.30: Short presentations: Experimental AllergoOncology
Chairs: Sophia Karagiannis & N.N.
16.30 - 17.00: Coffee break
17.00 18.00: Pros and Cons of AllergoOncology
Chairs: Cris Parish & Antonio Siccardi
- Mads Melbye (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Atopy and the risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Manuel Penichet (Los Angeles, USA)
Novel antibodies of IgE class targeting HER2/neu and CD20 for the treatment of cancer
18.00 Poster Award Ceremony
Bus transfer to Stadtheurigen Zwoelf-Apostelkeller, 1st District, Vienna
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