AAI Annual Meeting To Have

Allo Transplant Session

A session on allogeneic transplants and immunotherapy for cancer is being organized by ASBMT for IMMUNOLOGY 2009, the 96th annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists on May 8-12 in Seattle. 

"Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation:

Immunotherapy of Cancer"

Chair:  Marcel R. M. van den Brink, MD, PhD

           Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

■  Graft-versus-Host Disease:  Pathophysiology and Prevention

    Bruce R. Blazar, MD

    University of Minnesota

■  T and B Cell Responses to Human Minor Histocompatibility

    Antigens

    Jerome Ritz, MD

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

■  Adoptive Therapy with T Cell Precursors

    Dr. van den Brink

■  Establishing Persistent Antitumor Immunity after Hematopoietic

    Stem Cell Transplant

    Stanley R. Riddell, MD

    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Visit the AAI Web site for more information and registration.