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Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center

Oct 25, 2017 7:00 AM - Oct 27, 2017 3:00 PM

5701 Marinelli Road, , North Bethesda, MD 20852 , USA

DIA/FDA Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics Conference

Convening industry and health authorities to inform, educate, and share advancements in oligonucleotide-based therapeutic product development.

Session 3C: New Approaches in the Development of Immune Stimulatory Oligonucleotides in Oncology

Session Chair(s)

Arthur M. Krieg, MD

Arthur M. Krieg, MD

CEO and CSO

Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, United States

The innate immune system has evolved multiple different receptors for the detection of viral or bacterial RNA and DNA including several Toll-like receptors (TLR), the RIG-I family of helicases, cGAS, and others. These receptors trigger both T cell and B cell adaptive immune responses that are capable of killing infected host cells. Synthetic nucleic acids that activate several different innate immune receptors are in clinical development for the purpose of triggering innate immune resposnes against tumor antigens in subjects with cancer.

Learning Objective :
  • Describe how synthetic nucleic acids can activate innate immunity via TLRs and RIG-I
  • Recognize how innate immune activation can induce anti-tumor B cell and T cell immune responses
  • Compare the pharmacodynamic effects of different innate immune activating nucleic acids
  • Classify the safety profiles of innate immune activating nucleic acids
  • Speaker(s)

    Emily  Place, PhD, MPH

    Session Co-Chair

    Emily Place, PhD, MPH

    Aclairo Pharmaceutical Development Group, United States

    Senior Consultant

    Arthur M. Krieg, MD

    Making “Cold” Tumors “Hot” with Intratumoral Injections of a CpG-A Oligonucleotide Packaged in a VLP

    Arthur M. Krieg, MD

    Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, United States

    CEO and CSO

    Jonathan  Yingling

    Exploiting the TLR9 Pathway to Overcome Tumor Immune Ignorance

    Jonathan Yingling

    Idera, United States

    Senior Vice President, Early Developement

    Matthias  Miller, PhD

    Cancer Immunotherapy: Individualized mRNA-Based Vaccines for the Treatment of Cancer

    Matthias Miller, PhD

    BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Germany

    Project Manager

      Panel Discussion

    Panel Discussion

    All Session Speakers, United States

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