2018 Antibody Therapeutics Conference

Time

Topic and Speaker

08:30 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 09:05

Opening Remarks
Lawrence Gan, Ph.D
Director of Taiwan Antibody Association; President/CEO, Foresee Pharmaceuticals

09:05 - 09:10

Herbert Wu, Ph.D.
President, Development Center for Biotechnology

Opening Keynote

Moderator
09:10 - 09:15

Andrew H.-J. Wang, Ph.D.
Distinguished Visiting Chair, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica; President, IUBMB

09:15 - 10:00

Cancer Cell Cast a Sweet Spell on Tumor Microenvironment: Opportunities and Challenges 
Alice Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor & Co-Director of the Institute of Stem Cell & Cancer Translational Research in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

10:00 - 10:30

Break

Moderator
10:30 - 10:35

Shie-Liang Edmond Hsieh, M.D., D.Phil.

Distinguished Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica

10:35 - 11:05

What You Eat Makes You Strong but Vulnerable : Metabolic Targeting of Intramural Tregs in Cancer Immunotherapy 
Ping-Chih Ho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Ludwig adjunct scientist
Department of oncology UNIL CHUV/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne

11:35 - 12:05

Finding Better Combinations of Immunotherapy 
Keng-Li Lan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University
Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital

12:05 - 13:40

Lunch (Taiwan Antibody Association Members Meeting and Poster Viewing)

12:15 - 12:45

Lunch Panel / Industry satellite symposium

Moderator
13:40 - 13:45

Ping-Ning Hsu, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Graduate Institute of Immunology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University

13:45 - 14:15

Understanding Immune Checkpoint TIM-3 Biology and TIM-3 Antibody for Cancer Immunotherapy 
Xiaomo Jiang , Ph.D.
Investigator II, Exploratory Immuno-Oncology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

14:15 - 14:45

Clinical Experience and Safety Management of Immunotherapy

John Wen-Cheng Chang, M.D.

Chief, Division of Medical Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital; Director, Immune-Oncology Center of Excellence, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital; Chairman, Taiwan Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer

14:45 - 15:15

Current Progress of Immunotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Chih-Hsin Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor & Director, Graduate Institute of Oncology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University

15:15 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 16:00

Poster Award

Closing Keynote

Moderator
16:00 - 16:05

Herbert Wu, Ph.D.
President, Development Center for Biotechnology

16:05 - 16:50

Engineering Adaptive Cell and Gene Therapies 
Timothy K. Lu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Synthetic Biology Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

16:50 - 17:00

Closing Remarks 
Herbert Wu, Ph.D.
President, Development Center for Biotechnology