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Center for Cancer Immunology Research

The Center for Cancer Immunology Research (CCIR) addresses immunology-based approaches to the treatment of cancer and has emerged as a one-of-a-kind cancer immunology research program that allows laboratory immunologists to work with clinical oncologists to develop new or improved forms of cancer immunotherapy that activate and instruct our immune system to eliminate cancer and prevent its recurrence.

Unlike targeted therapy and conventional chemotherapy for most malignancies, immunotherapy has the advantage of providing long-term clinical benefit in some patients. Although this benefit has not been seen in all patients treated with immunotherapy, one of the goals of the CCIR is to improve our understanding of the immune system, especially in the context of the tumor immune microenvironment, in order to modulate immunity to optimally enhance patient outcome.

Since the center's inception in 2003, CCIR investigators have made remarkable progress in the number of high-quality publications, level of research support, and number of investigator-initiated pre-clinical studies/clinical trials.

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Center for Cancer Immunology Research (CCIR)

South Campus Research Building I
7455 Fannin Street
Houston, Texas 77054-1901
713-563-3203

2020 CCIR Seminar Series

About

CCIR hosted a seminar series for postdocs and graduate students working in the labs of CCIR faculty.

Spring 2020

February 27, 2020
Speaker: Anupallavi Srinivasamani
Mentor: Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Department and Graduate Program: Immunology

March 12, 2020
Speaker: Abel Trujillo-Ocampo, Ph.D.
Mentor: Jin Seon Im, Ph.D.
Department: Stem Cell Transplantation
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Speaker: Chih-Chien Chou, Ph.D.
Mentor: Kimberly Schluns, Ph.D.
Department: Immunology

March 19, 2020
Speaker: Akash Boda
Mentor: Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Department and Graduate Program: Immunology

March 26, 2020
Speaker: Genevieve Hartley, Ph.D.
Mentor: Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Department: Immunology

April 9, 2020
Speaker: Donald A Sakellariou-Thompson
Mentor: Chantale Bernatchez, Ph.D.
Department: Melanoma Medical Oncology
Graduate Program: Immunology
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Speaker: Didem Agac, Ph.D.
Mentor: James Allison, Ph.D.
Department: Immunology

April 16, 2020
Speaker: Hyun-Woo Cho, Ph.D.
Mentor: Jin Seon Im, Ph.D.
Department: Stem Cell Transplantation

April 23, 2020
Speaker: Yusra Medik, Ph.D.
Mentor: Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.
Department: Immunology

April 30, 2020
Speaker: Elien Doorduijn, Ph.D.
Mentor: Patrick Hwu, M.D.
Department: Melanoma Medical Oncology

May 14, 2020
Speaker: Priyamvada Jayaprakash, Ph.D.
Mentor: Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Department: Immunology
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Speaker: Rolando Vedia
Mentor: Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D.
Department: Stem Cell Transplantation
Graduate Program: Therapeutics and Pharmacology

May 21, 2020
Speaker: Rachel Babcock
Mentor: Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.
Department and Graduate Program: Immunology

May 28, 2020
Speaker: Parin Shah
Mentor: Chantale Bernatchez, Ph.D.
Department: Melanoma Medical Oncology
Graduate Program: Immunology

Summer 2020

June 11, 2020
Speaker: Simone Punt, Ph.D.
Mentor: Patrick Hwu, M.D.
Department: Melanoma Medical Oncology
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Speaker: Haven Garber
Mentor: Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D.
Department: Stem Cell Transplantation
Graduate Program: Immunology

June 18, 2020
Speaker: Arthur Liu
Mentor: Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Department and Graduate Program: Immunology

June 25, 2020
Speaker: Renee Chin
Mentor: James Allison, Ph.D.
Department and Graduate Program: Immunology

July 9, 2020
Speaker: Kyle Jackson
Mentor: Greg Lizee, Ph.D.
Department: Melanoma Medical Oncology
Graduate Program: Immunology
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Speaker: Olga Sizova, Ph.D.
Mentor: Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D.
Department: Stem Cell Transplantation

July 16, 2020
Speaker: Xiaojie Yang
Mentor: James Allison, Ph.D.
Department and Graduate Program: Immunology

July 23, 2020
Speaker: Bhakti Patel, Ph.D.
Mentor: Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.
Department: Immunology

July 30, 2020
Speaker: Caitlin Creasy
Mentor: Chantale Bernatchez, Ph.D.
Department: Melanoma Medical Oncology
Graduate Program: Immunology