Plenary Sessions and Speakers
All times are stated in CEST
OPENING PLENARY AND INTRODUCTION TO IPVC (LIVE)
Tuesday, July 21 | 18:00 – 19:10 | Live Sessions Hall
Welcome by the meeting co-chair
Silvia De Sanjose, USA (PATH, Director of Scale-up Project Reproductive Health Global Program)
Welcome by the IPVS President and meeting co-chair
Margaret Stanley, UK (University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology)
Immunology
Rafi Ahmed, USA (Emory Vaccine Center, Director)
IPVC PLENARY SESSION 2 (LIVE)
Wednesday, July 22 | 18:00 – 19:40 | Live Sessions Hall
Global control of Hepatitis B
Alex Vorsters, Belgium (University of Antwerp, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute) – a member of Prof. Pierre Van Damme’s team
HPV Pathogenesis in Animal Models
Paul Lambert, USA (Carbone Cancer Center, Director of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Virology Program Leader)
Immunotherapy: Progress in the clinic
Cornelis Melief, The Netherlands (ISA Pharmaceuticals, Chief Scientific Officer; Leiden University Medical Center, Emeritus Professor and Head of the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion)
Live Q&A
All speakers and chairs
IPVC PLENARY SESSION 3 (LIVE)
Thursday, July 23 | 18:00 – 19:40 | Live Sessions Hall
T cell dysfunction and implications for immunotherapy
Andrea Schietinger, USA (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Assistant Professor and Cancer Immunologist)
Laser ART and CRISPR approaches for viral elimination
Howard Gendelman, USA (Durham Research Center, Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases)
DNA Methylation and Women’s Cancers
Martin Widschwendter, UK (University College London, Head of the Department of Women’s Cancer)
Live Q&A
All speakers and chairs
IPVC PLENARY SESSION 4 (Pre-recorded)
Friday, July 24 | 11:00 – 12:35 | Hall A
Resource-appropriate immunotherapeutic approaches to the elimination of cervical cancer
Corey Casper, USA (Infectious Disease Research Institute, Interim President and Chief Scientific Officer)
Use of Deep Learning into Cervical Cancer Screening
Mark Schiffman, USA (National Cancer Institute, Senior Investigator)
Oral Cancer Therapeutics
Robert Ferris, USA (UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Director)
IPVC CLOSING PLENARY (LIVE)
Friday, July 24 | 18:00 – 19:30 | Live Sessions Hall
Introduction
Margaret Stanley, UK (University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology)
Immunology HPV vaccines
Denise Galloway, USA (Fred Hutch; Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Integrated Research Center, Scientific Director)
Followed by:
Live Q&A with Denise Galloway
HPV, a personal view (Pre-recorded)
Xavier Bosch, Spain (Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Honorary Consultant to the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program & Director of the e-oncologia at ICO)
Video message from Dr Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (Pre-recorded)
WHO’s Cervical Cancer Elimination Strategy
Princess Nothemba Simelela, Switzerland (Assistant Director-General/Special Adviser to DG, Strategic Programmatic Priorities)
IPVC 2021
Ann Burchell, Canada (Dept of Family and Community Medicine and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael’s Hospital, Associate Professor)
Closing remarks
Silvia De Sanjose, USA (PATH, Director of Scale-up Project Reproductive Health Global Program)