Thursday, May 11, 2023     2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET     Room 207B

Block Symposium

Myeloid Cells in Cancer Hosts I

Chairs

• Melanie R. Rutkowski, Univ. of Virginia
• Tracy McGaha, Univ. Hlth. Network

Speakers

• Mitchell Thomas McGinty, Univ. of Virginia, Absence of Toll-like receptor 5 confers survival in mice bearing ovarian tumors treated with anti-PD-L1
• Anthony Michael Cannon, Indiana Univ. Sch. of Med., IL-9 responsive macrophages utilize Arginase 1 to enhance lung tumor growth
• Devanshi A. Nayak, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med., Elucidating the role of heat shock protein receptor CD91 on antigen presenting cells during cancer immunosurveillance
• Sara Lamorte, Univ. Hlth. Network, Canada, Medullary sinus macrophages limit cancer therapy efficacy by an efferocytosis-induced IL-33/ST2 axis in the tumor-draining lymph node
• Olivia J. Cheng, Univ. of Utah Sch. of Med., MAIT cell-mediated inhibition of colorectal tumor growth is associated with increase in IL-5 and accumulation of eosinophils in the tumor microenvironment
• Hyun-Jin Kim, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. and Technol., South Korea, Monocyte-derived CD169⁺ macrophages advance the antitumor immunity against glioblastoma multiforme