Immune Engineering & Cellular Immunotherapy
October 28 - 31, 2025
Abstract Deadline: August 15, 2025
Organizers:
Catherine Bollard, Children's National Hospital
Sidi Chen, Yale University
Hongbo Chi, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Neville Sanjana, New York Genome Center & NYU
We are pleased to announce a new meeting on Immune Engineering & Cellular Immunotherapy, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. The meeting will begin with dinner and an evening session on Tuesday, October 28, and conclude with lunch on Friday, October 31, 2025.
The CSHL Immune Engineering & Cellular Immunotherapy meeting will bring together bioscientists and clinicians who are developing cellular therapies and other immune-based approaches to target a variety of human diseases. The meeting will include fundamental advances in the basic biology of cellular engineering, as well as translational and clinical advances that are being developed in laboratories around the world.
Topics:
- T cell engineering and CAR-T therapy
- Natural killer cells and NK therapy
- Myeloid cell engineering and targeting
- CRISPR screen in immune cells
- In situ / in vivo immune engineering and cancer vaccine
- Translational and clinical cell therapy
Keynote Speakers:
Michel Sadelain, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kai Wucherpfennig, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Confirmed Discussion Leaders:
Challice Bonifant, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Madhav Dhodapkar, Emory University School of Medicine
Peter Fecci, Duke University School of Medicine
Stephen Gottschalk, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Dean Lee, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Ming Li, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Alexander Marson, University of California, San Francisco
Miriam Merad, The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Medicine
Filipe Pereira, Lund University, Sweden
Claudia Roessig, University of Munster, Germany
Weiping Zou, University of Michigan Medical School
Please bring this notice to the attention of any of your colleagues who may be interested in participating in the meeting.
All abstracts must be submitted by the abstract deadline. Late registrations may be accepted after the abstract deadline if the meeting is not oversubscribed. In the event of over-subscription, every effort will be made to ensure that all groups who wish to participate will be represented. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from the government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Please apply in writing via email to Val Pakaluk and state your financial needs; preference will be given to those who submit abstracts.
Social Media:
The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlimmeng. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.
This meeting is sponsored by:
Pricing:
In-Person Fees:
Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1505
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1415
Academic Shared Room Package: $1300
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $990
Student Package/Double Occupancy: $1195
Student Package/No Housing Package: $885
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1935
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1420
*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please inquire about availability and fees to upgrade to a private room.
NOTE: We cannot guarantee housing will be on campus.
Room package reservations close 2 weeks before the meeting start date.
Virtual Participation: Includes access to the oral sessions via Zoom, the digital poster gallery, the Slack discussion workspace, and the Leading Strand video archive. If you are submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, please plan to attend the meeting in-person.
Presenters: Individuals submitting abstracts and facing financial barriers should firstly request financial aid (see above). Permission to present your talk or poster virtually will be given only in exceptional circumstances and on a case-by-case basis. If you think you are eligible for an exemption from the requirement to present in person, please provide a justification in writing via email to Val Pakaluk.
Non-presenting participants: We plan to broaden access to the conference by allowing certain categories of non-presenting participants to attend virtually at reduced fees.
Categories include:
1. Individuals from low & middle income countries;
2. Individuals from non-LMIC countries in Asia, Australasia, Africa or South America;
3. Individuals from US & Canadian minority serving institutions;
4. Individuals with a demonstrable financial barrier;
5. Individuals with family obligations or other special circumstances.
For categories 4 & 5 above, please provide a justification via email to Val Pakaluk.
Virtual Fees:
Academic Virtual Package: $315
Grad Student Virtual Package: $185
Corporate Virtual Package: $460
Late Fee (Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on October 23)
Late Academic Virtual Package: $415
Late Student Virtual Package: $285
Late Corporate Virtual Package: $560