The Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN) is a consortium to accelerate translation of basic discoveries to clinical applications to improve immunotherapy outcomes for both “hot” and “cold” cancers - and to prevent cancers before they occur. The implementation plan of the IOTN is to focus on leveraging the expertise and resources of a collaborative network to develop improved immunotherapy and immunoprevention approaches - including novel combinations. Towards this goal, the IOTN has formed a number of cross-cutting functional Working Groups to network across the IOTN with the broad goals to identify and address barriers to progress, and pioneer advances in the field.
BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY WORKING GROUP ▼
Chair: Yi Xing, PhD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Chair: Eliezer Van Allen, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Working Group meetings occur on the fourth Friday of each month at 12 noon Pacific / 2pm Central / 3 pm Eastern time.
NIH Staff Members
Kevin Howcroft (NCI)
Lillian Kuo (NCI)
David Patton (NCI/CBIIT)
IMMUNO-PREVENTION WORKING GROUP ▼
Chair: Shadmehr Demehri, MD, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
Co-Chair: Steven Lipkin, MD, PhD - Weill Cornell Medicine
Working Group meetings to occur tentatively on the first Thursday on a quarterly basis at 1 pm Pacific / 3 pm Central / 4 pm Eastern Time.
NIH Staff Members
Kevin Howcroft (NCI)
Lillian Kuo (NCI)
Robert Shoemaker (NCI)
IMMUNO-RADIOTHERAPY WORKING GROUP ▼
Chair: Zachary Morris, MD, PhD – University of Wisconsin - Madison
Co-Chair: Khleif Samir, MD - Georgetown University
Co-Chair: Andrew Sikora, MD, PhD - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Working Group meetings occur on the first Tuesday of every alternate month at 12 pm Pacific / 2 pm Central / 3 pm Eastern Time.
NIH Staff Members
Mansoor Ahmed (NCI)
Kasia Bourcier (NCI)
Kory Hallett (NCI)
Kevin Howcroft (NCI)
Lillian Kuo (NCI)
Chiayeng Wang (NIDCR)
Connie Sommers (NCI)
TRANSLATIONAL CELLULAR THERAPY WORKING GROUP ▼
Chair: Stephen Schoenberger, PhD - La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Co-Chair: Wendell Lim, PhD - University of California, San Francisco
Working Group meetings occur quarterly on the fourth Wednesday at 8:30 am Pacific / 10:30 am Central / 11:30 am Eastern Time.
NIH Staff Members
Kasia Bourcier (NCI)
Laura Brockway-Lunardi (NCI)
Kory Hallett (NCI)
Lori Henderson (NCI)
Kevin Howcroft (NCI)
Lillian Kuo (NCI)
Connie Sommers (NCI)
Minkyung Song (NCI)
IMMUNE MECHANISM AND RECOGNITION WORKING GROUP ▼
Chair: Lawrence Fong, MD - University of California, San Francisco
Co-Chair: Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD - University of California, Irvine
Working Group meetings occur quarterly on the third Thursday at 11 am Pacific / 1 pm Central / 2 pm Eastern time.
NIH Staff Members
Kevin Howcroft (NCI)
Lillian Kuo (NCI)
Chair: Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD -Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Co-Chair: Andrew Sikora, MD, PhD - MD Anderson Cancer Center
NIH Staff Members
Lori Henderson (NCI)
Kevin Howcroft (NCI)
Lillian Kuo (NCI)
Shizuko Sei (NCI)
Minkyung Song (NCI)
Anthony Welch (NCI)
Jason Yovandich (NCI)
