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Session Details

Purposeful Cellular and Microbiome Engineering - not just CAR-Ts
Thursday, May 30, 2024 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM  
Room 211
Translation to Clinic
Concurrent Session
Chair:
  • Sowmya Viswanathan, PhD, University Health Network, Canada
Speakers:
  • Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng, University of British Columbia, Canada, "Engineering Gut Bacteria as Diagnostics Tools"
  • Megan Levings, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada, "Taking an Allogeneic Treg Therapy from the Lab to the Clinic"
  • Rita Barcia, PhD, Independent Expert, United States
Gene editing is not just for T cells. Join us for an exciting, cutting edge session to learn and discuss how precision engineering can be used to engineer different cell types and microorganisms. Learn about recent advances in developing macrophage therapies; understand how CAR-engineered Tregs can induce immune tolerance with implications for autoimmune diseases, organ transplants and stem cell transplantation. Explore the role of gut microbiome in intestinal diseases and how microbiome engineering might aid in abetting them.
Sowmya Viswanathan
Scientist
 Schroeder Arthritis Institute, University Health Network
 Chair
Carolina Tropini
Assistant Professor
 University of British Columbia
 Speaker
Megan Levings
Professor
 University of British Columbia
 Speaker