2022 Year in Review Symposium

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Penn Immunology: Year in Review

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM	Introduction by John Wherry, PhD, Director, IFI Warren Pear, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, IFI
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM	Immune Health Overview Allie Greenplate, PhD - Associate Director, Immune Health Project “Immune Health: Broad and Deep Immune Profiling to Improve Patient Care” Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCPC – Melissa and Paul Anderson President’s Distinguished Professor “Implementing lessons from immune perturbation with RNA vaccine in multiple sclerosis patients on B-cell depleting therapy”
12:00 PM – 1:20 PM	Lunch
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM	2022 Immunology Graduate Group Saul Winegrad Awardee Claudia Arevalo, PhD “Of Mice, Ferrets, and Men: From Original antigen sin to a new universal influenza virus vaccine candidate”
1:40 PM – 2:30 PM	Introduction by Jon Epstein, MD - Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer Roberts Family-Katalin Karikó Fellowship Program Michela Locci, PhD – Assistant Professor of Microbiology “Immunological mechanism of mRNA vaccines” Norbert Pardi, PhD – Assistant Professor of Microbiology “Development and evaluation of lyophilized nucleoside-modified mRNA-LNP vaccines”
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM	Matis Family IFI Investigator Award Katalin Karikó, PhD - Adjunct Professor in Neurosurgery, Senior Vice President at BioNTech “Developing mRNA for therapy” Drew Weissman, MD, PhD - Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research “Nucleoside-Modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutic”
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM	Keynote Presentation: Erika Pearce, PhD - Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine “Mitochondrial Shape-Shifting in the T Cell Response”
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM	Poster Session/Reception