Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

Mansoor M. Amiji is the Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Dr. Amiji has edited a number of books and is a frequently published author. His research focuses on the synthesis of novel polymeric materials for medical and pharmaceutical applications, drug delivery systems and nanomedical technologies, and his contributions in research advising, grant reviews for various organizations and editorial work for journals are invaluable. Dr. Lara Milane is Assistant Teaching Professor in Biotechnology at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She is interested in Mitochondrial Medicine. She is working on developing nanomedicines for a range of diseases (cancer, neurodegenerative disease, aging) that manipulate mitochondria for therapeutic outcomes. Dr. Milane was trained as a National Cancer Institute/ National Science Foundation Nanomedicine Fellow at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Dr. Milane is an intuitive cancer biologist with research interests in developing translational nanomedicines that exploit the hallmarks of cancer.

1. The hallmarks of cancer and immunology
2. Innate and adaptive immunity in cancer
3. Inflammation and cancer
4. Novel immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer: Voltage-gated sodium channel expression in immune cells and tumors
5. Immunoediting and cancer priming
6. Metabolic reprogramming and immunity in cancer
7. Epigenetic programming of the immune responses in cancer
8. Cellular therapeutics in immuno-oncology
9. T-cell engaging bispecific antibody therapy
10. Role of microbiome in cancer immunotherapy
11. STING pathway and modulation for cancer immunotherapy
12. Oncolytic viruses in immunotherapy
13. Comparison of therapeutic strategies for immuno-oncology
14. Intrinsic and acquired cancer immunotherapy resistance
15. Preclinical and clinical toxicity of immuno-oncology agents and mitigation strategies