G: Therapeutic and Translational Immunology*

Sunday, April 19, 2026
8:00–11:15 AM
Room 253 

MAJOR SYMPOSIUM G 

Therapeutic and Translational Immunology* 

Chairs: 

Jane Grogan, Biogen, USA 

Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA 

Speakers: 

Donna Flesher, Biogen, USA, From signal to strategy: Integrating biomarkers in clinical trials to accelerate drug development in transplant

Sai Reddy, ETH Zurich, DEU, Generative design of antibody Fc variants with synthetic and programmable immune function 

Faez Amokrane Nait Mohamed, Harvard Med. Sch., USA, Intranasal administration of a pan-reactive influenza antibody reveals Fc-independent mode of protection 

Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Engineering cytokine/antibody fusion proteins as targeted immunotherapeutics 

James Torchia, Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., Harvard Med. Sch., USA, Targeted immunosuppression with a tissue-selective PD-1 agonist prevents rejection of transplanted hearts 

John E. Harris, UMass Med. Sch., USA, Vitiligo treatment from the Bronze Age to the Age of Biologics: new hope for an ancient disease

Michael Birnbaum, MIT, USA, Decoding adaptive immunity 

*topic requested by IMMUNOLOGY2025™ attendees

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