Plenary Sessions and Speakers
IPVC 2020 postponed to July 20-24, 2020
All times are stated in CET
OPENING PLENARY AND INTRODUCTION TO IPVC
Tuesday, July 21 | 18:00 – 19:45 | Hall A
Welcome by the meeting co-chair
Silvia De Sanjose, USA (PATH, Director of Scale-up Project Reproductive Health Global Program)
Welcome by the IPVS President and meeting co-chair
Margaret Stanley, UK (University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology)
Frontiers in modern Oncology in Spain
Luis Paz-Ares, Spain (Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Medical Oncology department, Chief Physician)
Immunology
Rafi Ahmed, USA (Emory Vaccine Center, Director)
IPVC PLENARY SESSION 2
Wednesday, July 22 | 18:00 – 19:30 | Hall A
Global control of Hepatitis B
Pierre Van Damme, Belgium (University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Professor)
HPV Pathogenesis in Animal Models
Paul Lambert, USA (Carbone Cancer Center, Director of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Virology Program Leader)
Immunotherapy: Progress in the clinic
Cornelis Melief, The Netherlands (ISA Pharmaceuticals, Chief Scientific Officer; Leiden University Medical Center, Emeritus Professor and Head of the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion)
IPVC PLENARY SESSION 3
Thursday, July 23 | 18:00 – 19:30 | Hall A
T cell dysfunction and implications for immunotherapy
Andrea Schietinger, USA (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Assistant Professor and Cancer Immunologist)
Potential use of Nanoparticle therapy in HPV associated cancers and the potential role for precancer treatment
Howard Gendelman, USA (Durham Research Center, Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases)
Methylation
Martin Widschwendter, UK (University College London, Head of the Department of Women’s Cancer)
IPVC PLENARY SESSION 4
Friday, July 24 | 11:00 – 12:35 | Hall A
Resource-appropriate immunotherapeutic approaches to the elimination of cervical cancer
Corey Casper, USA (Infectious Disease Research Institute, Interim President and Chief Scientific Officer)
Use of Deep Learning into Cervical Cancer Screening
Mark Schiffman, USA (National Cancer Institute, Senior Investigator)
Oral Cancer Therapeutics
Robert Ferris, USA (UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Director)
IPVC CLOSING PLENARY
Friday, July 24 | 18:00 – 19:30 | Hall A
Immunology HPV vaccines
Denise Galloway, USA (Fred Hutch; Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Integrated Research Center, Scientific Director)
WHO’s Cervical Cancer Elimination Strategy
Princess Nothemba Simelela, Switzerland (Assistant Director-General/Special Adviser to DG, Strategic Programmatic Priorities)
Video message from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
HPV, a personal view
Xavier Bosch, Spain (Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Honorary Consultant to the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program & Director of the e-oncologia at ICO)
IPVC 2021
Ann Burchell, Canada (Dept of Family and Community Medicine and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael’s Hospital, Associate Professor) & Eduardo Franco, Canada (Department of Oncology, McGill University, Professor and Chair)