Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes: Gaps and Opportunities Forum Series (Past Forums)

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | 11:00-12:30 pm ET

Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes in the Context of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures

Moderator & Speakers

Marie-Caroline Dieu-Nosjean, PhD Research Director
Center of Immunology and Microbial Infections (Cimi), Inserm, Sorbonne University, France

Francesca Barone, MD, PhD Chief Scientific Officer
Candel Therapeutics, United States

Nikhil S Joshi, PhD Associate Professor of Immunobiology, Co-Leader for Cancer Immunology Program
Yale School of Medicine, United States

Juan C. Osorio, MD Assistant Member, Immuno-Oncology Program. Assistant Attending, Gynecologic Medical Oncology Service
Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Thursday, April 23, 2026 | 11:30 am to 1:00 pm ET

Tumor Draining Lymph Node Dynamics: Systemic Relevance and Effects on Distant Metastasis, Lessons from Patients and Animal Models (Part 2)

Moderator & Speakers

Tanja D. De Gruijl, PhD Professor of Translational Immunology
Amsterdam UMC

Eliane Piaggio, PhD Translational Immunotherapy Team
Institut Curie

Nicolas Girard, MD, PhD Thoracic Oncologist
Institut Curie

Sylvio Gutkind, PhD Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | 11:30 AM -1:00 PM ET

Tumor Draining Lymph Node Dynamics: Systemic Relevance and Effects on Distant Metastasis, Lessons from Patients and Animal Models (Part 1)

Moderator & Speakers

Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD Assistant Professor
Stanford University

Mary Jo Turk, PhD Professor
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine

Kamila Naxerova, PhD Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School

Alexander Huang, MD Assistant Professor
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 12:00 to 1:30 pm ET

Events that Facilitate Metastasis to the Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes

Moderator & Speakers

Timothy P. Padera, PhD Professor of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Jessalyn M. Ubellacker, MD, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Stefani Spranger, PhD Associate Director of Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Kathleen and Curtis; Marble Professor in Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jonathan Villena-Vargas, MD Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

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Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | 11:30-1:00 pm ET

Lymph Nodes Remodeling in Health and Disease: Lessons for Cancer

Moderator & Speakers

Burkhard Ludewig, DVM Professor
Head Medical Research Center, Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland

Amanda W. Lund, PhD Associate Professor
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA

Ivan Maillard, MD, PhD Head of Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Department of Medicine Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Sophie E. Acton, PhD Professor of Immunology and Senior Cancer Research Fellow
Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK

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