International LIT Symposium

“Synthetic Immunology / Synthetic Biology”

June 23rd – 24th, 2026
Regensburg, Germany

International LIT Symposium

“Synthetic Immunology / Synthetic Biology”

June 23rd – 24th, 2026 | Regensburg, Germany

OUR PROGRAM

Symposium at “Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte”
Donaumarkt 1, 93047 Regensburg 

08.00 – 09.00  Registration

09.00 – 10.00  Keynote Carl H. June  Updates with CAR T cells

10.00 – 10.30  Yvonne Y. Chen  Engineering multi-pronged CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumors

10.30 – 11.00  Christine Brown  Next-generation CAR T-cell approaches for Glioblastoma: overcoming barriers to efficacy

11.00 – 11.30  Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00  Marcela Maus  Test driving CAR T cells

12.00 – 12.30  Luca Gattinoni  Stem cell memory T cells for next-generation CAR T therapy

12.30 – 15.00  Lunch + Poster session / Lightning talks at Salzstadel Weisse-Lamm-Gasse 1, 93047 Regensburg

Return to and continuation of Symposium at “Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte” Donaumarkt 1, 93047 Regensburg 

15.00 – 16.00  Keynote Michel W. Sadelain  TBA

16.00 – 16.30  Katie Galloway  Genetic control systems for programming cell fate

16.30 – 17.00  Leonardo Morsut  Programming pattern, shape, and function: learning the rules of multicellular organization

17.00 – 17.30  Justin Eyquem  Ex vivo and in vivo genome editing to reprogram T cells

From 18.00  Social event / Joint dinner

Preliminary program – subject to change without prior notice

Symposium at “Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte”
Donaumarkt 1, 93047 Regensburg 

09.00 – 10.00  Keynote George Coukos  Building personalised T-cell therapy for solid tumors

10.00 – 10.30  Sai Reddy  Predicting adaptive immune receptor specificity by AI

10.30 – 11.00  Dominik Niopek  Precision control of protein activity for synthetic immunology and beyond

11.00 – 11.30  Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00  Sebastian Kobold  Optimizing cell-based strategies for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia

12.00 – 12.30  Roman Jerala  Protein domain engineering for improved efficiency of CAR T-cell immunotherapy

12.30 – 13.00  Leo Scheller  Protein engineering for tumor microenvironment-specific CARs

13.00 – 13.30  Petra Schwille  Hidden champions – what minimal cells can teach us about proteins

13.30 – 14.30  Lunch break

14.30 – 15.30  Keynote Shimon Sakaguchi  TBA

15.30 – 16.00  Gerhard Krönke  Resetting autoimmunity in immune-mediated inflammatory disease

16.00 – 16.30  Markus Feuerer  Tissue adaptation of regulatory T cells and engineering

16.30  End of meeting

Preliminary program – subject to change without prior notice

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