Organizing Committee

Chair

Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD, is Senior Vice President for Team Science, Chair of Department of Immunology and Chief of Division of Translational Immuno-Oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Kalinski received his MD in 1991 from the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, and PhD in Immunology in 1998 from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Before joining Roswell Park in 2017, Dr. Kalinski was a tenured Professor of Surgery and the Founding Director of the ImmunoTransplantation Center of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, a cell therapy center focusing on non-genetically-manipulated cells.

Co-Chairs

Piotr Rutkowski, MD, PhD
Medical Research Agency, Poland
Michael Nishimura
Loyola University Chicago

Scientific Program Committee

Mikhail Berezin, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Brian Czerniecki, MD, PhD
Moffitt Cancer Center
Iwona Lugowska, Md, PhD
National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland
Kathleen Kokolus, PhD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Leszek Kotula, MD, PhD
Upstate Medical University
Sandro Matosevic, PhD
Purdue University
Lazlo Mechtler, MD, FAAN, FASN
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Petar Ozretic, PhD
Croatian Society for Cancer Research
Waldemar Priebe, PhD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Marek Rudnicki, MD
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Kestutis Suziedelis, PhD
National Cancer Institute in Lithuania
Anda Vlad, MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute

Local Organizing Committee

Mary Lou Conroy
Mary Lou Conroy
Fiscal
Sharon Coutch
Sharon Coutch
Meeting Secretary
James Kennedy
Government Affairs
Kathleen Kokolus, PhD
Program & Logistics
Michael Nemeth, PhD
Education Liaison
Joanna Stanson, MS
Biotech Relations