UQDI Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Anna Vilgelm (Vanderbilt)

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 03 March 2021

Time:

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Room:

via Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/81565209916

UQ Location:

Translational Research Institute (Princess Alexandra Hospital)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: UQ Diamantina Institute Seminar Series
Guest speaker Assistant Professor Anna Vilgelm from Vanderbilt.
Anna will be presenting Modulating tumour secretome to improve anti-tumour immunity and therapeutic responses.

Wednesday 3 March, 9:30-10:30am, via Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/81565209916
Email Jessica Iannotti for the Zoom password.

Anna’s Bio: A/Professor Anna Vilgelm is a cancer biologist with experience in basic and translational studies. The main focus of A/Professor Vilgelm's research is on pre-clinical development of effective strategies for metastatic cancer treatment. Currently, Vilgelm laboratory investigates ways to stimulate anti-tumour immunity and augment immunotherapy responses by inducing “hot”, immune-cell enriched, tumour microenvironment. In addition, A/Professor Vilgelm’s group is working with a variety of pre-clinical models including 3D organoid cultures of patient's tumour cells, patient-derived xenografts, immunocompetent and humanised models.