Craig H. Bassing, Ph.D.

Dr. Bassing is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Scientific expertise: lymphocyte development, antigen receptor gene diversification, DNA damage response, transcriptional and post-transcriptional protein regulation, cancer, autoimmunity

Gabrielle T. Belz, Ph.D., D.V.Sc.

Dr. Belz is a NHMRC Research Fellow at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute in the Faculty of Medicine
Brisbane St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Scientific expertise: innate lymphoid cells, antigen presentation, mucosal immunity, tumorigenesis, microbiome, viral and molecular immunology

Todd A. Fehniger, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Fehniger is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Laboratory Director of the Center for Gene and Cellular Immunotherapy, and Director of the Biological Therapy Core Facility at Washington University School of Medicine where he leads a research program focused on basic, translational, and early phase clinical research related to natural killer cells.
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Scientific expertise: human immunology, clinical trials, innate immunity, natural killer cell biology, NK cell-based therapeutics, innate lymphoid cell (ILC) biology, cytokines, cancer immunotherapy

Sarah L. Gaffen, Ph.D.

Dr. Gaffen is the Gerald P. Rodnan Professor in the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, and Director of Basic Rheumatology Research at the University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Scientific expertise: IL-17, autoimmunity, cytokine signaling, cytokine receptors, fungal immunity

Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D.

Dr. Joyce is a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, and the Dorothy & Theodore Austin Chair in Pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a Research Career Scientist in the Department of Veterans Affairs
Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Scientific expertise: MHC class I, minor histocompatibility antigens, NKT cells, innate-like lymphocytes, T cell receptors, antigen presentation, bacterial and viral immunity

Cathryn R. Nagler, Ph.D.

Dr. Nagler is the Bunning Family Professor in the Biological Sciences Division, the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College at the University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Scientific expertise: microbiome, food allergy, mucosal immunity, vaccines, autoimmunity

Edward J. Pearce, Ph.D.

Dr. Pearce is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Bloomberg Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Scientific expertise: type 2 immunity, tumor progression, metabolism, allergy, parasite immunity, autoimmunity

Dana J. Philpott, Ph.D.

Dr. Philpott is a Professor and Associate Chair, Research, in the Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Scientific expertise: Crohn’s disease, colorectal cancer, intestinal homeostasis, stromal cells, gut microbiome, animal models, metabolic dysfunction