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24.08.2016 | Meeting Report
The fifteenth International Conference on Progress in Vaccination against Cancer (PIVAC-15), 6–8 October 2015, Tübingen, Germany: looking back on 15 years of progress
verfasst von:
Christopher Shipp, Graham Pawelec
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Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
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PIVAC-15, held 6–8 October 2015 in Tübingen, Germany, marked the 15th anniversary of the PIVAC conference series (
http://www.tati-group.de/pivac), held every year since PIVAC-1 in 2001 in Cambridge, UK. Prominent themes covered during the 2015 PIVAC meeting included therapies which can be used to modulate the immune system or reduce tumour-induced immune suppression, the selection of more appropriate immunotherapy targets, and methods that can be used to improve antigen presentation. In the context of 15 years of “Progress in Vaccination against Cancer”, speakers were asked to consider vaccination in the era of immunomodulatory antibody therapies that have so revolutionised the treatment of several types of cancer over the last few years. …