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Friday, October 11th


6:45am - 7:45am
CME Breakfast Symposium:
Melanoma Insights: Focus on High-Risk Early-Stage to Advanced Disease Management

Supported by Merck & Co. Inc.


7:00am - 5:00pm

Registration Open


8:00am-10:20am

Plenary Session 1
Developmental Immunotherapy (Cellular Immunotherapy, Vaccines, & New Checkpoints)
Chair: Allison Betof Warner

8:00am - 8:20am

Martin Wermke

ACTengine IMA203 TCR-T targeting PRAME in PD1 refractory metastatic melanoma – Clinical Update.

TIL therapy in metastatic melanoma in the era of modern immunotherapy; real-world experience.

8:20am - 8:35am

Jacob Schachter

8:35am - 8:50am

Evalstotug (BA3071): a potent conditionally active biologic (CAB) anti-CTLA-4 antibody designed to enable high exposures, extended dosing, and reduced immune-mediated toxicity

Bill Boyle

8:50am - 9:10am

Understanding the impact of prior treatment on TIL therapy: from bedside back to bench

Stephanie Goff

9:10am - 9:30am

Engineering a potent T cell response against melanoma

Christina Puig-Saus

9:30am - 9:45am

Efficacy and safety of RP1 combined with nivolumab in patients with anti–PD-1–failed melanoma from the IGNYTE clinical trial

Gino In

9:45am - 10:00am

KEYMAKER-U02 Substudy 02D: Lenvatinib (Len) + Coformulated Quavonlimab And Pembrolizumab (Qmab/Pembro) or Len + Pembro For Melanoma Brain Metastasis

Paolo Ascierto

10:00am - 10:20am

A Pilot Trial of Lifileucel for Melanoma Brain Metastases: Feasibility and Safety

Allison Betof Warner


10:20am - 10:40am

Refreshment Break


10:40am - 12:40pm

Plenary Session 2
Immune Microenvironment & Immunotherapy Resistance
Chair: Roberta Zappasodi

10:40am - 11:00am

Spatial location of gene expression signatures associated with resistance to immunotherapies

James Wilmott

11:00am - 11:15am

Regulatory T cells inhibit CD8+ TRM-like cells during the early stages of tumor immune escape

Jason Williams

11:15am - 11:35am

Translational insights from SWOG S1616: Stratification of patients with melanoma resistant to anti-PD-1

Katie Campbell

11:35am - 11:50am

Pharmacologic Modulation of Pituitary-Derived Prolactin Impacts Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy of Melanoma in a Preclinical Model

Mark Gregory

11:50am - 12:05pm

An HOXD13-CD73 gene regulatory axis promoting melanoma immune evasion

Pietro Berico

12:05pm - 12:25pm

Nociceptor neurons control anti-melanoma immunity

Tuany Eichwald

12:25pm - 12:40pm

Combining FAK Inhibition with the RAF/MEK Clamp Avutometinib Overcomes Resistance to BRAF/MEK Inhibitors and Immune Checkpoint Blockade in BRAFV600E Mutant Cutaneous Melanoma

Simone Lubrano


12:40pm - 2:00pm

Lunch- Exhibit and Poster Viewing


2:00pm - 3:55pm

Plenary Session 3
Non-Cutaneous Melanomas
Chair: Carla Daniela Robles-Espinosa

2:00pm - 2:20pm

Exploring the genetic landscape of Acral Melanoma from Latin American patients

Patricia Possik

2:20pm - 2:35pm

CK2 activation as a therapeutic target in acral melanoma

Ronaldo Perez-Lorenzo

2:35pm - 2:50pm

Tissue-Specific Inflammation Induces Cell State Plasticity with Oncogenic Addiction in Mucosal Melanoma

Hanlin Zeng

2:50pm - 3:05pm

Novel Mouse Models for Uveal Melanoma

Xiaonan Xu

3:05pm - 3:20pm

GDF15 reprograms the microenvironment to drive the development of uveal melanoma liver metastases

Sathya Neelature Sriramareddy

3:20pm - 3:35pm

Modeling Primary GNAQ-Driven Uveal Melanoma in Adult Zebrafish

Speaker TBD

3:35pm - 3:55pm

Mechanisms of dormancy and metastatic growth in uveal melanoma

Julius Yevdash


3:55pm - 4:15pm

Refreshment Break


4:15pm - 6:00pm

Concurrent Session 4A
Melanoma Metastasis
Chair: Inna Smalley

4:15pm - 4:35pm

Interferon-γ instructs the anti-tumor response in metastatic leptomeninges

Jan Remsik

4:35pm - 4:50pm

The role of intra-tumoral bacterial signal and distant microbiota in brain metastasis

Golnaz Morad

4:50pm - 5:05pm

Dissecting the Role of the Immune Microenvironment in Melanoma Bone Metastasis

Marija Simic

5:05pm - 5:20pm

Intratumor heterogeneity unravels organ-induced cellular programs favoring melanoma metastasis.

Panagiotis Karras

5:20pm - 5:35pm

Therapeutic strategies to induce dormancy of melanoma disseminated cancer cells

Maria Sosa

5:35pm - 5:55pm

Dissecting the biomechanical role(s) of the plantar skin microenvironment in driving acral melanoma metastases

Vito Rebecca


4:15pm - 6:00pm

Concurrent Session 4B
Epidemiology, Prevention, & Early Detection
Chair: Sancy Leachman

4:15pm - 4:20pm

Welcome and Introduction

Sancy Leachman

4:20pm - 4:40pm

Computer vision based approaches for melanoma early detection: early lessons about algorithm bias and usefulness

Albert Chiou

4:40pm - 4:55pm

Effect of chemokine (CK) and CK-receptor (CKR) gene variants on risk for developing multiple primary melanoma

Irene Orlow

4:55pm - 5:10pm

Time trends in the incidence of multiple primary melanomas in Australia

Anne Cust

5:10pm - 5:25pm

Sun-Protective Behaviors Among Skin Cancer Survivors: A National Health Interview Study

Hannah Verma

5:25pm - 5:40pm

Discovery and validation of an ancillary genomic test of malignancy for primary melanocytic tumors

Ismael Vergara Correa

5:40pm - 6:00pm

Saturation genome editing of melanoma predisposition genes

David Adams


6:00pm - 7:30pm

Poster Viewing Reception