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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16

8:00 AM–6:00 PM Poster Presentations
  8:00 Opening Remarks and Welcome
Kishor Bhatia, PhD, MRCPath
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
  8:15 P1: Viral Malignancies and an International Perspective
John Ziegler, MD, MSc
University of California, San Francisco, Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Francisco, CA, USA
  9:00 AM–10:00 AM KSHV and Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS)
Moderator: Denise Whitby, PhD
  9:00 P2: Modulation of Cell Signaling and Angiogenesis by KSHV
Blossom Damania, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  9:30 P3: AIDS-Associated Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) at 25: A Model for the Evaluation of Targeted Antiangiogenesis Therapy
Susan Krown, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
  10:00 Break
  10:20 AM–12:05 PM Session 1: Kaposi’s Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8): Pathogenesis of Disease and Pathogenesis-Based Therapy
Moderator: Robert Yarchoan, MD and Andrew Grulich, PhD
  10:20 Activation of Kaposi’s Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) to Lytic Replication by the Cytotoxic Chemotherapy Drugs Vincristine and Doxorubicin
Kazushi Nakano, MD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
  10:35 Identification of Novel NFkB Inhibitors in Primary Effusion Lymphoma Cells
Ethel Cesarman, MD, PhD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
  10:50 Rapamycin is Efficacious Against Primary Effusion Lymphoma (PEL)
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  11:05 Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) Induced by KSHV Early During In Vitro Infection of Target Cells Plays a Role in the Maintenance of Latent Viral Gene Expression
Neelam Sharma-Walla, PhD, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA
  11:20 Intracellular KSHV Load Determines Early Loss of Immune Synapse Components
Laura Adang, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
  11:35 HHV-8 Infects and Replicates in Primary Cultures of Activated B Lymphocytes Through DC-SIGN
Giovanna Rappocciolo, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  11:50 KSHV-LANA Stabilizes c-Myc by Activating ERK1/2 and Inhibiting GSK-3
Jianyong Liu, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
  12:05 PM–1:25 PM Lunch
  1:25 PM–2:30 PM Lymphoma and EBV as a Therapeutic Target
  1:25 Introductory Remarks
Elliott Kieff, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
  1:30 P4: InterLymph: An International Collaboration on the Epidemiology of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
  2:00 P5: Pathogenesis of B-Cell Lymphomas: Implications in the Context of AIDS
Gianluca Gaidano, MD, PhD
Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont
Novara, Italy
  2:30 PM–3:15 PM Session 2: Lymphoma and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV): New Insights and Treatments
Moderator: Kevin Howcroft, PhD, and Sam Mbulaiteye, MD
  2:30 Elevated Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) Expression Preceding the Diagnosis of AIDS-Associated Burkitt's Lymphoma
Marta Epeldegui, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  2:45 Development of a Therapeutic Vaccine for HIV-associated Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Rajiv Khanna, PhD, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
  3:00 EBV Gene Transcription Kinetics During Viral Reactivation by Bortezomib in Cell Lines and in a Clinical Setting
Rachel Bagni, MS, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA
  3:15 Break
  3:30 PM–4:30 PM Session 3: Clinical Management of AIDS-Associated Lymphoma
Moderator: Alexandra Levine, MD, and Richard Ambinder MD, PhD
  3:30 Randomized Phase II Trial of Infusional EPOCH Chemotherapy Given Either Concurrently with or Sequentially Followed by Rituximab in HIV-Associated Lymphoma: AIDS Malignancy Consortium Trial 034
Joseph Sparano, MD, Montefiore-Einstein Cancer Center, Bronx, NY, USA
  3:45 Abbreviated EPOCH-Rituximab Therapy with HAART Suspension is Highly Effective and Tolerable in AIDS-related Lymphoma
Kieron Dunleavy, MD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
  4:00 Dose-Modified Oral Chemotherapy for AIDS-related Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (AR-NHL) in East Africa: Impact on CD4+ Count and HIV-1 Replication; and Retrospective Look at Similar Regimen in Pre-HAART Era in the USA
Walter Mwanda, MBChB, MD, University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences and Kenyatta National Hospital, East Africa-Case Research Collaboration
Nairobi, Kenya
  4:15 Discussion
  4:35 PM–6:00 PM Adjourn to Posters

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17

  8:00 AM–6:00 PM Poster Presentations
  8:10 Administrative Remarks
Geraldina Dominguez, PhD
  8:15 AM–10:15 AM HPV, Disease and Vaccine
Moderator: Joel Palefsky, MD, FRCP
  8:15 P6: HPV Infection and Cancer in Normal and Immunologically Impaired Hosts
Douglas Lowy, MD
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
  8:45 P7: HPV Infection in HIV-Positive Women
Silvia Franceschi, MD
International Agency for Research on Cancer
Lyon, France
  9:15 P8: HPV VLP Vaccine: Clinical Trial Results and Implementation Challenges
Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH, USA
  9:45 P9: Development of a Broadly Protective HPV Vaccine Based on L2
Richard Roden, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
  10:15 Break
  10:35 AM–12:00 PM Session 4: Human Papillomavirus (HPV): Diverse Sites of Infection with Implications to Treatment and Prevention
Moderator: T-C Wu, MD, PhD, and Elizabeth Read-Connole, PhD
  10:35 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection of the Anus is More Prevalent and Diverse than Cervical HPV Infection Among HIV-Infected Women in the Study to Understand the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the Era of Effective Therapy (SUN Study)
Erna Kojic, MD, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
  10:50 Six-Month History of Oral Versus Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection
Gypsyamber D'Souza, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
  11:05 Clinical Profile of HIV-Positive Women with Cervical Cancer in India
Aruna Alahari, MD, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
  11:20 A High Prevalence of High Risk Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Dysplasia in HIV Seropositive Women in a Urban South African Cancer Cohort (SACCC)
Cynthia Firnhaber, MD, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  11:35 Prevalence of Cervical Dysplasia in HIV-Positive Women in Jos, Nigeria
Patricia Agaba, MD, AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria
  11:50 Infrared Coagulator (IRC) for Treatment of High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Neoplasia (HSIL) of the Anal Canal in HIV-Infected Individuals: A Pilot Study (AMC 032)
Elizabeth Stier, MD, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
  12:05 Interaction of HPV Pseudovirus with the Murine Female Genital Tract and Identification of Compounds That Can Potentiate or Inhibit In Vivo Infection
Jeffrey Roberts, PhD, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA
  12:20 PM–1:30 PM
Lunch
  1:30 PM–2:30 PM Inflammation, Immunity and Malignancies
Moderator: Elliott Kieff, MD, PhD
  1:30 P10: A Role for the Chemokine Receptor CXCR4 in the Homing of Kaposi’s Sarcoma–Associated Herpes Virus (KSHV)–Infected Cells
Giovana Tosato, MD
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
  2:00 P11: Liver and Inflammation
Snorri S.Thorgeirsson, MD, PhD
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
  2:30 Break
  2:50 PM–4:30 PM Session 5: Emerging Themes in HIV/AIDS Malignancies
Moderator: Catherine Godfrey, MD, and Mostafa Nokta, MD, PhD
  2:50 Conservation of Virally-Encoded MicroRNAs in the Kaposi's Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) in Primary Effusion Lymphoma Cell Lines and in Patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma or Multicentric Castleman's Disease
Vickie Marshall, MS, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD, USA
  3:05 EBV Encoded Micro RNAs in Endemic and HIV Related Burkitt's Lymphoma
William Harrington, MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
  3:20 Tumor Recognition and Cytolysis by the CD45RA/CD27–Effector Subset of Human VGVD2 T Cells
Andrew Hebbeler, PhD, Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA
  3:35 Association of Cells with Natural Killer (NK) and NKT Immunophenotype with Incident Cancers in HIV-Infected Women
Marek Nowicki, PhD, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  3:50 Risk of Cancers During Interrupted Antiretroviral Therapy: Malignant Outcomes in the SMART Study
Donald Abrams, MD, San Francisco General Hospital, University of San Francisco, CA, USA
  4:05 Detection and Typing of Mucosal and Cutaneous Human Papillomaviruses in AIDS-related Conjunctival Neoplasia in Uganda
Franco Buonaguro, MD, National Cancer Institute Fond, Pascale, Naples, Italy
  4:20 Persistent Kaposi's Sarcoma in a Population Extensively Treated with Antiretroviral Agents and Chemotherapy: Characterizing the Predictors of Clinical Response
Huong Nguyen, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  4:35 PM–6:00 PM Adjourn to Posters

 

 

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