i-Target 2.0
Immunotargeting of Cancer: International doctoral program 2023 to 2026
Malignant diseases represent an unmet medical challenge with a huge social and economical impact. Early diagnosis and optimized operative, medical and radiotherapeutic treatments often cure early stage cancers. The prognosis for many patients with advanced-stage diseases, however, remains dismal. An important achievement of the last decade is the use of the body's own immune system to treat patients. The potential of immunotherapies has been demonstrated impressively through the use and approval of specific antibodies directed against tumor-associated antigens.
Tumor immunotherapy is currently subject of intense scientific and clinical development. The requirements of well trained scientists in this research field is rapidly increasing, both in industry and academy. There are currently no structured training programs in Germany to train prospective scientists specifically in the field of immunotherapies. To fill this gap, a team of ten bavarian professors under the lead of the LMU Munich (speaker: Prof. Endres) have joined forces to investigate innovative immune therapies and to train talented PhD-students in this highly competitive research field.
The training program, includes weekly seminars, quarterly workshops and annual conferences. A special character of the program is the intense cooperation with the industry and international secondments as an integral part of the PhD-projects.
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Dear i-Target members,
We are pleased to invite you to this year's i-Target Method Workshop, which will take place on November 20th and 21st at the Haus der bayerischen Landwirtschaft in Herrsching.
To provide a more personalized experience, the workshop will be conducted in two small groups, allowing participants to engage directly with the instructors. Both workshops will run parallel, with everyone coming together during coffee and lunch breaks. Please choose between:
- Workshop 1: Panel Design and Compensation (Basic to Advanced), led by Dr. Lisa Richter (BD). Dr. Richter will tailor the content to participants needs, including optimizing your panels in real time.
- Workshop 2: Python for Beginners and scRNA-seq, taught by Dr. Christophe Jung (Gene Center). This workshop will cover the theoretical principles of Python and scRNA-seq data analysis with an opportunity to apply them to the analysis of an scRNA-seq dataset using the Python package Scanpy.
Please register by Monday, September 30th using the Google form below.
We're looking forward to two days of learning, collaboration and great conversation. We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Mila (AG Kobold) and Alejandra (AG Hopfner)