CIMT 2018: Pushing frontiers in cancer immunotherapy — Report on the 16^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy

ABSTRACT

The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT), Europe’s largest meeting series of its kind, took place in Mainz, Germany from 15–17 May, 2018. Cutting-edge advancements in cancer immunotherapy were discussed among more than 700 scientists under the motto “Pushing Frontiers in Cancer Immunotherapy”. This meeting report is a summary of some of the CIMT 2018 highlights.

Keywords:

• CIMT
• cancer immunotherapy
• tumor vaccination
• cellular therapy
• combination therapy
• tumor microenvironment
• checkpoint blockade
• personalized therapy

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Karen Chu for proofreading the report, and all the speakers of CIMT2018, whose lectures formed the basis of this report.