We invite cancer patients, relatives, and caregivers to join our patient webinar, where we will explain the basics of immunotherapy, discuss current challenges, and highlight how patient involvement is essential to improving future treatments.
🗓 When: Thursday, 23 April 2026
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM
The 1-hour webinar will consist of three topics (10-15 minutes each), followed by a question-and-answer slot.
Agenda
- The Immune System – Uzma Hassan
(CRCL – The Lyon Immunotherapy for Cancer Laboratory (LICL), France) - Immunotherapy: Treatments and Cancer Types – Gianmarco Contino
(University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) - Immuno-models, COST Action, future activities & the role of patients –
Eva Martínez Balibrea
(Chair of the COST Action; Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain)
&
Leticia Oliveira-Ferrer
(Vice-Chair of the COST Action; University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)
🎤 Moderator:
Silke Vogel (Patient Advocate)
🌍 Who we are
We are IMMUNO-model, a European research consortium working under the umbrella of a COST Action. Our objective is to contribute to the development of more effective and less toxic immunotherapies by advancing preclinical immuno-models that better reflect patient reality.
Our Patient Engagement Task Force aims to bring these concepts to as many patients as possible. Interaction with patients is essential to help us shape relevant research questions, refine our models, and guide future research topics.
Teams link: 11th IMMUNO-model webinar: Patient Webinar: Immunotherapy in Cancer – How It Works and Why Challenges Remain | Partecipazione alla riunione | Microsoft Teams
Registration form link: https://forms.gle/W8J9rHn6QqTKccHz6