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Professor Alexander Eggermont is General Director of Gustave Roussy Cancer Institute, Professor of Oncology at the Paris-Sud University, and Professor of Oncological Surgery at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in Holland. He also holds the Honorary Joseph Maisin Honorary Chair of Oncological Surgery at the Louvain Catholic University in Belgium, and an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Essen-Duisburg, Germany. In addition, he serves as the President of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences, and the President of the Cancer Core Europe consortium. In 2015, Prof. Eggermont was elevated to the status of Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. His research specialty is in immunotherapy, the treatment of melanomas and sarcomas in addition to fundamental research in pathogenesis and immunology of tumors.

Professor Melero is Professor of Immunology at the Clinic of the University of Navarra and at the Center for Applied Medical Research of the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. His current areas of research are focused on translational research with cell, gene and monoclonal antibody-mediated strategies for cancer immunotherapies. Dr. Melero has been awarded the BIAL Prize of Medicine, the Conde de Cartagena Award from the Royal Academy of Medicine, Doctor Durantez LAIR Foundation Award and a Cancer Research Institute research award. He has served on the advisory boards of Bristol Myers-Squibb, Roche-Genentech, AstraZeneca, Merck Serono and Boehringer Ingelheim.

Professor Wischhusen is scientific co-founder of CatalYm. He is also the Head of the Section of Experimental Tumor Immunology at the University of Würzburg Medical School, Germany. Prof. Wischhusen’s current research is directed towards tumor-host interactions in ovarian and breast cancer, with a strong focus on tumor-initiating cells and their ability to evade immunosurveillance. Previously, he was a research group leader at the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research in Würzburg. He received his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany in the field of molecular neuro-oncology.

Professor Ralf C. Bargou is Director of the Mainfranken Comprehensive Cancer Center and Chair of the Translational Oncology Department at Würzburg University. He also serves as member of the Board of Directors of the newly formed Bavarian Cancer Research Center. He has a long-standing and successful track record for development of innovative immunotherapies for cancer and was instrumental for the preclinical, translational and clinical development of Blincyto™. Prof. Bargou’s prime research interests are tumor immunology and cancer immunotherapy. He is author of over 130 scientific publications and has been awarded the Paul-Martini prize for outstanding pharmacological research in 2009 and the Inventor of the Year award in 2016 of the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation in Washington D.C..

Professor Reinhard Dummer is Professor of the University of Zürich and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Dermatology in the University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland and is a key thought leader in worldwide cutaneous oncology. Currently, he is heading the Skin Cancer Unit and the Clinical Trial Unit of the Department of Dermatology. Prof. Dummer’s principal research interests are molecular biology, immunology and immunotherapy of cutaneous malignancies, including cutaneous lymphomas and melanomas and has published more than 741 scientific publications. He is a founding and Board Member of the European Association of Dermato-Oncology, ESMO, URPP and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). Prof. Dummer began his medical education in hematology and oncology before successfully completing his dermatology residency in Würzburg, Germany, and Zürich, Switzerland.

Dr. F. Stephen Hodi is the Director of the Melanoma Center and the Center for Immuno-Oncology at Dana-Farber / Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, the Sharon Crowley Martin Chair in Melanoma at Dana- Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His internationally recognized research focuses on gene therapy, the development of immune therapies, and first into human studies for malignant melanoma. Dr. Hodi is a member of ASCO, AACR, the ECOG Melanoma Committee, SITC, the European Academy of Tumor Immunology and a founding member of the Society for Melanoma Research. His clinical investigation efforts have pioneered the use of immune checkpoint blockade and combinatorial approaches to treat cancer.  He has published over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications including articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Oncology and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Professor Thomas Gajewski is Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine at the University of Chicago.  He oversees the melanoma oncology clinic and is the leader of the Immunology and Cancer Program at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prof. Gajewski is committed to investigating and developing new treatments for patients with melanoma, with a special interest in the development of immunotherapies, and is an author/co-author of over 270 scientific publications in the field. He serves as an editor for Cancer Discovery, Journal for Experimental Medicine, and the Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, is on the Program Committees for the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and is past President of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.

Professor Wolf H. Fridman is Professor Emeritus of Immunology at the Paris Descartes University Medical School in Paris, France. He received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Paris. He has been the founder and first Director of the Cordeliers Research Centre, a joint research structure between INSERM, University Paris Descartes, and University Pierre et Marie Curie.

He was also the Head of the Immunology Laboratory of European Hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris. Prof. Fridman’s current research is focused on the immune response in the tumor microenvironment to control clinical outcomes in cervical cancer. He is a world leader in the field of human tumor immunology and has authored over 480 scientific publications in the field.