The 2020 ASGCT Excellence in Research Awards will be presented on Wednesday, May 13, during the George Stamatoyannopoulos Memorial Lecture to the following researchers:
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Aisha AlJanahi NIH |
Malin Akerblom Lund University |
Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic University of Oxford |
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Zachary Elmore Duke University |
Annika Frank Paul-Ehrlich-Institut |
Kathrin Haake Institute of Experimental Hematology |
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Natalia Izotova University College of London |
Aurelien Jacob San Raffaele Telethon Institute |
Ibrahim Kurt Massachusetts General Hospital |
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Anoushka Lotun Horae Gene Therapy Center, |
Yogendra Rajawat Fred Hutchinson |
Jana Rajova Lund University |
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Afrooz Rashnonejad Abigail Wexner |
Eliana Ruggiero San Raffaele Scientific Institute |
Blake Rust Fred Hutchinson |
The 2020 ASGCT Meritorious and Underrepresented Minority Travel Awards will be presented during the respective presentations of the awardees at the 23rd Annual Meeting:
| Hadia Abdelaal | Mania Ackermann | Felix Alonso-Valenteen | Motahareh Arjomandnejad | Joan Bertolin |
| Tierra Bobo | Christopher Bourne | Karen Bulaklak | Mara Cardenas | D. Cesana |
| Chun-Yu Chen | Beatrice Cianciotti | McKensie Collins | Colin Cook | Isabelle Cote |
| Rebecca Cottman | Juliette Delhove | Neha Dhoke | Xiaozhe Ding | Zachary Elmore |
| Helena Escobar | Giacomo Frati | Christos Georgiadis | Adriana Gonzalez Sandoval | Veronica Gough |
| David Goertsen | Beatrice Greco | Julian Grünewald | Maryna Ivanchenko | Lovro Jalšić |
| Martin Kang | Afroditi Katsarou | Megan Keiser | Swapna Kollu | Stefanos Koutsoukos |
| Jennifer Kwon | Gauri Lamture | Nerea Lasarte Zabaleta | Jooyoung Lee | Myriam Lemmens |
| Diego Leon-Rico | Chang Li | Colin Lim | Manel Llado Santaeularia | Anne Maguire |
| Francesco Manfredi | Sara Marcó | Laura Marquez Loza | Anna Maurer | Katie McKenna |
| Katharina Meijboom | Ryland Mortlock | Miguel Muñoz-Alía | Motomu Nakatake | Saisha Nalawade |
| Rui Nobre | Adrian Oliver | Eleni Panagioti | So Hyun Park | Giulia Pavani |
| Mara Pavel-Dinu | Yewande Pearse | Magalie Penaud-Budloo | Brooke Prinzing | Riccardo Privolizzi |
| Shuquan Rao | Arun Raturi | Sripriya Ravindra Kumar | Martin Rodriguez | Theodore Roth |
| Alex Ryckman | Ludovica Santi | Andrew Satterlee | Andrea Schejtman | Jessica Schneller |
| Rahamthulla Shaik | Weiheng Su | Toloo Taghian | Patrizia Tornabene | Ivana Trapani |
| Giulia Unali | Sriram Vaidyanathan | Leah Venturoni | Anne Vonada | Jessica Wagner |
| Amy Walker | Jiaming Wang | Yi Wang | Ryan Wong | Yueze Yang |
| Wei-Hsi (Ariel) Yeh | Marco Zahn | Chen Zhang |
Tugce Akcan—University of Wisconsin-Madison
Enhancement of Adeno-Associated Virus Mediated Insulin Gene Therapy Using Teniposide in Diabetic Mice
Douglas Brown—University of Alberta
Selective Ablation of Solid Tumors using a P53-Targeted FAST-LNP Gene Therapy
Janine Buonato—Arcellx
Novel CAR-T Cell Therapy that Can be Activated, Silenced, and Reprogrammed In Vivo with Soluble Protein Adapters in a Dose Dependent Manner
Alexandra Burr—Rutgers University
Circadian-Triggered Gene Therapy for Hypoparathyroidism: A Step Toward Physiological Gene Switches
Maria Chen—Rice University
Characterization of Immune Response Against AAV in Immune Deficient Mice
Su Jin Choi—Duke University School of Medicine
A Combination Immunosuppression Treatment with Bortezomib and an Anti-CD20 mAb Enables Successful Re-Administration of AAV8 Vector in Mice
Carlo Ciatto—Voyager Therapeutics
Analytical Testing Strategy for AAV Vectors Produced by the Baculovirus/Sf9 System
Pete Clarner—Biogen
Development of a One-Step RT-ddPCR Method to Determine the Expression and Potency of AAV-Based Gene Therapy
Isabelle Côté—University of Florida
AAV.PLP Stops Disease and Prevents Epitope Spreading in a Model of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Juan Antinao Diaz—UCL
Dual AAV Gene Therapy for Inherited Childhood Epilepsy, Dravet Syndrome
Lamis Eldjerou—Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Leukapheresis Guidelines and Tisagenlecleucel Manufacturing in Patients Less Than 3 Years of Age with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Lauren Fong—Fate Therapeutics
Generation of a Novel Single Cell-Derived Multi-Engineered Master Pluripotent Cell Line as a Renewable Source of Off-The-Shelf Multi-Antigen-Targeting NK Cell Immunotherapy for Multiple Myeloma
Soragia-Athina Gkazi—UCL
Recombinant T Cell Receptor Immunity Against Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Following Disruptive Base Editing of Endogenous T Cell Receptor
Yao Gong—UCLA
Acoustofluidic Sonoporation Gene Delivery for Cancer Immunotherapy
Matthew Hartmann—Weill Cornell Medical College
Adenovirus Capsid-Based Anti-Fentanyl Vaccine
Sukanya Iyer—University of Massachusetts Medical School
Therapeutic Correction of LGMD2G Using CRISPR-Cas9 Nucleases
Min Jee Jang—Caltech
Method for High-Throughput, In Situ Characterization of AAV Variant Pools in Intact Tissue Using Ultrasensitive Sequential FISH
Giridhara Jayandharan—Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Suicide Gene Therapy with Exosome Associated AAV6 Vectors Loaded with an Inducible Caspase 9 Gene is Therapeutic in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Models In Vivo
Julia Joo—Seattle Children's Research Institute
Using Humanized W-41 NSG Mice to Test the Safety and Efficacy of Intraosseous Delivery of Platelet-Specific Factor VIII-Lentiviral Vectors to Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells as an In Vivo Gene Therapy for Hemophilia
Megan Manson—Seattle Children's Research Institute
Varying Ultrasound Parameters Allowed Specific Targeting in Liver Hepatocytes and Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells Respectively for Ultrasound Mediated Gene Delivery in Mice
Kumi Mesaki—University Health Network, University of Toronto
CRISPR-Based Transcriptional Activation of the IL-10 Gene in the Donor Lung for Transplantation
Li Ou—University of Minnesota
Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of the PS Gene Editing System for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I
Rachel Putman—Yale University
A Nanoparticle Mediated Genome Editing Technique for Single-Cell Murine Embryos
Joseph Rainaldi—UCSD
CRISPR/Cas9 Mediated Genetic Correction of Hematopoietic Stem Cells from Patients with Friedreich's Ataxia
Paul Ranum—The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Evolution of Modified AAV in Rhesus Macaque Brain
Dimah Saade—NIH
Review of Safety and Interim Analysis of Efficacy in the First in Human Intrathecal Gene Transfer Trial for Giant Axonal Neuropathy
Barbara Sanders—Uniqure
Generation of a DuoBac Expression System for Robust and High Quality AAV Production
Madeleine Sitton—Duke University
Targeted Genomic Integration to Restore the NF1 Coding Sequence in Models of Neurofibromatosis Type I (NF1)
Calvin Stephens—Stanford University
Targeting Various Genomic Loci using AAV-GeneRide Results in Similar Genome Editing Efficiencies but May Affect Translation of the Chimeric mRNA Transcripts
Aditya Venkatesh—Stoke Therapeutics
Antisense Oligonucleotide Mediated Increase of OPA1 Expression Using TANGO Technology for the Treatment of Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
Hongjie Wang—University of Washington
In Vivo Transduction of Mobilized HSCs with an HDAd5/35++ Vector Expressing Gamma-Globin from a 26kb Beta-Globin LCR Cures Thalassemia in a Mouse Model
Yifan Wang—TScan Therapeutics
Comprehensive Identification of Tumor-Reactive TCRs and Cognate Targets for Novel TCR T-Cell Cancer Therapies
Jia Yao—Emory University
Cellular Innate Immune Mechanisms Mediating Long-Term Rejection of Disseminated Lung Tumors after Systemic Therapy with Oncolytic Adenovirus
Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by (5 R13 TR 002411 - 02) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Abstract Notifications Sent
April 6, 2020
Abstracts Released
April 28, 2020
23rd ASGCT Annual Meeting
May 12 – 15, 2020
Use the ASGCT app on your mobile device to build your schedule, read the abstracts (released on April 28), and guide your way through the Hynes Convention Center.
Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02115
