The Pezcoller Lecture
at NIBIT Annual Meeting
The NIBIT is the italian network for for cancer biotherapy. It was established in 2004 to satisfy the need of creating a cooperative network,, that would gather and coordinate the activities of various Italian groups involved in cancer biotherapy and immunotherapy.
Since 2020, the Pezcoller Foundation participates in the NIBIT Annual Meeting with the Pezcoller Keynote Lecture:
- 2020 – Dr. Andrew Pardoll “Applying the MANAFEST platform to analyze neoantigen-specific and coronavirus-specific T cell responses at the clonal level”
- 2021 – Dr. Nicholas P. Restifo “An engineered IL-2 partial agonist promotes CD8+ T cell stemness”
- 2022 – Dr. Douglas Hanahan “Mechanism and therapeutic targeting of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment”
- 2023 – Dr. Alberto Mantovani “Innate Immunity, Inflammation and Cancer: double edged swords”
- 17-19 ottobre 2024, Palermo – Dr. Dmitry Gabrilovich “Myeloid cells in cancer: old challenges and new opportunities”
- 23-25 ottobre 2025, Livorno – Dr. Marco Colonna “Harnessing innate immune receptors in cancer and neurodegeneration”
- 14-16 ottobre 2026, Trento – coming soon

