We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Cancer Immunotherapy which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday September 7, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on ThursdaySeptember 11, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Cancer Immunotherapy. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Tumor Immune Escape and immunosuppression

2. Primary and Acquired Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy

3. Targeting Cell Death for Cancer Immunotherapy

4. Cytokine, Antibody and Cell Engineering in Cancer Immunotherapy

5. Cancer Vaccines

6. Integrative Strategies in Cancer Immunotherapy

7. New Approaches to Cancer Immunotherapy

Invited Speakers:

Gabrielle Belz, The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute

Xuetao Cao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Sidonia Fagarasam, Kyoto University

Yangxin Fu, Tsinghua  University

Thomas Gajewski, University of Chicago

Philip Greenberg, University of Washington

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Guido Kroemer, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers

Judy Lieberman, Harvard Medical School

Jason Luke, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and University of Pittsburgh

Ira Mellman, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Arlene Sharpe, Harvard Medical School

Zeming Zhang, Peking University

Laurence Zitvogel, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus

Weiping Zou, University of Michigan

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in September, 2026.