CIIT Seminar Series 2024-2025

• Location: McKinstry Auditorium, 1st Floor, Seattle Children’s Research Institute's B. Wayne Hughes Building, also known as Building Cure, 1920 Terry Ave., Seattle, WA 98101. (Seminars are also streamed via Webex.)
• Day: Fridays
• Time: Presentations from 12 to 12:45 p.m. and Q&A from 12:45 to 1 p.m.
• Physicians may claim Category 2 CME for attending this event.

View the CIIT Seminar Archive

September 20, 2024

Stanley Adoro, PhD
Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator, Experimental Immunology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Presentation: “Stress helps: Hematopoietic cell fate control in cancer and immunity by the unfolded protein response” (no video available) 

October 11, 2024

Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine, Stanford University
Presentation: “Genome Editing of Stem Cells to Create Cell Based Therapies for Genetic and Non-Genetic Diseases” (Video, 1:00:56)

December 20, 2024

Jennifer Adair, PhD
Associate Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and The Fleischauer Family Endowed Chair in Gene Therapy Translation
Presentation: "Science and Medicine and Patients, Oh My: Translating Blood Stem Cell Gene Therapies for Everyone" (Video, 1:15:48)

January 25, 2025

Alice Long, PhD
Associate Member; Principal Investigator, Long Lab, Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute
Presentation: "Paths to CD8 T-cell Exhaustion in T1D" (Video 1:01:46)