CIIT Seminar Series 2025-2026
- 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, unless otherwise noted.
- Physicians may claim Category 2 CME for attending this event.
September 12, 2025
Autumn G. York, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Washington
Hanna H. Gray Faculty Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Presentation: Decoding the Immunological Lipidome (no video available)
October 17, 2025
Akshay Krishnamurty, PhD
Principal Scientist and Group Leader, Discovery Oncology Department, Genentech
Presentation: Modulating Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts to Enhance Anti-Tumor Immunity (no video available)
November 7, 2025
Stuart Turvey, MBBS, DPhil, FRCPC
Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology, University of British Columbia
Presentation: Learning from Our Patients: Discovery of New Human Inborn Errors of Immunity
December 19, 2025
Nicholas Riley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Presentation: Investigating the Immunomodulatory Siglec-Sialic Acid Axis Through Glycoproteomics (no video available)
January 30, 2026
Jason Price, PhD
Principal Investigator, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Presentation: Antigen Assimilating Multispecific T Cell Engagers
February 13, 2026
Lawrence Fong, MD
Science Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center; Professor, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division; Bezos Family Distinguished Scholar in Immunotherapy, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Presentation: Defining Determinants of Response to Cancer Immunotherapy
March 2026
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Maternal Regulation of Infant Immunity
Meghan Koch, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
For more information on the CIIT Seminar Series, please visit www.seattlechildrens.org….Date: Friday, Mar 20, 2026 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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
April 2026
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Metabolic Constraints of Cancer Cell Proliferation
Lucas Sullivan, PhD
Associate Professor, Human Biology Division, Affiliate Associate Professor, Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
For more information on the CIIT Seminar Series, please visit www.seattlechildrens.org….Date: Friday, Apr 17, 2026 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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
May 2026
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Mechanisms of Inborn Errors of Immunity and Precision Medicine
Elena Hsieh, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Allergy/Immunology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
For more information on the CIIT Seminar Series, please visit www.seattlechildrens.org….Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Soundgarden, Seattle Children’s Research Institute's Jack R. MacDonald Building, 1900 Ninth Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
June 2026
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Overcoming Barriers to Adoptive T-cell Therapy for Cancer
Shivani Srivastava, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
For more information on the CIIT Seminar Series, please visit www.seattlechildrens.org….Date: Friday, Jun 12, 2026 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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