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.

View the CIIT Seminar Archive

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 20, 2026

Meghan Koch, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Presentation: Maternal Regulation of Infant Immunity (no video available)

April 17, 2026

Lucas Sullivan, PhD
Associate Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Presentation: Metabolic Constraints of Cancer Cell Proliferation (no video available)

May 15, 2026

Elena Hsieh, MD
Chief of the Division of Allergy & Immunology, Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine; Director, Center for Immune Dysregulation, Children's Medical Center Dallas
Presentation: Mechanisms of Inborn Errors of Immunity and Precision Medicine (no video available)

June 12, 2026

Shivani Srivastava, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Presentation: Overcoming barriers to adoptive T cell therapy for cancer (no video available)