Preliminary Scientific Program

AP-SciBio 2027 × WIC APAC 2027

with the Thai Immunology Annual Meeting

25–27 February 2027Bangkok, Thailand

Program at a glance. Speaker confirmations, presentation titles and sponsor details may be updated as the scientific program is finalized.

AP-SciBio WIC APAC Thai Immunology / AAIAT Joint program

Day 1

Thursday, 25 February 2027

Immunology foundations, tumor ecosystems and precision oncology

07:00–08:15Registration Open

08:15–08:30Opening Ceremony

Ballroom A

Main scientific program

08:30–10:00

Thai Immunology / AAIATSession I

08:30–09:00Kiat Ruxrungtam — Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

09:00–09:30Alfred Cheng — The Chinese University of Hong Kong

09:30–10:00Kazuyo Moro — The University of Osaka IFReC and RIKEN IMS, Japan

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:30–11:40

Thai Immunology / AAIATSession II

10:30–11:00James McCluskey — Allogeneic CAR MAIT Cells and Immunotherapy

11:00–11:20Speaker to be announced

11:20–11:40Industry-sponsored presentation

11:40–12:10

Joint programLunch SymposiumSponsor to be confirmed

12:10–13:30

IntermissionLunch

13:30–15:10

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession I: Tumor Ecosystems, Plasticity & Precision Oncology

13:30–14:10Keynote I: Joe Poh Sheng Yeong — Singapore General Hospital

14:10–14:30Ramanuj DasGupta — CRUK Scotland Institute and Genome Institute of Singapore

14:30–14:50Ruby Huang — National Taiwan University

14:50–15:10Thai speaker to be announced

15:10–15:40

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

15:40–16:30

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession I continued

15:40–16:00Thai speaker to be announced

16:00–16:20Industry-sponsored presentation

16:20–16:30Short talks selected from abstracts

Ballroom B

Parallel immunology forum

13:30–15:00

AAIAT × NRCTInnate Immunity Forum

13:30–13:50Tanapat Palaga

13:50–14:40Five short presentations — 10 minutes each

14:40–15:00Industry-sponsored presentation

15:00–15:30

IntermissionCoffee Break

15:30–16:30

AAIATInnate Immunity Forum continued

15:30–15:50Industry-sponsored presentation

15:50–16:30Four short oral presentations — 10 minutes each

16:30–18:00Poster Session & Networking

18:30–21:30Gala Dinner

Day 2

Friday, 26 February 2027

Spatial omics, AI, computational tissue mapping and therapeutic response

Ballroom A

AP-SciBio Symposium

08:30–10:00

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession II: Spatial Omics, AI & Computational Tissue Mapping

08:30–08:50Thai speaker to be announced

08:50–09:10Quan Nguyen — QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

09:10–09:30Thai speaker to be announced

09:30–09:50Chin Wee Tan — Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland & WEHI

09:50–10:00Short talks selected from abstracts

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:30–11:30

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession II continued

10:30–11:10Keynote II: Arutha Kulasinghe — Wesley Research Institute

11:10–11:30Industry-sponsored presentation

11:30–12:00

Joint programLunch SymposiumMiltenyi Biotec

12:00–13:30

IntermissionLunch

13:30–14:50

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession III: Spatial Immunology & Therapeutic Response

13:30–13:50Thai speaker to be announced

13:50–14:10Anand D. Jeyasekharan — Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore

14:10–14:30Thai speaker to be announced

14:30–14:50Sizun Jiang — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research

14:50–15:20

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

15:20–16:30

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession III continued

15:20–16:00Keynote III: Rong Fan — Yale University

16:00–16:20Industry-sponsored presentation

16:20–16:30Short talks selected from abstracts

16:30–18:00

NetworkingPoster Session & Networking

Ballroom B

WIC APAC Young Investigators

13:00–13:30

Meet the EditorMichael Lotze, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

13:30–15:00

WIC APACYoung Investigators Session ISix presentations, 15 minutes each

15:00–15:20

IntermissionCoffee Break

15:20–16:50

WIC APACYoung Investigators Session IISix presentations, 15 minutes each

17:00–19:00

NetworkingPoster Session & Networking

18:30–21:30Speaker Dinner

Day 3

Saturday, 27 February 2027

Cancer immunotherapy and immune-mediated disease

Ballroom A

WIC APAC Symposium

08:30–10:00

WIC APAC SymposiumSession I

08:30–09:00James L. Gulley — National Cancer Institute, USA

09:00–09:30Jie Wang — Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China

09:30–10:00Bernard Fox — Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, USA

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:30–11:40

WIC APAC SymposiumSession II

10:30–11:00Hiroaki Ikeda — Novel Cancer Immunotherapy Controls Tumors with Heterogeneity

11:00–11:20Cheng Sun — Spatial Immune Intelligence in Cancer: Mapping NK-cell Checkpoints to Predict and Overcome Immunotherapy Resistance

11:20–11:40Industry-sponsored presentation

11:40–12:10

Joint programLunch SymposiumSponsor to be confirmed

12:10–13:30

IntermissionLunch

13:30–15:00

WIC APAC SymposiumSession III

13:30–14:00Michael Lotze — Aging, Immunity and Cancer

14:00–14:20Speaker to be announced

14:20–14:40Speaker to be announced

14:40–15:00Industry-sponsored presentation

15:00–15:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

15:30–16:30

Joint programClosing Ceremony

Ballroom B

Parallel immunotherapy forum

13:30–13:50

WIC APACIndustry-sponsored presentation

13:50–15:00

AAIAT × TTCI × NRCT × NSTDACancer Immunotherapy Forum

13:50–14:10Nattiya Hirankarn

14:10–15:00Five short presentations — 10 minutes each

15:00–15:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

AP-SciBio 2027 × WIC APAC 2027

Thursday, 25 February 2027

Ballroom A

Ballroom B

Friday, 26 February 2027

Ballroom A

Ballroom B

Saturday, 27 February 2027

Ballroom A

Ballroom B

AP-SciBio2027 × WIC APAC2027

& Thai Immunology Annual Meeting