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, innate immunity, 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

08:30–09:00Alfred Cheng — Targeting Macrophage Efferocytosis to Metabolically Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy — School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

09:00–09:30James McCluskey — Allogeneic CAR MAIT Cells and Immunotherapy — The University of Melbourne and Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID), Australia

09:30–10:00Kazuyo Moro — Why Does Appendectomy Protect Against Ulcerative Colitis? — The University of Osaka Immunology Frontier Research Center and RIKEN IMS, Japan

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:30–11:40

Thai Immunology / AAIATSession II

10:30–11:00Tanapat Palaga — Epigenetic Regulation of Macrophage Function — Faculty of Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

11:00–11:20Ponpan Matangkasombut — Single-cell Immune Profiling in Dengue Disease Pathogenesis and Regional Diversity — Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand

11:20–11:40Industry-sponsored presentation — 10x Genomics

11:40–12:10

Joint programLunch SymposiumOmicsphere

12:10–13:20

IntermissionLunch

13:20–15:00

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

13:20–13:45Chanitra Thuwajit — Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

13:45–14:10Ramanuj DasGupta — CRUK-Scotland Institute, UK and Genome Institute of Singapore

14:10–14:35Ruby Huang — National Taiwan University

14:35–15:00Somponnat Sampattavanich — Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

15:00–15:45

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

15:45–16:40

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession I continued

15:45–16:10Joe Poh Sheng Yeong — Singapore General Hospital

16:10–16:30Industry-sponsored presentation — Standard BioTools

16:30–16:40Short talks selected from abstracts — 5 minutes each

16:40–18:40

Joint programPoster Session & Networking

Ballroom B

Parallel immunology forum

13:20–14:30

AAIAT × NRCTInnate Immunity Forum

13:20–13:30Tanapat Palaga — Targeting Innate Immune Cells for Therapy: Overview — Faculty of Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

13:30–13:45Patcharee Ritprajak — Deciphering Metabolic Pathways Regulating Tolerogenic Dendritic Cell Function — Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

13:45–14:00Asada Leelahavanichkul — Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

14:00–14:10Naunpun Sangphech — Differential Responses of Lung Air–Liquid Interface Cultures and Monocytes to PM2.5 — Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Thammasat University, Thailand

14:10–14:20Chidchamai Kewcharoenwong — Air Pollution & Metabolic Health: The Inflammatory Link Between PM2.5 and Diabetes — Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

14:20–14:30Takashi Kobayashi — The CCL9–CCR1 Axis Limits Neuroinflammation through the Regulation of Inflammatory Chemokine Responses in EAE — Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Japan

14:30–15:10

AAIATShort Oral Session

14:30–15:10Four short oral presentations — 10 minutes each

15:10–15:45

IntermissionCoffee Break

16:40–18:40

Joint programPoster Session & Networking

18:50–21:30Gala Dinner

Day 2

Friday, 26 February 2027

Spatial omics, AI, computational tissue mapping, therapeutic response and cancer immunotherapy

Ballroom A

AP-SciBio Symposium

08:30–10:00

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

08:30–08:55Quan Nguyen — QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

08:55–09:20Long Phi Le — Mass General Brigham AI Institute, USA

09:20–09:45Natini Jinawath — Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

09:50–10:00Short talks selected from abstracts — 5 minutes each

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:30–11:40

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession II continued

10:30–10:55Arutha Kulasinghe — Wesley Research Institute, Australia

10:55–11:20Faisal Mahmood — Harvard Medical School, USA

11:20–11:40Industry-sponsored presentation — Next Level Genomics

11:40–12:10

Joint programLunch SymposiumMiltenyi Biotec

12:10–13:20

IntermissionLunch

12:10–13:00

IntermissionLunch

13:00–13:20

IntermissionLunch

13:20–15:00

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession III: Spatial Immunology & Therapeutic Response

13:20–13:45Varodom Charoensawan — Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

13:45–14:10Anand D. Jeyasekharan — Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore

14:10–14:35Chin Wee Tan — Frazer Institute, University of Queensland & WEHI, Australia

14:35–15:00Sizun Jiang — Harvard Medical School, USA

15:00–15:45

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

15:45–16:40

AP-SciBio SymposiumSession III continued

15:45–16:10Rong Fan — Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, USA

16:10–16:30Industry-sponsored presentation — Vizgen

16:30–16:40Short talks selected from abstracts — 5 minutes each

16:50–18:50

Joint programPoster Session & Networking

Ballroom B

Cancer Immunotherapy Forum & WIC APAC Young Investigators

09:30–10:00

AAIAT × TTCI × NRCT × NSTDACancer Immunotherapy Forum

09:30–10:00Nattiya Hirankarn — Engineered T-Cell Therapies for Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases in Thailand — Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break & Poster Viewing

10:30–11:30

AAIAT × TTCI × NRCT × NSTDACancer Immunotherapy Forum continued

10:30–10:45Aussara Punya — Orchestrating Innate and Adaptive Antitumor Immunity Through Combined GPRC5D-Targeted BiTE and CD47-Targeted TriKE in Multiple Myeloma — Chiang Mai University, Thailand

10:45–11:00Chanitra Thuwajit — TROP-2 and MSLN Armored CAR-T Cells Combined with PD-L2 Blockade for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Resistant Non-small Cell Lung Cancer — Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

11:00–11:15Patcharee Ritprajak — Targeting Dendritic Cell Lipid Metabolism: Therapeutic Implications for Cancer and Metabolic Disorders — Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

11:15–11:30Asada Leelahavanichkul — Probiotics in Chronic Kidney Disease, an Anti-inflammation — Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

12:10–13:00

IntermissionLunch

13:00–13:30

Meet the Chief EditorMichael Lotze, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, USA

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

16:50–18:50

Joint programPoster Session & Networking

19:00 onwardsSpeaker Dinner

Day 3

Saturday, 27 February 2027

Cancer immunotherapy, immunity and infection

Ballroom A

WIC APAC Symposium

08:30–10:00

WIC APAC SymposiumSession I

08:30–09:00James L. Gulley — Combining Immune Modalities to Optimize Clinical Responses — National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA

09:00–09:30Hiroaki Ikeda — Novel Cancer Immunotherapy Controls Tumor with Heterogeneity — Department of Oncology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan

09:30–10:00Bernard Fox — Canonical Targets, Cryptic Antigens: SLiPs, DRiPs, and the Dark Matter of Anti-Cancer Immunity — Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, USA

10:00–10:30

IntermissionCoffee Break

10:30–12:00

WIC APAC SymposiumSession II

10:30–11:00Jie Wang — Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology, China

11:00–11:20Beung-Chul Ahn — Recent Immunotherapy Trials in Lung Cancer — Center for Lung Cancer, National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea

11:20–11:40TBA

11:40–12:00Industry-sponsored presentation — Illumina

12:00–13:00

IntermissionLunch

12:00–13:00

IntermissionLunch

13:00–15:00

WIC APAC SymposiumSession III

13:00–13:20Cheng Sun — Spatial Immune Intelligence in Cancer: Mapping NK-Cell Checkpoints to Predict and Overcome Immunotherapy Resistance — University of Science and Technology of China, China

13:20–13:40Ryohei Katayama — Mechanism of Resistance to Immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors through Aberrant Activation of Type I Interferon Signaling — Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Japan

13:40–14:10TBA

14:10–14:40Ranjan J. Perera — Next-Generation RNA Therapeutics: Targeted Nanosystems for Precision Cancer Treatment — Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

14:40–15:00Kiat Ruxrungtham — Advances in mRNA-based Vaccines and Therapeutics for Cancers — Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

15:00–15:30

IntermissionCoffee Break

15:30–16:00

WIC APAC SymposiumSession III continued

15:30–16:00Michael Lotze — Thymic Health, TRECs, and Repertoire Diversity in Aging and Cancer — UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, USA

16:00–16:30

Joint programAwards & Closing CeremonyBest Poster Awards · Closing remarks

Ballroom B

Immunity, Infection & Vaccinology

08:30–10:20

Immunity & InfectionImmunity & Infection SymposiumChair: Ponpan Matangkasombut · Supported by PMU-B / รวพ. Infrastructure and e-ASIA grants

08:30–08:40Ponpan Matangkasombut — Introduction to the Session

08:40–09:00Pornpimon Angkasekwinai — Immunometabolic Reprogramming and Metabolic Interplay in Host–Cryptococcus Interaction

09:00–09:20Claire Chewapreecha — Decoding the Interplay between Environment, Pathogen, and Host in Melioidosis — Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit, Thailand

09:20–09:40Waradon Sungnak — Mapping Immune Infiltrates in Human Intra-ocular Inflammation — Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand

09:40–10:00Supranee Phanthanawiboon — From Systematic DENV–Human Protein Interaction Analysis to Experimental Validation of the NS2A–PSMD1 Axis — Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

10:00–10:20Anunya Opasawatchai — Single-Cell Insights into Oral Immunity in Infection and Malignancy — Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, Thailand

10:20–10:50

IntermissionCoffee Break

10:50–11:50

Immunity & InfectionVaccination & Vaccinology SymposiumSupported by PMU-B / รวพ. Infrastructure and e-ASIA grants

10:50–11:10Nawamin Pinpathomrat — Preclinical Study of TB Vaccine Development Using Viral Vector and mRNA Delivery Platforms — Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

11:10–11:30Chotiwat Seephetdee — mRNA-based Vaccine Design for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness — Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand

11:30–11:50Kobporn Boonnak — CHIKV Vaccinomics: Integrating Phosphoproteomics and Immunopeptidomics to Define Host–Pathogen Interactions and Discover Functional T-cell Epitopes

12:00–13:00

IntermissionLunch

13:00–15:00

AAIATOral PresentationSpeakers TBA

15:00–15:30

IntermissionCoffee Break

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