NCI Division of Cancer Biology at Immunology2024

Come and see us and our NIH colleagues at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) from May 3 - 7, 2024.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

10:00 – 11:30 am (Skyline Ballroom W375E)

What It Will Take to End Cancer as We Know It: Opportunities and Realities in Cancer Research

Chairs: Gretchen Diehl, Ph.D. (MSKCC & AAI Committee on Public Affairs) and Lauren Ehrlich, Ph.D. (University of Texas, Austin)

Speaker: W. Kimryn Rathmell, Ph.D. (NCI Director)

Sunday, May 5, 2024

12:45 – 2:15 pm (Room W185)

National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH Symposium: Mechanisms of Immune-related Adverse Events in Cancer Immunotherapy

Chairs: Yin Liu, Ph.D. (NCI Division of Cancer Biology) and Alexandra Chloe Villani, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital)

Speakers: Alexandra Chloe Villani, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital), Roza Nurieva, Ph.D. (MD Anderson Cancer Center), and Arabella Young, Ph.D. (University of Utah)

1:00 – 3:00 pm (Room W186)

NIH Grants Workshop: Demystifying the Grant Application Submission, Review, and Funding Processes

Chair: Xinrui Li, Ph.D. (Center for Scientific Review)

Speakers: Xinrui Li, Ph.D. (Center for Scientific Review), Lillian Kuo, Ph.D. (NCI Division of Cancer Biology), and Timothy Gondre-Lewis, Ph.D. (NIAID)

Monday, May 6, 2024

10:30 – 11:30 am (Room W180)

National Institutes of Health: Simplifying the Review of Research Project Grant Applications

Chair: Gretchen Diehl, Ph.D. (MSKCC & AAI Committee on Public Affairs)

Speaker: Ross Shonat, Ph.D. (Center for Scientific Review)

NIH Grant Review and Funding Information Room (W472)

NIH program officers (including Drs. Yin Liu and Lillian Kuo in our division) and Center for Scientific Review staff will be available for individual conversations and consultations in the NIH Grant Review and Funding Information Room.

Contacts in the NCI Division of Cancer Biology for Cancer Immunology

Prospective grant applicants and current grantees focusing on cancer immunology research can reach out to Program Directors in our division’s Cancer Immunology, Hematology, and Etiology Branch.

Funding Opportunities Supported by the NCI Division of Cancer Biology for Cancer Immunology Research

The NCI Division of Cancer Biology supports Notices of Funding Opportunities for cancer immunology research.