40 - Fungal Mischief: Emerging Role of Fungi in Inflammation and Cancer

Speaker(s)

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  Petra Bacher, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Kiel, Germany

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  George Miller

  Professor of Surgery
  NYU
  New York, New York

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Bernd Schnabl, MD

  Professor of Medicine
  University of California San Diego
  San Diego, California

  Disclosure: Axial Biotherapeutics : Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing); BiomX : Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing); CymaBay Therapeutics : Grant/Research Support (Status: Terminated --- 06/30/2020); Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Research Institute : Consultant (Status: Ongoing); HOST Therabiomics : Consultant (Status: Terminated --- May 12, 2017); Intercept Pharmaceuticals : Consultant (Status: Terminated --- October 12, 2018); Mabwell Therapeutics : Consultant (Status: Ongoing); Patara Pharmaceuticals : Consultant (Status: Terminated --- May 20, 2019); Synlogic Operating Company : Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing)

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit

No CPE Credits

Learning Objectives:

• describe how commensal fungi can shape asthmatic, alcoholic liver, and neoplastic disease
• assess the impact of fungal colonization on immune responses at local and distant sites to promote disease states
• summarize research methods to investigate the role of commensal fungi in inflammatory and neoplastic human disease

Presentations:

• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Effect of Fungi on Pancreatic Cancer Progression
  George Miller – NYU
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Fungi and Alcoholic Liver Disease
  Bernd Schnabl, MD – University of California San Diego
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Intestinal Anti-fungal th17 Drives Allergic Airway Inflammation in Humans
  Petra Bacher, PhD – University of Kiel