CIMT Winter School for Early-Career Cancer Immunologists

January 25-28, 2024
Obergurgl, Austria

a program of the CIMT Academy of Translational Cancer Immunology

Via its small size with 24 early-career researchers, the Winter School was designed to offer participants an extraordinary development experience among peers and leaders in a beautiful setting. The relaxed, yet comprehensive program and involvement of supportive leaders in the field provided participants with one-on-one learning and networking opportunities.

Winter School features

  • Every participant had the opportunity to give an oral presentation and show a poster of their work.

  • Program devoted ample time for thorough discussion of participants’ projects with all speakers and faculty.

  • Speakers and faculty shared their experience in combining science and entrepreneurship in an exciting and fast-moving field.

  • Time for one-on-one conversations offered participants exclusive networking opportunities to fuel their careers.

  • Lectures and discussion groups covered:
    mechanisms and methodologies in cancer immunology and immunotherapy, drug development, aspects of clinical translation, and career development.

Speakers, faculty and program

Speakers: Ferry Ossendorp (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands), Michal Bassani-Sternberg (UNIL/CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland), Andrew Kaiser (BioNTech, Mainz, Germany), Enrico Lugli (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy), Barbara Maier (Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria), Özlem Türeci (CIMT, Mainz, Germany), Samra Turajlic (The Francis Crick Institute, UK), Priscilla N. Kelly (Science, Washington D.C., USA)

Location and venue

The 2024 CIMT Winter School took place in the village of Obergurgl in Tirol, Austria. Situated 1,940 meters above sea level in the Ötztal valley, the village is the center of one of the top ski areas in the Alps - the Obergurgl-Hochgurgl ski area. The Obergurgl University Center is located in a listed historical building featuring 40 bedrooms in simple Alpine style.

For more information, please write to office[at]cimt.eu