Highlights of Miami winter symposium 2015: into the era of immunotherapy

Abstract

Personalized cancer medicine has seen significant improvements over the past decade. Recent Elsevier conference:Miami winter symposium 2015 (MWS2015) "Towards Personalized Cancer Medicine" meeting was dedicated to this exciting field, and focused on new progress in personalized drug development and antibody drug against checkpoint pathway. This meeting report summarizes the key developments presented and discussed at the meeting, with a focus on immunotherapy, especially on the CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD-L1 pathways. The monoclonal antibody drugs intervening these checkpoint pathways have the potential to play a larger role in personalize medicine within the near future. Here we intended to provide a comprehensive summary about ongoing trends and future perspectives on personalized medicine in cancer therapy.

Keywords

• Personalized cancer medicine
• immune therapy
• immune checkpoint pathway
• CTLA-4
• PD-1
• PD-L1