Invited Talk: Prof. Dr. med. Juliane Walz Walz at ESMO

🔬 Advancing Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines – Prof. Dr. med. Juliane Walz Walz at ESMO - European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2026

🎤 On October 25, 2026, Prof. Dr. med. Juliane S. Walz, co-spokesperson of the iFIT - Cluster of Excellence, delivered an invited talk entitled “Principles of Therapeutic Cancer Vaccination” during the session “All About Cancer Vaccines” at the ESMO Congress 2026 in Madrid, Spain.
🎯 Her presentation focused on key principles and recent developments in therapeutic cancer vaccination, including the identification of tumor-associated antigens through immunopeptidomics, the development of personalized peptide-based cancer vaccines and strategies to enhance vaccine-induced immune responses.

💡 With the promising Phase III results of Moderna's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine in melanoma presented at ESMO 2026, therapeutic cancer vaccines are increasingly moving into the spotlight as a promising strategy in cancer immunotherapy.