John G. McHutchison, MD
Associate Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Director, GI/Hepatology Research

Research Interests: Hepatitis B and C, ascites, noninvasive fibrosis markers, and steatosis.

Patrick Hwu, M.D.
Professor
Chairman, Melanoma Medical Oncology
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Research interests: Cancer Immunology, Cancer Vaccines, Tumor Immunology. Focused on the translation of basic immunologic concepts from the laboratory to the clinic.

Marc Ernstoff, M.D.
Director, Cancer Immunotherapy Center, Dartmouth
Medical School
Director, Melanoma Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Research interests: Developing clinical use of cytokines in the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma or melanoma.

Stephen P. Schoenberger, PhD
Member, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

Stephen P. Schoenberger, PhD, is an internationally-recognized expert in the area of immune memory with special emphasis on the cooperation between CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the immune response to vaccines, cancer, and infectious pathogens. Dr. Schoenberger joined the faculty of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in 1993. He also holds an adjunct faculty
position in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at UCSD and is a member of the Moores Cancer Center. Dr. Schoenberger is an advisory editor for the Journal of Experimental Medicine, an associate editor of the Journal of Immunology.