Vipin Kumar

Company: University of California San Diego

Job title: Chief Scientific Officer and Professor of Medicine

Seminars:

Panel Discussion: Reviewing Biomarkers Discussed in the Context of Fibrosis & Oncology 11:45 am

• Highlighting promising new avenues for evaluating fibrosis staging in vivo, in vitro and in patient • Reviewing the advantages and pitfalls of fluid markers vs imaging for fibrosis diagnostics • Illuminating similarities and differences in biomarkers across fibrotic disease and tumor fibrosisRead more

day: Day One

Exploration of NKT Cell Activation as an Immune Biomarker for Progression of Fibrosis 9:15 am

• Focusing on inflammatory pathways promoting fibrosis • iNKT cell activation as an upstream key pathway impacting type 1, type 2 and type 3 cytokine pathway in fibrosis • iNKT cell involvement in experimental models of liver and lung fibrosis as well as their activation in progression of fibrosis in NASH & IPF patientsRead more

day: Day One