Committee & Speakers
The world's leading minds in oncolytic virotherapy, translational oncology, and clinical immunotherapy.
Distinguished Keynote Speakers
Leading our plenary sessions with fundamental insights on clinical trial paradigms, spatial metabolomics, and liquid biopsy monitoring.
Jame Gulley
International Committee
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Keynote Address
"NeoAdjuvant Trial Design"
Nathalie Agar
International Committee
Harvard University
Keynote Address
"Spatial imaging, mass spec imaging, and metabolomics"
Klaus Pantel
International Committee
Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Keynote Address
"Using Liquid Biopsies to Monitor Clinical Trials"
International Organizing Committee
Pioneers and leaders guiding the scientific vision, peer review, and academic program of IOVC.
Brian Lichty
Organizing Committee
McMaster University/Esphera SynBio
Carolina Ilkow
Organizing Committee
University of Ottawa/Esphera SynBio
Tommy Alain
Organizing Committee
University of Ottawa
John Bell
Organizing Committee
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
E. Antonio Chiocca
Organizing Committee
Harvard/Brigham & Young
Stephen Russell
Organizing Committee
Vyriad Inc
Martine Lamfers
Organizing Committee
Erasmus MC
Kah-Whye Peng
Organizing Committee
Mayo Clinic
Kerry Fisher
Organizing Committee
Oxford/Theolytics
Noriyuki Kasahara
Organizing Committee
UC San Francisco
Evanthia Galanis
Organizing Committee
Mayo Clinic
Tomoki Todo
Organizing Committee
University of Tokyo
Len Seymour
Organizing Committee
Oxford University
Grant McFadden
Organizing Committee
University of Arizona
Alan Melcher
Organizing Committee
The Institute of Cancer Research
Doug Mahoney
Organizing Committee
University of Calgary
David Stojdl
Organizing Committee
Turnstone Biologics
Chae-Ok Yun
Organizing Committee
Hanyang University
Samuel Rabkin
Organizing Committee
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
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The International Organizing Committee is responsible for the logistical and scientific organization of IOVC 2026.