Welcome to Modeling Immunotherapy in Mouse working group. This NCIP Hub Group serves to facilitate brainstorming, sharing ideas, and discussing the state of the science in the field of cancer immunotherapy using the mouse as a model. The intention is to utilize this work space as a collaborative environment to share ideas about topics to discuss during the workshop, form break-out sessions to focus on specific topics during the workshop, and suggest names of experts in the field to determine gaps in the basic and translational research and how the NCI can fill those gaps.  The workshop will take place in 2017 on the NCI Shady Grove campus.

The intent of the workshop is to:

• Delineate the present challenges in modeling immunotherapy in the mouse;
• Describe the state-of-the-science in each of the immunotherapy experimental mouse models;
• Debate and define what each model represents in human biology terms and clinical utility;
• Deposit information about the biological properties of the variety of cancer immunotherapy models and their applications in the Oncology Models Forum;
• Recommend ways to inform the research community about choosing the most effective models for basic and translational immunotherapy research.