Timetable

15:00-15:15 Official opening
15:15-15:50 Tobias Bald

15:50-16:25 Kazuyo Moro

The Impact of Appendectomy on Ulcerative Colitis
16:25-17:00 Jakub Gołąb

17:00-17:35 Aurélie Poli
M.S., PhD, Ms. Scientist
AllergoOncology: Lessons Learned from the Allergy-Glioblastoma Connection
17:35-18:00 Break
18:00-19:00 Opening keynote Melody Swartz
19:00-21:00 Welcome reception at the PORT Campus

9:00-9:35 Alexandros Drainas

9:35-10:10 Sébastien Talbot
PhD Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University
Pain neurons control cancer immunosurveillance
10:10-10:45 Hrvoje Miletic

Cell communication and mitochondria transfer in brain tumors
10:45-11:20 Break
11:20-11:55 Anne-Marie Heegaard
M.D., Ph.D. is Professor at the Department of Drug Design & Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pain in Multiple Myeloma – interaction of the cancer microenvironment with the sensory nervous system
11:55-12:30 Andrew Shepherd
PhD., Assistant Professor, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Peripheral Nerve Injury Induced by Colorectal Cancer: Mechanisms and Implications for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
12:30-13:05 Claudio Ballabio
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow, Leanne Li Group (SW206), The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
Tumour intrinsic electrical activity drives small-cell lung cancer progression
13:05-14:50 Lunch break/Matchmaking
14:50-15:25 Yuan Pan
Phd, Assistant Professor in the Department of Symptom Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The Cancer Neuroscience of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)
15:25-16:00 Dominika Nowis
prof. dr hab. n. med., Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Medial University of Warsaw, Poland
The use of mRNA-based immunotherapies in experimental oncology
16:00-16:35 Helena Florindo
Full Professor with habilitation; University of Lisbon, Faculty of Pharmacy
Unveiling Solid TUmor Microenvironment for revolutionary nano-immunotherapies
16:35-17:10 Carlos-Filipe Pereira

Empowering Cancer Immunotherapy with Cellular Reprogramming

9:00-9:35 Christoph Klose

Neuro-immune interactions at barrier surfaces
9:35-10:10 Varun Venkataramani

10:10-10:45 Thanussuyah Alaguthurai

Translational Research Programme- Facilitating oncology research at Guy’s
10:45-11:20 Marco Gustav

Deep Learning-based Biomarkers for Precision Oncology
11:20-12:00 Break
12:00-12:35 Helen Kakkassery

Investigating the immune surveillance mechanisms in atypical responders of stage IV breast cancers following standard of care chemo – and targeted
12:35-13:10 Rafael Blanco Domínguez
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa
Delta One T cells in Cancer Immunotherapy
13:10-14:10 Company session
14:10-14:30 Official closure & lunch
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