BBC Annual Meeting 2020
Personalized breast cancer treatments 5

Registration:
Key information
– Meeting date: November 12-13, 2020
– Location: Due to the current situation the meeting will occur via Zoom only.
– Payment information: – Click here –
Program
Thursday 12th of November 2020
14.00 – Session 1: Session 1: Immunotherapy (Chair: Markus Ackerknecht and Ana Correia)
- Basic: Michele De Palma, EPFL, Lausanne:
Anti-angiogenic cancer immunotherapy - Clinic: Heinz Läubli. University Hospital, Basel:
Cancer immunotherapy by manipulation of tumor-associated glycosylation - Industry: Christian Klein, Roche, Zurich:
Bispecific antibodies and fusion proteins for cancer immunotherapy
15.30 – Coffee break & Poster session
16.00-16.30 – Speed posters: presentation of 10 posters
16.30 – Session 2: Synthetic lethality and BRCAness (Chair: Marcus Vetter and Christian Kurzeder)
- Basic: Helen Bryart, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield:
PARP inhibitors – a history of the science behind the drugs and what comes next… - Clinic: Andrew Tutt, The Institute of Cancer Research, London:
Targeting genome instability and the DDR- creating impact when forward meets reverse translation - Industry: Either Giorgio Galli / Rui Lopes, Novartis, Basel:
Functional Epigenomics in Breast Cancer
18.00-18.30 – Break
18.30-20.00 – Dinner and poster session (4 best posters will be selected for a BBC award)
18:30-19.15: Poster Session 1 (poster numbers 1-13)
19.15-20.00: Poster Session 2 (poster numbers 14-26)
Friday 13th of November 2020
9.00 – Session 3: Cutting-edge technologies (Chair: Cinzia Donato and Priska Auf der Mauer)
- Basic: Gioele La Manno, EPFL, Lausanne:
RNA velocity on closed manifolds: inferring cell cycle dynamics from single-cell data - Clinic: Niklaus Schaefer, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV): Nuclear Oncology – New Developments
10.00 – Coffee break & Poster session
10.30-10.50 – Round table discussion related to all Sessions (Chair: and speakers from Sessions 1-3)
11.00-11.25 – Talk by patient advocate: Larrisa Aragon, Eupati Switzerland: How to encourage patient agency ? (Chair: Jane Shaw)
11.25-11.30 – BBC awards
11.30-12.30 – Keynote lecture: Gerhard Christofori, Department of Biomedicine, Basel (Chair: M. Bentires-Alj)
EMT and cancer cell plasticity: do they exist and can they be therapeutically exploited?
12.30: Departure
