Registration:

Key information

– Meeting date: November 12-13, 2020
– Location: Hörsaal 2, Klinikum I, Spitalstrasse 21, University Hospital, Basel.
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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: via Zoom Helen Bryart, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield:
  PARP inhibitors – a history of the science behind the drugs and what comes next…
• Clinic: via Zoom 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 – Apéro

18.30-21.30 – Dinner and poster session (4 best posters will be selected for a BBC award)

Friday 13th of November 2020

9.00 – Session 3: Cutting-edge technologies (Chair: Cinzia Donato and Maren Diepenbruck)

• 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): TBN
• Industry: Florian Fuchs, Novartis, Basel:
  Miniaturized cell based assays in pharmaceutical research
  

10.30 – Coffee break & Poster session

11.00-11.20 – Round table discussion related to all Sessions (Chair: and speakers from Sessions 1-3)

11.30-11.55 – Talk by patient advocate: Larrisa Aragon, Eupati Switzerland: How to encourage patient agency ? (Chair: Jane Shaw)

11.55-12.00 – BBC awards

12.00-13.00 – 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?

13.00: Departure