MEETING PROGRAM
8:30 Welcome coffee
9:15 Start of symposium – Opening words by Prof. Dr. Marc Peeters, MD (UZA & UAntwerpen, BE)
SESSION 1: Platforms Powering Precision Oncology - Part I
9:25 Keynote speaker 1: Prof. Dr. Daniela Thommen, MD (Netherlands Cancer Institute, NL)
“Dissecting and rewiring antitumor immunity in human cancers”
10:05 Invited speaker 1: Prof. Dr. Christophe Deben (UAntwerpen, BE)
“Patient-derived organoids in precision medicine”
10:25 Invited speaker 2: Prof. Dr. Pieter Mestdagh (Ghent University, BE)
“Use of cell-free RNA for screening and monitoring of cancer patients”
10:45 Coffee break
SESSION 2: The Molecular Mosaic of Cancer
11:10 Selected abstract 1: Manon Desgres (UCLouvain)
“Metabolic adaptation towards glycolysis supports resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in early triple negative breast cancer”
11:25 Selected abstract 2: Jan-Lars Van Den Bossche (VUB)
“Spatial transcriptomic analysis reveals PTGES as a conserved potential therapeutic target for basal cells in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma”
11:40 Invited speaker 3: Prof. Dr. Abhishek Garg (KU Leuven, BE)
“Multi-omics and spatial mapping in cancer patients for precision immunotherapy”
12:00 Invited speaker 4: Prof. Dr. Christos Sotiriou, MD (Jules Bordet Institute, BE)
“No more triple negative breast cancer: molecular classification and personalised therapy”
12:20 Lunch talk by Caroline Rosseel (ThermoFisher Scientific)
“Empowering Precision Oncology: Unleashing the Potential of fast NGS”
12:20 Lunch + Poster session
SESSION 3: Precision Medicine in Practice
14:00 Selected abstract 3: Sofie Seghers (UAntwerpen)
“Malignant effusions as a robust source for the generation of patient- derived tumor organoids”
14:15 Selected abstract 4: Joline Ingels (UGent)
“Clinical development of individualized neoantigen-targeted vaccines for lung cancer patients”
14:30 Invited speaker 5: Prof. Dr. Karine Breckpot (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)
“Synthetic DNA templates: a versatile platform to improve RNA vaccines”
14:50 Invited speaker 6: Prof. Dr. Marc Van den Eynde, MD (UC Louvain, BE)
“Precision medicine in digestive oncology: what is useful for the clinician”
15:10 Coffee break
SESSION 4: Platforms Powering Precision Oncology - Part II
15:40 Selected abstract 5: Yoline Lauwers (VUB)
“The use of a CD163-specific nanobody-based immunotracer as a molecular imaging agent to study immunosuppressive tumor- associated macrophages”
15:55 Selected abstract 6: Laura Corveleyn (UGent)
“Histone post-translational modifications as determinants for epidrug outcome in T-ALL”
16:10 Keynote speaker 2: Prof. Dr. Nelson Dusetti (Cancer Research Center Marseille, FR)
“Personalizing Pancreatic Cancer Treatments”
16:50 Closing words + Award ceremony
17:00 Network reception
18:00 End of symposium