Tumour Microenvironment - Basic Science to Novel Therapies


Program (all speakers confirmed)


Wednesday 14th  June 2017

4:00pm-6:00pm registration

6:00pm-7:00pm Opening Keynote. Robert Kerbel. (Sunybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto)

 

Thursday 15th  June 2017

Stroma

9:00-9:30 Jeff Pollard, (University of Edinburgh).

9:30-10:00 Ingunn Holen (University of Sheffield)  The role of the microenvironment in bone metastasis development and response to therapy

10:00-10:30 Roy Bicknell (University of Birmingham) CLEC14A and multimerin2 in the endothelial extracellular matrix
10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Speakers (6) selected from abstracts

12:30-2:00 Trade Stands and lunch

Hypoxia and metabolism

2:00-2:30  Michael Potente (MPI Bad Neuheim) Regulation of angiogenesis by endothelial metabolism

2:30-3:00 Max Mazzone (University of Leuven) Tumor-associated macrophages  orchestrate blood vessels and lymphatics

3:00-3:30 Ester Hammond Hypoxia, (University of Oxford). Targeting hypoxia-induced replication stress

3:30--4:00 Speakers (2) selected from abstracts

4:00-4:30 Tea

4:30-5:30 Keynote lecture

Peter Carmeliet – (KU Leuven)

5:30 – 7:30 Posters and drinks

7:30 BACR dinner,

 

Friday 16th June 2017

Opening Keynote
9:00-9:30 Kari Alitalo (University of Helsinki). Targeting teh angiopoietin and VEGF pathways
Tumour angiogenesis
9:30-10:00 Kairbaan Hodivala Dilke. (Queen Mary University of London) Tumour Microenvironment – New Ways for Old Roads

10:00-10:30 Gordon Jayson (University of Manchester) Biomarkers of resistance to VEGF inhibitors.


10:30-11:00 Coffee

Cancer and the Immune system

11:00-11:30  Lisa Coussens (UCSF). Dynamic Interactions between myeloid and lymphoid cells regulate response to cytotixoc therapy in solid tumors

11:30-12:00 Kevin Harrington (London). Using Viruses as immunotherapy agents

12:00-12:30 Poulam Patel. (University of Nottingham) Immuno-oncology: checkpoint inhibitors and beyond!

12:30-1:00 Speakers (2) selected from abstract

1:00-2:00 Lunch

The interstitial-stem cell niche

2:00-2:30 Jan Kitajewski (Columbia University, New York) Regulation of tumor angiogenesis by cell fate determination pathways

2:30-3:00 Axel Behrens (Crick Institute, London) Molecular mechanisms of pancreatic cancer development

3:00-3:30 Ian Tomlinson. (University of Oxford).

3:30-4.00 Tea

Closing Lecture
4:00-4:30 David Bates (University of Nottingham). Interaction in the microenvironment - Synergy between immuno-oncology and anti-angiogenesis



 

5:00 – After party.