SCHEDULE
Each session will consist of invited talks (20+5 for Q&A) and some short talks (12+3 Q&A), selected from abstracts.
Day 1-Monday, September 26, 2022
Conference Registration: 6:00-8:00pm Hotel Lobby
Welcome Reception: Dinner 8:00pm
Day 2-Tuesday, September 27, 2022
7:30am Breakfast
9:00 Costas Koumenis, UPenn Opening remarks
Session I (9:05am- 10:45 am): TME, Metastasis and Tumor Dormancy
Chair: Costas Koumenis/Ashi Weeratna
9:05 Ashani Weeratna, Johns Hopkins “Age against the machine: how aging impacts tumor progression
9:30 Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Einstein “Targeting Dormant Tumor Cells”
9:55 Soledad Sosa, Mt. Sinai “NR2F1 and Maintenance of Tumor Dormancy”
10:20 Costas Koumenis, U. Penn “The Integrated Stress response in tumor progression and
metastasis”
Keynote lecture
Introduction: Sandra Ryeom
10:45 William Kaelin, DFCI Oxygen sensing
11:30 Coffee Break-Discussions & Poster Viewing (11:30 am-12:20 pm)
Session II (12:20-1:35): Hypoxia, HIF and the TME
Chair: Sandra Ryeom
12:20 James Nathan, Cambridge University “Regulation of HIF response at chromatin”
12:45 Erinn Rankinn, Stanford “Synthetic lethality between VHL and RNA demethylase FT0”
1:10 Kasper Rouschop, Maastricht University “Hypoxia-derived EVs and angiogenesis”
1:35 pm Lunch/informal discussions
7:30pm Dinner/Informal Discussions
Day 3-Wednesday, September 28, 2022
7:30am Breakfast
Session III (8:30-10:25 AM): Therapeutic Targeting, Immune Evasion and Plasticity
Chair: Soledad Sosa
8:30 Amir Abdollahi, U. Heidelberg “Reprogramming the TME for an in-situ tumor vaccine”
8:55 Michael Horsman, Aarhus U. “Combination therapy: ICB, vascular disruption and hyperthermia”
9:20 Ravi Amaravadi, U. Penn “Lysosomal targeting and resistance”
Coffee Break-Discussions & Poster Viewing (10:25 am-11:10 am)
Session IV (11:10-12:25): Genome Integrity
Chair: Ester Hammond
11:10 Robert Bristow, U. Manchester “Hypoxia and Tumour Genomics”
11:35 Martin Eilers, U. Wuerzburg “MYC oncoproteins and genomic stability”
12:00 PM Lilie Lin, MDACC (short talk ) “PARP Expression in Patients with DNA Damage
Response Pathway Mutations”
Session V (12:15-1:30): Novel Targets in the TME
Chair: Natasha Kyprianou
12:15 Sandra Ryeom, Columbia University “Nervous system innervation in gastric cancer”
12:40 Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, U. Thessaly “miRNA functional analysis”
1:05 Katherine Cook, Wake Forest (short talk) “The microbiome and breast cancer”
1:20 Special Session:Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou, Nature Cancer Editor
1:40 pm Lunch/informal discussions
7:30pm Dinner/Informal Discussions
Day 4-Thursday, September 29, 2022
7:30am Breakfast
Session V (8:30am- 10:35pm) UPR and Stress Responses
Chair: Ravi Amaravadi
8:30 Linda Hendershot, St. Jude’s “Molecular Signature of Dilated Endoplasmic Reticulum in Osteosarcoma”
9:20 Susan Logue, University of Manitoba “Crosstalk between UPR Mediators”
9:45 Kirk Staschke, Indiana U “GCN2, Prostate Cancer and preservation of amino acids”
10:10 Natasha Kyprianou, Mt. Sinai “Prostate cancer reprogramming and therapeutic resistance”
Coffee Break-Discussions & Poster Viewing (10:35 am-11:25 am)
Session VI (11:25-1:30) Metabolism, Epigenetics and the TME
Chair: Susan Logue
11:25 Ben Stanger, U Penn “Metabolic Heterogeneity and therapeutic targets”
11:50 Colin Goding, Oxford “Tumor Cell Plasticity and therapeutic responses”
12:15 Apostolos Klinakis, Athens Academy “KMT2C loss and Bladder Cancer”
12:40 Joel Encarnacion Rosado, NYU (Short Talk)“Glutamine dependencies in PDAC”
12:55 Dennis Vitkup, Columbia University (Short Talk) “The Role of environmental lipids when electron acceptors are limited in cancer”
1:10 pm Lunch/informal discussions
CITY TOUR
7:30pm Dinner/Informal Discussions
Day 5-Friday, September 30
7:30am Breakfast
Session VII (8:30am- 10:40pm) Radiation Resistance and Sensitization
Chair: Michele Kim
8:30 Alexander Lin, U Penn “HIV protease inhibitor as Hypoxic Radiosensitizer in Head and Neck Cancer”
8:55 Ester Hammond, Oxford “Hypoxia-induced ROS and R loop accumulation”
9:20 Ramesh Rengan, U. Washington “Radiation and Immune modulation in Lung Cancer”
9:45 Chandan Guha, Einstein “Immune Priming using low energy focused ultrasound (LOFU)”
10:10 Jian-Jian Li UC Davis (short talk) TBD
10:25 Kyriakos Fotiou, Cyprus (Short talk) “Lung Cancer and Proton Therapy”
Coffee Break-Discussions & Poster Viewing (10:40 am-11:20 am)
Session VIII (11:20-1:25 ) Latest developments in Radiotherapy-FLASH Radiation
Chair: Lilie Lin
11:20 Jim Metz, U Penn “FLASH Radiation in the Clinics”
11:45 Michele Kim, U Penn “In Vivo Proton FLASH Radiation”
12:10 Billy Loo, Stanford “FLASH Abdominal Irradiation”
12:35 Andrew Minchinton, U. British Columbia “Flash Radiation and 3D spheroids”
1:00 PM Closing remarks: Ester Hammond, Oxford
1:10 pm Lunch/informal discussions
7:30pm Farewell Gala Dinner
Day 6–Saturday October 1
7:00am Breakfast
9:00am Departure
If your abstract is not listed above, then it has been accepted for a poster presentation