Preliminary program

 

The schedule of the workshop:

Wednesday October 4th

 Arrival in the afternoon. 

 Registration opened at 18:00

19:00 Opening of the workshop
  Organizing committee
19:05 - 19:10

 

Presentation of the "Tumour Targeting, Imaging, Radiotherapies network" of the Cancéropôle Grand Ouest

  Dimitris Visvikis, LaTIM, National Institute of Health & Clinical Sciences,  Brest, France.
19:10 - 19:15

 

Sponsor communication

 

19:15 - 20:15

"New tactics in the design of radiotheranostics”

 

Invited speaker: Jason P. Holland, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
20:30 Dinner

Thursday October 5th

Session 1: New paradigms in tumour targeting

8:30 - 9:00

“Nucleic acids as tools for the treatment and diagnostics of cancer”

 

Invited speaker: Marcel Hollenstein, Research Scientist, Institut Pasteur, Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry of Nucleic Acids, CNRS UMR3523, Paris, France.

 

9:00 - 10:00

3 selected talks of young researchers
   
10:00 - 10:30 Poster session & Coffee break
   

10:30 - 11:00

3 selected talks of young researchers

   

11:00 - 12:00

 

Sponsors communications

 

12:15 Lunch
   

Session 2: Alternative biological models

14:00 - 14:30

 

“The use of organoids in radiotherapy research; mechanisms, prediction and regeneration”
 

Invited speaker: Rob Coppes, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells & Systems & Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen & University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

 

14:30 - 15:30

3 selected talks of young researchers
   
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 17:00 3 selected talks of young researchers
   
19:00 Dinner
   

Friday October 6th

Session 3: Artificial intelligence and Imaging

9:00 - 9:30

 

“AI dose calculation: application in radiation and radionuclide therapies”
 
 

Invited speaker: Julien Bert, Research scientist, LaTIM, National Institute of Health & Clinical Sciences, Brest University, France.

 

 

9:30 - 10:30

3 selected talks of young researchers

 
     
10:30 - 11:00 Poster session & Coffee break  
     

11:00 - 12:00

3 selected talks of young researchers

 
     
12:15 Lunch  

Session 4: How to distribute the dose in radiotherapies in time and space?

14:00 - 14:30

 

"Dose distribution, rate and volumes in radiotherapy, preclinical data and new concepts"

 
 

Invited speaker: Eric Deutsch, Professor, Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France.

 

 

14:30 - 15:30

3 selected talks of young researchers

 
     
15:30 - 16:00 Poster session & Coffee break  
     

16:00 - 17:00

3 selected talks of young researchers

 
     
17:30 Social event  
     

Saturday October 7th

Session 5: Therapeutic combinations

9:00 - 9:30

 

“Prostate-confined radiotherapy to empower TCR/CAR T cells against primary and metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma”
 
 

Invited speaker: Anna Mondino, Research scientist, Head of Lymphocyte Activation Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

 

 

9:30 - 10:30

3 selected talks of young researchers

 
     
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
     

11:00 - 12:00

3 selected talks of young researchers

 
     
12:00 Lunch  
     
13:30 End of the workshop - Departure  
     

Other information

Scientific sessions:

- Duration of selected talks is 15 minutes and 5 minutes for questions.

 

Poster session:

- The format of poster is A0.

- Discussion around the posters will be possible during all coffee breaks. Posters should therefore be hanged for the entire duration of the workshop.