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__ Check the detailed programme __ 4 keynote, 16 invited, and 7 selected speakers + 3 invited editors confirmed __ This event already happened __ Champalimaud Research Symposium 





︎  Time in Lisbon (WEST)

Wednesday, 16 October



08:30

Registration & Welcome Coffee



09:30

Opening Remarks


Leonor Beleza, President of the Champalimaud Foundation


10:00

Keynote Lecture
Identifying drivers of immunotherapy resistance by spatial functional genomics


Brian Brown, PhD 

Icahn Genomics Institute
Dept. of Immunology & Immunotherapy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York City, USA



11:00

Coffee Break



11:30

The systemic impact of cancer-induced inflammation on hematopoiesis


Julie Helft, PhD
Institut Cochin 
Paris, FR


12:00

Tumor-hematopoietic communication in colorectal cancer immune evasion


Ana Luísa Machado, PhD candidate
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Oporto University
Faculdade de Medicina (FMUP), Departamento de Patologia, Oporto University
Escola Superior de Saúde (ESS), Polytechnic Institute of Porto


12:15

Dissecting the mutational drivers behind interclonal interactions in cancer


José Teles Reis, PhD candidate
Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, University of Oslo.
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway


12:30

Systematic perturbation of cellular interactions in the tumor microenvironment


Andreas Moor, MD, PhD
ETH Zürich, Basel
Switzerland, CH


13:00

Lunch & Meet the Expert

14:30

Neuroimmune ecosystems


Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, PhD
Immunophysiology Lab, Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, PT

15:00

Understanding the interaction between cancer and the nervous system using genetically engineered mouse models


Leanne Li, MD, PhD
The Francis Crick Institute
London, UK

15:30

Thymic cell competition and leukemia


Vera Martins, PhD
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Oeiras, PT


16:00

Coffee Break



16:30

Jacco van Rheenen, PhD
Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode Institute
Amsterdam, NL


17:00

Ada Nowosad, Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Cancer Biology, VIB-KU Leuven
Leuven, BE


17:15

Adriana Sánchez-Danés
Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Lab
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, PT

17:30

Extrachromosomal DNA comprising the oncogene MYC drives stromal niche independence in pancreatic cancer cells


Peter Bailey, PhD
Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Center
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, PT


17:45 & 18:15

Champalimaud Tours


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