WORKSHOP Modeling and targeting cancer 28th October 2016, Cracow

WORKSHOP

Modeling and targeting cancer

28th October 2016, Cracow

Life Science Park , Congress Hall in Building C/ Free entrance

 

Programme

 

09:00   Welcome

09:15   Plenary Lecture: A. Thomas Look – Harvard Medical School, USA

Molecular Pathogenesis and Drug Synergism in a Zebrafish Model of High Risk Neuroblastoma

10:00   Veronika Sexl – University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna, Austria

CDK6 – a cell cycle kinase goes transcriptional

10:30   Marcin Kortylewski – Medical Research Center, City of Hope, USA

Myeloid cell-selective oligonucleotide inhibitors for treatment of hematologic malignancies

11:00   Coffee

11:20   Richard Moriggl – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Cancer Research, Austria

Graded pYSTAT5 activation and consequences for leukemia and lymphoma formation

11:50   Iris Behrmann – University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Targeting cytokine signals and microRNAs

12:20   Vittorio de Franciscis – Center for Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, Italy

Aptamers for the selective delivery of anti-STAT-3 therapeutics in tumors

 12:50   Lunch

14:30   Marcin Majka – Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Poland

Potential targets for STAT3 mediated therapies

15:00   Anna Cards FiguerasCardiff University, UK

T-cell activation re-tunes STAT signaling in response to inflammatory cytokines

15:30   Michal Komorowski – Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Using mathematical modeling to better understand cellular signalling

16:00   Florian Grebien – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Cancer Research, Austria

Identification of critical effectors of leukemia oncoproteins using integrated approaches

16:30   Coffee

17:00   Discussion about funding opportunities

17:15   Stefan Grünert – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Cancer Research, Austria

Funding Opportunities at the European level: from COST to ITN

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