Wednesday, December 3
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- 12:00 PM 鈥� 01:00 PM: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
- 01:00 PM 鈥� 01:15听PM: OPENING REMARKS
Gerald Batist, MD.听Member of the 涩里番 Centre for Translational Research and Associate Director of the Axe Experimental Therapies RRCancer.听
- 01:15听PM 鈥� 02:40 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 1 - THE VOICE OF THE PATIENT
Chair: Karine-Iseult听Ippersiel,听President and听CEO of the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation
Talk 1:听Value Over Volume: Patient-Centered Approaches to Molecular Testing in Quebec Oncology
Eva Villalba, MBA, MSc. Executive Director, Quebec Cancer Coalition
Talk 2:听When Genomics Gets Personal: A Scientist and Breast Cancer Patient Perspective
Catalina Lopez-Correa, PhD. Chief Global Strategy Officer at Genome Canada
Talk 3:听Transforming Patient Care Through the Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory听in听Real-world Practice
Nathalie Tremblay, PhD, Co-Founder and Board Director at C4Care 鈥� Consortium international de sant茅
Discussion and Q&A
- 02:40 PM 鈥� 03:10 PM: COFFEE BREAK
- 03:10 PM 鈥� 04:45听PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 2 - BEYOND GENOMICS: THE ADVANCES OF MOLECULAR PROFILING
Chair: Philippe Lefran莽ois, MD.听Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, 涩里番听
Talk 1:听听Clinical and Translational Proteomics: Providing Decision-Making Information in Medicine
Christoph Borchers, PhD. Director of Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre and Full Professor at the Department of Oncology, 涩里番
Talk 2:听Modulating Immunotherapy Outcomes Through Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Impacts on Response and Toxicity
Saman Maleki, PhD. Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology, Western University
Talk 3:听Advancing Microbiome-Based Cancer Therapies: From Bench-to-Bedside
Edmond Rafie, MD.听 Clinician-scientist Fellow at the CHUM Microbiome Centre, Centre hospitalier de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al (CRCHUM).
Talk 4听(Trainee Presentation):听miRNA Biomarkers Predicting Gemcitabine-docetaxel Response in Leiomyosarcoma听
Pegah Rahimizadeh, PhD Candidate, RI-MUHC,听涩里番
Discussion and Q&A
- 04:45听PM 鈥�06:45听PM: NETWORKING COCKTAIL听AND POSTER EXHIBITION
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Thursday, December 4
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- 07:30 AM 鈥� 03:30 PM: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
- 08:00 AM 鈥� 09:50 AM: PANEL DISCUSSION 3 - D2R: SHOWCASING RNA THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS
Chair: Michael Witcher, PhD. Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, 涩里番听
Talk 1:听听The Jerry Pelletier Initiative: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Innovations for Rare Cancers听
Yasser Riazalhosseini, PhD. Head of the Cancer Genomics program at the 涩里番 Genome Centre; Associate Professor at the Department of Human Genetics, 涩里番
Talk 2:听Re-Heating the Immune-Cold Pancreas:听 Cancer Vaccines to Reprogram Pancreatic Tumor Immunity听听
Kim Ma, MD. Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, 涩里番
Talk 3:听Rise of the vaccine trials: concept and practicality in lung and bladder cancer.听
Ramy Saleh, MD, MSc. Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology, 涩里番
Talk听4 (Trainee Presentation):听CRC Unplugged: Tracing NFE2L3 From Gut Microbiota to Colitis and Cancer
Anantpreet Kaur Sood, PhD Candidate, Lady Davis Institute, 涩里番
Discussion and Q&A
- 09:50 AM 鈥� 10:20 AM: COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST & COFFEE BREAK
- 10:20 AM 鈥� 11:45听AM: PANEL DISCUSSION 4 - ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS IN LIQUID BIOPSIES
Chair: Mark Basik, MD. Professor, Departments of Surgery and Oncology, 涩里番听
Talk 1:听Advances In Liquid Biopsies at The Jewish General Hospital
Adriana Aguliar, PhD. Scientific Director of the Cancer Genomics and Translational Research Laboratory
Talk 2:听Whole genome sequencing as a uniting force for cancer detection, diagnostics, and monitoring
Trevor Pugh, PhD. Director of Genomics Program & Senior Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Professor at Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Talk 3听(Trainee Presentation):听Development of a Second-Generation Diagnostic Test Based on Ganglioside Biomarkers for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
Migmar Tsamchoe, PhD.听Post-Doc Fellow, Lady Davis Institute, 涩里番
Discussion and Q&A
- 11:45听AM 鈥� 12:45 PM: LUNCH BREAK
- 12:45 PM 鈥� 01:45听PM: POSTER EXHIBITION AND EVALUATION
- 01:45听PM 鈥� 03:10 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 5 - AI IN CANCER PREDICTION AND TREATMENT
Chair: John Kildea, PhD.鈥�Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology, 涩里番听
Talk 1:听Building Digital Pathology AI Models for Cancer Detection and Prediction.
Anne Martel, PhD, Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute; Professor at the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toront
Talk 2: Integrative topic modeling analysis of transcriptomes and pathology images
Yue Li, PhD, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, 涩里番
Talk 3听(Trainee Presentation):听Association of Deep Learning-Derived Paraspinal Muscle Sarcopenia with Mortality in Head and Neck Cancer
Joshua Ron Onichino,听Medical Student and Machine learning Intern,听Lady Davis Institute, 涩里番听
Discussion and Q&A
- 03:10 PM 鈥� 03:40 PM: COFFEE BREAK
- 03:40 PM 鈥� 05:05 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 6 - TRANSLATING DISCOVERIES INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE
Chair: Miriam Santos Dutra, PhD. Chief Operating Officer of 涩里番 Centre of Translational Research in Cancer at the Jewish General Hospital听
Talk 1:听The Translational Challenge: From Pipette to Patient
Denis Claude Roy, MD. Chief Scientific Officer of the C3i Centre; Chief Executive Officer at CellCAN, and Full Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal
Talk 2:听From PhD to co-founder of a medical device company - Why I would do it again
Francois Therriault-Proulx, PhD, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at MedScint
Talk 3:听听Accelerating Translation: AI-driven models and Consortium Approaches
Armstrong听Murira, PhD,听Co-Founder and CEO at听Simmunome听
Discussion and Q&A
- 05:05听PM 鈥� 05:30听PM: AWARD CEREMONY & CLOSING REMARKS
Gerald Batist, MD. Member of the 涩里番 Centre for Translational Research and Associate Director of the Axe Experimental Therapies RRCancer.听
