NanoTME 2021 · 1st edition

Program

23 — 24 September
International audience

The inaugural NanoTME conference took place online on 23–24 September 2021. The programme below is reproduced from the supplied schedule, labelled ‘Rough Schedule’, with its tentative titles and unfilled slots retained.

Thursday 23 September 2021

• 9:00 — Welcome speech — Prakash and Shaked
• 9:15 — Keynote lecture — Emile voest: THE BATTLE BETWEEN TUMOR AND IMMUNE CELLS IN CANCER PATIENTS:

Session 1: Tumor Immune microenvironment

• 9:50 — Karin de Visser
• 10:15 — Michele De Palma: Overcoming microenvironmental resistance to lung cancer immunotherapy
• 10:40 — Zvika Granot: Neutrophil-specific targeting as cancer immunotherapy
• 11:05 — Break

Session 2: Nanomedicine and TME

• 11:30 — Ronit Satchi-Fainaro
• 11:55 — Veronique Preat: NANOMEDICINE TO TARGET THE MICROENVIRONMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCER AND GLIOBLASTOMA
• 12:20 — Maria Vicent
• 12:45 — Lunch

Session 3: short talks

• 13:30 — short talk from abstract
• 13:40 — short talk from abstract
• 13:50 — short talk from abstract
• 14:00 — short talk from abstract
• 14:15 — Flash talks — Pitches - 20 each 1.5 min + 10 min discussion
• 15:00 — Break

Publishing in Nature · Nanomedicine + TME

• 15:15 — Publishing in Nature — Anna Dart - Nature publishing: PUBLISHING IN THE NATURE PORTFOLIO JOURNALS
• 15:45 — Mansoor Amiji: Modulation of the Tumor Microenvironment with microRNA Nano-Vectors
• 16:05 — Natalie Artzi: Synergizing immunology and oncology using biomaterials to enhance cancer therapy efficacy (tentative title)
• 16:25 — Keynote lecture — Leaf Huang: Nano Intervention of Tumor Microenvironment to Improve Therapy

Friday 24 September 2021 · Session 5: Tumor stroma and ECM

• 9:00 — Arne Ostman: IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL CAF-SUBSETS IN COLORECTAL AND LUNG CANCER WITH DIFFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATIONS TO DRIVER MUTATIONS, IMMUNE FEATURES AND OUTCOME
• 9:25 — Erik Sahai
• 9:50 — Luuk Hawinkels: Enhanced antigen cross-presentation in human colorectal cancer-associated fibroblasts through upregulation of the lysosomal protease Cathepsin S
• 10:15 — to be filled

Session 6: Targeting metastasis

• 10:40 — Isaac Witz: A VICIOUS CYCLE OF MELANOMA-MICROGLIA CROSSTALK PROMOTES BRAIN METASTASIS
• 11:05 — Janine Erler: Targeting the metastatic niche
• 11:25 — Break
• 11:45 — Rajkumar Savai: “Lung Microenvironmental Niche in Cancerogenesis”

Short talks

• 12:15 — short talk from abstract
• 12:25 — short talk from abstract
• 12:35 — short talk from abstract
• 12:45 — short talk from abstract
• Lunch

Session: Nano-targeted therapies

• 13:30 — Helena Florindo: Multifunctional nanovaccines for vascular regulation of antitumor immunity
• 13:55 — Marcelle Machluf
• 14:20 — to be filled
• 14:45 — Pitches - 20 each 1.5 min + 8 min discussion
• 15:00 — Break

Session 8: Imaging TME

• 15:15 — Shawn Chen: Modulating Immunosuppressive Tumor Environment with Nanomedicine
• 15:40 — Miles Miller: Imaging the impacts of cellular phosphosignaling on nanotherapy action in tumors
• 16:10 — Twan Lammers
• 16:40 — to be filled — Paolo Deccuzi
• 17:10 — Closure + prizes