BACR Annual Meeting 2019
Novel combination strategies for cancer treatment:
current challenges and future directions
Program Registration Abstract Venue Sponsors
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| 8:30 | Optional shuttle bus pick-up at Antwerp-Berchem train station
(free but pre-registration mandatory, leaves at 8:30 sharp) |
| 9:00 | Registration & coffee |
| 9:30 – 12:15 | MORNING SESSION Chairs: Dirk Verellen & Julie Jacobs |
| 9:30 | Michael Baumann, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, DFKZ, Germany Radiation oncology in the era of personalized medicine |
| 10:00 | Conchita Vens, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
Biological fine-tuning of radiation beam power: DNA repair inhibitors and radiotherapy |
| 10:30 | Coffee break & poster viewing |
| 11:00 | Young investigators: oral presentations of 4 selected abstracts |
| 12:00 | BACR: general assembly |
| 12:15 – 13:30 | LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION |
| 13:30 – 16:30 | AFTERNOON SESSION Chairs: An Wouters & Christophe Deben |
| 13:30 | Patrizia Agostinis, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium Integrating immunogenic cell death within the landscape of current cancer immunotherapies |
| 14:00 | Young investigators: oral presentations of 4 selected abstracts |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | Carine Michiels, University of Namur, Belgium Radiosensitization through nanoparticles or synthetic lethality |
| 16:00 | Evelien Smits, University of Antwerp, Belgium Combination strategies with immune checkpoint targeting to improve immunotherapy outcome |
| 16:30 | Awards ceremony for best oral and poster presentations
Concluding remarks |
| 17:00 | Optional shuttle bus pick-up to Antwerp-Berchem train station
(free but pre-registration mandatory, leaves at 17:00 sharp) |