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CCBIO Annual Symposium 2017

CCBIO will host its 5th annual symposium April 19-20 2017 at Solstrand Hotel outside of Bergen.

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Welcome

We have the pleasure of inviting you to the 5th CCBIO Symposium, April 19^th-20^th 2017 at Solstrand hotel. The 2016 symposium was a success with more than 200 participants and we expect the 2017 symposium to be at least as good. To participate, you will need to register within April 6th.

As you can see from the pre-final program below, we have secured a range of international and national speakers and one of the highlights will be the talk by chairman of the Nobel Foundation, Carl-Henrik Heldin. The symposium will be a combination of talks by invited international speakers and other senior and junior researchers, extended poster sessions where younger researchers can present their work, and ample time for interaction between the participants. The symposium is open for all, so please feel free to pass on this information.

Scientific program:

Day 1, Wednesday April 19, 2017

09:00-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:15 Lars A. Akslen (Director of CCBIO): Introduction to CCBIO Symposium 2017.

Chair: Jean Paul Thiery

10:15-11:00 John Heymach: EMT, immunomodulation and therapeutic resistance
11:00-11:45 Angela Nieto: The partial EMT and cell plasticity in fibrosis and cancer
11:45-12:30 Robert Gale: What precisely is precision oncology and will it work? (abstract)

12:30-14:30 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION I

Young Investigators - Chair: Bjørn Tore Gjertsen

14:30-14.50 Erling A. Høivik: The genetic evolution of endometrial cancer metastasis
14:50-15:10 Randi Hovland: Liquid biopsy biomarkers in clinical trials
15:10-15:30 Oddmund Nordgård: Liquid biopsies in pancreatic cancer
15:30-15:50 Thomas Arnesen: N-terminal acetyltransferases - novel cancer drug targets (abstract)
15:50-16:10 Eirik Tranvåg: Biomarkers and potential impact on priority setting (abstract)

16:10-16:40 COFFEE

16:40-16:50 Roger Strand: Book Presentation: “Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics, and Society”

Chair: Oddbjørn Straume

16:50-17:20 Diane Bielenberg: Expression of Neuropilins in the Epithelium and Endothelium are Biomarkers of Cancer Progression
17:20-17:50 Kristin Taskén: What’s up with β-adrenergic receptor signaling and prostate cancer?

19:30 DINNER

Day 2: Thursday April 20, 2017

Chair: Donald Gullberg

09:00-09:45 Carl Henrik Heldin: Signaling via TGFb receptors: possible targets in tumor treatment
09:45-10:15 Jean-Christoph Bourdon: The cell response to anticancer drugs is defined by the p53 protein isoforms in mutant TP53 cells (abstract)
10:15-10:45 Krister Wennerberg: Systems medicine methods for identification of stratified leukemia therapies and their predictive biomarkers

10:45-11:15 COFFEE

Chair: Karl Henning Kalland

11:15-11:45 Salem Chouaib: Effect of hypoxic stress on the cytotoxic anti-tumor response
11:45-12:15 Spiros Kotopoulis: Targeting cells with ultrasound: from theory to reality (abstract)

12:30-14:15 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION II

Chair: Emmet McCormack

14:15-14.45 Frederic Amant: Patient derived xenografts as a preclinical model
14:45-15:15 Janine Terra Erler: ECM remodelling during cancer progression.
15:15-15:45 Jeanette Wood: Role of pharma, biotech, academia and funding bodies in drug discovery innovation
15:45-16:00 Bjørn Tore Gjertsen (Co-Director of CCBIO): Closing remarks.

See printer friendly version of the program here.

Conference

19.04.2017 - 09.00–20.04.2017 - 17.00

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Contact person: Geir Olav Løken

Poster abstracts

You can find a pdf of "The book of poster abstracts" on this link, a collection of onepage abstracts of each poster.

You can also find a list here of who will be presenting their poster at which day of the symposium.

Registration

Use this registration link.

Venue

Read more about the venue, the historical hotel Solstrand Hotel & Bad at this link.

Practical information

The heavily subsidized registration fee is 2000 NOK/240 Euro per person. In order to enable us to accommodate 200 participants in the 138 rooms available, we are dependent upon as many as possible sharing rooms (up to four). So, please indicate if and with whom, you are willing to share your room when you register online.

Find more practical information on this link.

CCBIO

The Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) is a Norwegian Centre of Excellence established at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in 2013. CCBIO works on cancer biomarkers and tailored treatment. The researchers have a special focus on tumor-microenvironment interactions and their importance for metastatic spread and aggressive disease.

Fifth annual symposium

CCBIO organizes its fifth annual symposium at Solstrand April 19-20 2017. The CCBIO symposium is a combination of invited, renowned international and national speakers and two long poster sessions during which younger researchers present their research. The selection of which participants that can present their posters is done on the basis of the submitted abstracts.