Agenda
Time
Program Title
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10
Welcome and Introduction
Bradly Wouters, PhD, Executive Vice President of Science and Research, University Health Network
Keith Stewart, MD, Vice President, Clinical and Lab MedicineClinical and Lab, and Director of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
Bradly Wouters, PhD, Executive Vice President of Science and Research, University Health Network
Keith Stewart, MD, Vice President, Clinical and Lab MedicineClinical and Lab, and Director of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
CANCER GENOMICS
Session Chair: TBD
9:10 – 9:50
KEYNOTE: Extrachromosomal DNA and its Impact in Cancer
Speaker: Paul Mischel, MD, Stanford University
Speaker: Paul Mischel, MD, Stanford University
9:50 – 10:20
Title: Next Generation ctDNA Technologies
Speaker: Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
Speaker: Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
10:20 – 10:50
Title: Drug Tolerant Persister Cells and Treatment Resistance in Cancer
Speaker: Erica Tsang, MD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Speaker: Erica Tsang, MD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
10:50 – 11:05
Panel Discussion
Panelists: Paul Mischel, Aadel Chaudhuri, Catherine O’Brien
Panelists: Paul Mischel, Aadel Chaudhuri, Catherine O’Brien
11:05 – 11:20
Break
Debate Moderator: Kelly Metcalfe, RN, PhD, Women’s College Hospital
11:20 – 11:40
Debate: FOR – Universal germline sequencing should be offered to all adult patients with a new cancer diagnosis
Speaker: Raymond Kim, MD, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Speaker: Raymond Kim, MD, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
11:40 – 12:00
Debate: AGAINST
Speaker: Intan Schrader, MD, PhD, BC Cancer
Speaker: Intan Schrader, MD, PhD, BC Cancer
12:00 - 12:05
Debate: FOR (rebuttal)
12:05 - 12:10
Debate: AGAINST(rebuttal)
12:10 - 1:00
Lunch
TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY
Session Chair: TBD
1:00 – 1:40
KEYNOTE: Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Cancer
Speaker: Wolf H. Fridman, MD, University of Paris
Speaker: Wolf H. Fridman, MD, University of Paris
1:40 – 2:10
Title: Tumor Microenvironment and Leukemia
Speaker: Anastasia Tikhonova, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Speaker: Anastasia Tikhonova, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
2:10 – 2:25
Title: Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Head and Neck Cancer
Speaker: Grégoire Marret, MD, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Speaker: Grégoire Marret, MD, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
2:25 – 2:35
Panel Discussion
Panelists: Wolf Fridman, Anastasia Tikhonova, Grégoire Marret, Catherine Sautès-Fridman
Panelists: Wolf Fridman, Anastasia Tikhonova, Grégoire Marret, Catherine Sautès-Fridman
2:35 – 2:50
Break
Session Chair: TBD
2:50 - 3:20
Title: Multi-omic Analysis: Linking Data Science to Molecular Biology
Speaker: Linghua Wang, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Speaker: Linghua Wang, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:20 – 3:50
Title: Updates on Cell Therapies
Speaker: Brad Nelson, PhD, BC Cancer Research
Speaker: Brad Nelson, PhD, BC Cancer Research
3:50 – 4:00
Panel Discussion
Panelists: Linghua Wang, Brad Nelson
Panelists: Linghua Wang, Brad Nelson
4:00 – 4:05
Closing Remarks