AGORA workshop "ORGANOIDS IN CANCER RESEARCH"

Auditorium PATERNOT AGORA Rue du Bugnon 25A, 1005 Lausanne

24.11.2021 09:00 - 18:30

Invited Speakers:

Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht): Organoids as disease models

Prisca Liberali (FMI, Basel) :  Self organization properties of organoids 

Daniela Thommen (NKI, Amsterdam) : From patients to tumor avatars

Matthias Lütolf (EPFL/Roche, Lausanne/Basel) : Organoids in drug discovery

Mark A. Rubin (UniBern, Bern) : Patient-derived organoids and disease models

 

Program for the day

9:00-9:20 Welcome and registration

9:20: Introduction

9:30 – 11:00  Plenary session 1 (30 min talks)

Prisca Liberali (FMI, Basel) :  Self organization properties of organoids 

Daniela Thommen (NKI, Amsterdam) : From patients to tumor avatars

Matthias Lütolf (EPFL/Roche, Lausanne/Basel) : Organoids in drug discovery

11:00 - 12:00:  Poster session

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00  – 14:00  Plenary session 2  (30 min talks)

Hans Clevers (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht): Organoids as disease models

Mark A. Rubin (UniBern, Bern) : Patient-derived organoids and disease models

14:15 – 15:45  Break out sessions on specific topics - including short talks chosen from abstracts

See themes below. 

16:00 –  17:30  Plenary session 3  (Recaps of breakout sessions, and short talks to be chosen from abstracts 12 + 3 min)

17:30 – 18:00  Poster session  

18:00-19:00  Apero (seated in the cafeteria of Agora) and poster awards

 

Breakout sessions will include invited panel presentations and  selected talks chosen from abstracts, followed by group discussion  (20-30 persons/themes). We ask you to indicate your theme preferences for participation.

 The themes are :

1 - Tumor explants and organoids (co-)culture as in vitro models of cancer – How complex is simple enough

2 - Omics’ and data integration from ex vivo complex systems over time – Standardization and AI

3 - Drug and genetic screening with organoids – Technical challenges

4 - Patient avatars for personalised medicine – Clinical application

5 - Complementarity of animal models and human organoids – Proof of concept and 3R

 

About this workshop

 For more information go to https://go.epfl.ch/organoid-cancer-workshop

gaspard.pardon(at)epfl.ch    susan.gasser(at)isrec.ch 

 

THIS IS A COVID-FREE EVENT / ONLY VACCINATION QR CODE OR PROOF OF RECOVERY WILL BE ACCEPTED (NO covid test accepted)

 

The registration is closed - the maximum number of participants has been reached. For any further information, please take contact with the organisation as above-mentioned.

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