Workshop Organoids in Cancer Research

Organoids in Cancer Research Workshop Program 24 November 2021

Organised by

Plenary speakers

Hans Clevers - Hubrecht Institute, NL

Prisca Liberali - FMI, Basel

Mark Rubin - BCPM, Bern

Daniela Thommen - NKI, Amsterdam

Matthias Lutolf - EPFL/Roche, Basel

Program 09:00 - 09:20

Welcome and registration

09:20 - 09:30

Introduction by Susan Gasser, ISREC Foundation and Gaspard Pardon, EPFL Bioengineering and Technology platform/AGORA

09:30 - 11:00

Plenary session (3x30 min. talks + questions)

11:00 - 13:00

Poster session

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Plenary session (2x30 min.talks + questions)

14:15 - 15:45

Break out sessions with short talks on top 3 or 4 selected themes • Tumor explants and organoids (co-)culture as in vitro models of cancer • ‘Omics’ and data integration from ex vivo complex systems over time - Standardization and AI • Drug and genetic screening with organoids Technical challenges • Patient avatars for personalised medicine Clinical application • Complementarity of animals models and human organoids - Proof of concept and 3R

16:00 - 17:30

Short talks selected from abstracts (5x12 min. + 3 min questions) and short recap of breakout sessions (3-4x5 min.)

17:30 - 19:00

Apero and poster award

Organizers

Gaspard Pardon - EPFL Bioengineering and Technology platform

Susan Gasser - ISREC Foundation

Michele De Palma - EPFL Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Tumor Microenvironment

Matthias Lutolf - EPFL Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering / The Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering

Sponsors

Center of PhenoGenomics

Agora Cancer Research Center Rue du Bugnon 25A CH- 1005 Lausanne www.isrec.ch/en/agora/