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/