Response and Resistance in Cancer Therapy

BACR Conference: Response and Resistance in Cancer Therapy

University of Kent 8th-10th July 2024

Day 1: Monday 8th July

12:00        Registration and Lunch        
13:00        Welcome (conference organisers)

Session 1:      (Chair: Mark Wass)
        
13:15        Gad Getz (Broad Institute / MIT, USA)
        
13:45        Colm Ryan (University College Dublin, Ireland)

                 The contribution of paralog buffering to tumour robustness
        
14:15         Selected talk 1    

14:30         Selected talk 2

14:45         Selected talk 3    

15:00 - 15:45    Coffee Break        

15:45        Martin Michaelis (University of Kent,UK)    
        
16:15         Selected talk 4
    
16:30         Hilde Loge Nilsen (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)    
        
17:00        James Brenton (CRUK Cambridge Institute)
        
17:30        Drinks reception & Poster session        
19:30        Dinner        

Day 2: Tuesday 9th July

Session 2:      (Chair: Michelle Garrett)

09:30        Johann de Bono (Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
         
10:00        Selected talk 5
        
10:15        Selected talk 6

10:30 - 11:15    Coffee Break    

11:15         Ilse Rooman (VU Brussels)

                  Deciphering the Mosaic: Spatial Heterogeneity within Pancreatic Cancer
            
11:45        Selected talk 7
        
12:00        Selected talk 8

12:15         Benjamin Taylor (AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK)

12:45 - 14:30    Lunch & Poster session

Session 3:      (Chair: Martin Michaelis)

14:30         Angeliki Malliri (CRUK Manchester Institute)

                  RAS and RAC GTPase signalling in lung cancer
    
15:00          Selected talk 9

15:15          Selected talk 10

15:15-16:15    Coffee Break    

16:15          Roland Rad (Technical Institute of Munich)

16:45          Xin Lu (Ludwig Institute, Oxford) 

17:15 – 18:30    Drinks reception & Poster session
    
19:00        Conference Dinner    

Day 3:         Wednesday 10th July

Session 4:     (Chair: Tim Fenton)

09:30           Mariam Jamal Hanjani (UCL)
        
10:00           Rachel Grimley (Cancer Research Horizons. UK) 

                    Mechanistic Insight in Cancer Drug Discovery:  Timining is Everything 

                            
10:30           Selected talk 11
    
10:45           Selected talk 12

11:00 - 11:45    Coffee Break    

11:45            Selected talk 13    
        
12:00            Selected talk 14

12:15:00       Selected talk 15

12:30            Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
        
13:00            Closing remarks and prizes    

13:15:           Packed lunch to take away, departure.