Crick Cancer Research Symposium 2022

Event Status: Book now : Event date: 3 October 2022 - 4 October 2022
Start time: 09:00 End time: - 17:00
Event Location: The Francis Crick Institute
Event Type: Symposia

This year's Crick Cancer Research Symposium will consider multiple angles of cancer research and provide a forum for lively discussion. Leading researchers from Europe and the UK will present their latest research alongside numerous presentations from early career researchers selected from submitted abstracts. Panel discussions and poster sessions, including prizes, will encourage further interactions.

2022 Crick Cancer symposium programme

Day 1 - Monday 3rd October

09:00
Registration and Coffee
09:30
Opening remarks by the organising committee
Session 1
Cancer as an aberrant tissue
09:40
Steven Pollard | Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre
“Synthetic super-enhancers enable cell type-selective expression of anti-cancer payloads for viral gene therapy”
10:05
Short talk 1 | Scott Haston | UCL
“Clearance of senescent macrophages ameliorates tumorigenesis in KRAS-driven lung cancer’’
10:20
Giulia Biffi | Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
"A subset of myofibroblastic CAFs promotes local metastatic dissemination in pancreatic cancer"
10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Short talk 2 | Catarina Pelicano | CRUK Cambridge Institute
“The TME shapes the epigenetic landscape of PDAC’’
11:30
Owen Sansom | Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute
"Tissue and mutation specific pathways for Wnt driven cancers"
11:55
Lunch break, exhibition and poster session 1 (odd numbers)
12:45 - sponsor talk from Purigen Biosystems (in-person and on Zoom)
13:00 - sponsor talk from Synthego (in-person and on Zoom)
Session 2
Metabolism and tissue ageing
14:00
Almut Schulze | German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
"USP28 controls SREBP2 and the mevalonate pathway to drive tumour growth in squamous cancer”
14:25
Short talk 3 | Aditya Shroff | UCL
“Molecular profiling of a novel somatic murine mutant-IDH model enables identification of high-risk mutant-IDH astrocytoma patient subgroup with defined TME’
14:40
Ping-Chih Ho | Ludwig Cancer Research
“Metabolic hurdles for T cells on fighting against tumors”.
15:05
Coffee Break
15:35
Short talk 4 | Zoi Diamantopoulou | ETH Zurich
“The metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep’’
15:50
Amaya Viros | Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
“Young and aged environmental cues shaping melanoma metastasis”
16:15
Flash Talks session 1
Yaiza Jung Garcia | The Francis Crick Institute
Callum Nattress | UCL
Jeanette Kittel | UCL
Felipe Rodrigues | The Francis Crick Institute
Colin Ratcliffe | The Francis Crick Institute
Anika Offergeld | Cardiff University
16:45
Posters, meet day one speakers and networking drinks

DAY 2 – Tuesday 4th October

Session 3
Deconstructing and reconstructing the Tumour Microenvironment
09:15
Danijela Vignjevic | Institute Curie
"Cancer-associated fibroblasts, good or bad guys"
09:40
Short talk 5 | Hamid Mohammadi | The Francis Crick Institute
“A pro-invasive mechanical cross-talk between cancer cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts’’
09:55
Chris Tape | UCL Cancer Institute
"Single-cell Signalling Analysis of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids''
10:20
Coffee Break
10:50
Flash Talks session 2
Anthony Battram | IDIBAPS
Alicia Bruzos | The Francis Crick Institute
Yaser Atlasi | Queen’s University Belfast
Marcos Ramos | Barts Cancer Institute
Victoria Tsang | King's College London
Joaquin Cabeza | University of Cambridge
Krupa Thakkar | UCL & the Francis Crick Institute
11:20
Short talk 6 | Beatrice Malacrida | Queen Mary University of London
"Reconstruction of the metastatic tumour microenvironment of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer"
11:35
Raza Ali | Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
"Highly multiplexed imaging for personalised breast immuno-oncology"
12:00
Lunch break, exhibition and poster session 2 (even numbers)
12:45 - sponsor talk from MGI (in-person and on Zoom)
13:55
Panel discussion
Session 4
Harnessing the immune system for cancer therapy
14:30
Jessica Strid | Imperial College London
"Immune surveillance in epithelial tissue and tumours"
14:55
Short talk 7 | Chun Wai Wong | University of Manchester
“Inhibition of PARP14 restores response to α-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibition’’
15:10
Jean Emmanuelle Sarry | Toulouse Cancer Research Center
"Drug persisters arise from mitochondrially and metabolically distinct cell populations in acute myeloid leukemia"
15:25
Coffee Break and meet day two speakers
16:15
Short talk 8 | Roberto Vendramin | The Francis Crick Institute
“Induction of anti-tumour immunogenicity via modulation of nonsense-mediated decay’’
16:30
John Maher | King’s College London
“CAR T-cell immunotherapy of solid tumours – moving through the generations”
17:00
Prizes (best flash talk, best selected abstract talk, best poster)
Concluding remarks by the organising committee