Cancer Research Seminar 30.11.2021

Seminar (Auditorium 1 (KUH) / Teams) is open for everyone interested in current cancer research at FICAN East area.

Registration by 15th of November here.

Programme

13.00 - 13.05 Opening of the seminar Timo Nykopp

13:05 - 14:15 Session 1 - Short presentations of cancer research, chair Arto Mannermaa

• Aino Rönkä: IOPredict – Predictive Biomarkers of Cancer immune check point inhibition therapy
• Ville Paappanen: Efficiency of lung cancer care in Finland
• Otto Jokelainen: Hyaluronan and kidney cancer
• Mauro Scaravilli: RNA-binding proteins in oncogenic regulation of prostate cancer
• Heidi Kaljunen: Subclone eradication analysis identifies targets for enhanced cancer therapy and reveals L1 retrotransposition as a dynamic source of cancer heterogeneity
• Stralina Eneh: Micro-RNAs in breast cancer
• Maarit Ahtiainen: Immune cell profiling in cancer
• Jouni Härkönen: Oncogenic redox signaling and tumor immunity

14.15 - 14.35 Coffee

14:35 - 15:50 Session 2 - Clinical research, chair Outi Kuittinen

14.35 - 14.50 Jan Seppälä: Advanced breast cancer radiotherapy in KUH

14.50 - 15.05 Stefan Becker: ALLTogether - toward individualized treatment for childhood ALL

15.05 - 15.20 Merja Heinäniemi: Deep genomic characterization of early treatment response in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

15.20 - 15.35 Teijo Kuopio: Local experiences in the application and development of molecular pathology research data and methods for clinical patient work

15.35 - 15.50 Juha Väyrynen: Multipleximmunohistochemistry for cancer research and personalized medicine

15.50 - 16.15 Discussion