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New Targets and Delivery Systems in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Monday, March 5, 2007

8:00 am   Welcome
      Albert Deisseroth, MD, PhD
      Nagy Habib, ChM, FRCS
     

Jan Schnitzer, MD

Ralph Weichselbaum, MD
8:15 PLENARY KEY NOTE ADDRESS:  

The IKK Complex: Connecting Inflammation to Cancer
Michael Karin, PhD, University of California, San Diego, CA

 

SESSION I: TUMOR INFLAMMATION, PROGENITOR CELLS AND THE IMMUNE RESPONSE
SESSION CHAIR: INDER VERMA

9:00  

Hematopoietic Precursers of Vasculogensis
Shanhin Raffii, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University & Georgia Tech, New York, NY

9:30  

NOVEL Cancer Models Using Lentiviral Vectors
Inder Verma, PhD, The Salk Insitute, La Jolla, CA

10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Adoptive Cellular Immunotherapy for Solid Cancers: Limitations and Future Opportunities
Marianne Hokland, MD, Aarhus University, Denmark
11:00 Suppressor T-cells
David Klatzmann, MD, PhD, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris France
11:30

Auto Immune Disease
Martin Weigert, PhD, Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

12:00 pm Harnessing the Immune System to Treat Minimal Residual Disease
Christopher Contag, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
12:30 Lunch

SESSION II: IMAGING TUMORS AND THEIR MICROENVIRONMENT AND TARGETS
SESSION CHAIR: HARVEY HERSHMAN

1:30   New Targets in the Tumor Stroma for Cancer Therapy
Ralph Reisfeld, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
2:00  

Proteomic Mapping and Imaging of Endothelium for Penetration into Solid Tumor
Jan E. Schnitzer, M.D., Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA

2:30   Imaging of Signal Transduction Pathways and Stem Cells
Juri Gelovani, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
3:00   Coffee Break
3:30   Biomedical Nanotechnology for In-vivo Tumor Targeting and Imaging
Shuming Nie, PhD, Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
   
4:00   Proteolytic Pathways as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer
Bonnie Sloane, PhD, Wayne State University of Medicine, Detroit, MI
4:30   Molecular Imaging of Cancer Progression & Cancer Gene Therapy
Harvey Hershman, PhD, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
5:00   VISA to Cancer Therapy
Mien-Chie Hung, PhD, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
    LATE BREAKING ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS
5:30 Selective Ablation of Metastatic Disease with Integrin avB3 Targeted Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
Bharat Majeti, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
5:45 A Novel Target for the Development of Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Kathleen Mulder, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
6:00 Apoptosis Improves the Distribution and Efficacy of Replication-Competent Herpes Simplex Virus in Solid Tumor
Satoshi Nagano, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
6:15 Dissecting the Oncogenic Mechanism of Cancer Specific Mutant P13K
Li Zhao, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA
6:30 Adjourn to Welcome Reception

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

  KEY NOTE ADDRESS:
8:00 am

Drugging the Cancer Genome: Integrating Molecular Targets and Biomarkers
Paul Workman, Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute for Cancer Research, Sutton UK

SESSION III: NEW TARGETS IN CANCER CELLS
SESSION CHAIR: DOUGLAS GREEN

8:45

Intracellular ROS and Bcl-2 Family: Friends or Foes
Shazib Pervaiz , M.D, PhD, National University of Singapore

9:15 Passenger Proteins and the Regulation of the Cell Cycle
Robert Margolis, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
9:45

Mitochondria, p53, and Apoptosis
Douglas R. Green, PhD, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN

10:15 Coffee Break
10:30  

Phenotypes Override Genotypes in Normal and Malignant Breast Tissue
Mina Bissell, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

11:00   Ubiquitin-Dependent Proteolysis and Cell Cycle Control
Charles Spruck, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
11:30   DNA Damage and p21 Regulation
Arun Fotedar, MD, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA

12:00 pm

   

Role of Retroelement RNAs in Cancer
Alan Garen, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT

12:30     Lunch

SESSION IV: MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR TARGETING, NANOMEDICINE AND VECTOR THERAPY
SESSION CHAIR: MINA BISSEL

1:30       Dancing with uPAR: Interaction of Multiple Ligands with the Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor (uPAR) Choreographs Tumor Progression
Andrew Mazar, Attenuon, LLC, San Diego, CA
2:00       Systemic Delivery of Oncolytic Viruses for Virotherapy
Leonard Seymour, BSc, PhD, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2:30 Angiogenesis Inhibition by Stabilizing the DFG/P-Loop Interaction in Raf
David Cheresh, PhD, University of California, San Diego, CA
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30

Targeted Cancer Gene Therapy with a Novel Activity of Tumor Tissue Penetration
Chae-OK Yun, PhD, Yonsei University of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

4:00 Vector Targeting of Cancer
David Curiel, MD, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham
4:30

Molecular Therapy of Breast Cancer
Rakesh Kumar, PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

5:00 Molecular Basis of Cell Fate Decision in Response to Genotoxic Stress: Live or Die
Sam Lee, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

LATE BREAKING ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS

5:30   p14ARF/Topoisomerase I Complex Regulates Chemosensitivity in a Serine Phosphrylation Dependent Manner
Keya Bandyopadhyay, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
5:45

Vector Vaccination Can Induce Potent Immune Response When Combined With Vector Targeted Chemotherapy
Hakan Akbulut, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

6:00

EGFR/Src Kinase-Dependent Pathway of Tumor Cell Invasion and Metastasis
Jill Ricono, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, San Diego, CA

6:15 Targeting Tumors Overexpressing EGFRs by Polymeric Nanotherapeutics Armed with Specific Monoclonal Antibodies and Doxorubicin
Tomas Mrkvan, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
6:30

Adjourn to Wine and Cheese Reception and Poster Viewing

 

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

KEY NOTE ADDRESS:

8:00 am   Targeting Immunoregulatory Cells as Novel Cancer Immunotherapy
Tyler Curiel, MD, San Antonio Cancer Institute, San Antonio,Texas
     

SESSION V: EMERGING STRATEGIES FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
SESSION CHAIR: RALPH WEICHSELBAUM

8:45      

Discovery of Novel Tumor Targets in Gynecologic Cancer
Je Ho Lee, MD, Professor, Samsung Cancer Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

9:15

Tumor Genotype Determines the Efficacy of Genetically Modified HSV-1 in Experimental Tumors
Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, D.K. University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, IL

9:45 Vector Vaccines for Cancer
Albert Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
10:15

Virotherapy for Multiple Myeloma
Stephen Russell, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN

10:45 Advances in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant
Richard Champlin, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
11:15 Targeted and Shielded Adenovectors
Imre Kovesdi, PhD, VectorLogics, Birmingham, AL
11:45 Vector Vaccine for AML
Farzin Farzaneh, PhD, The Rayne Institute, King's College London, UK
12:15 pm Gene and Stem Cell Therapy
Nagy Habib, ChM, FRCS, Imperial College London, London, UK
12:45 Vector Therapy of Glioblastoma
Noriyuki Kasahara, MD, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1:15

Closing Remarks & Final Adjournment

         
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