Nordic Life Science Days 2017: Super Session 7 – Transformative Oncology
Advancing Cancer Immunotherapy by novel partnerships, bugs and bytes.
The session gathers a group of experts with complementary expertise to present and discuss recent approaches in Cancer Immunotherapy. Tremendous scientific progress resulted in real clinical breakthroughs and a growing number of cancers are now successfully treated with immunotherapy. However, many challenges remain and for tackling these collaborations among various disciplines is essential. A set of compact presentations will highlight how players from pharma, biotech and academia advance the field and what we can learn from microbiologists and machine learning experts.
Place: Plenary Room – Main Hall, Malmömässan, Malmø, Sweden
The programme:
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Timeslot |
Topic / final titles to be confirmed |
Speaker |
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11:15 – 11:20 |
Introduction by Moderator |
Benedicte Bakke, Senior Advisor, Int. Healthcare, Int. Corporate Division DNB |
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11:20 – 11:30 |
Cancer Immunotherapy: State-of the Art 2017 |
Khatereh Ahmadi, Executive Director, Oncology Search and Evaluation Lead, European Hub, MSD |
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11:30 – 11:40 |
Mono- and bispecific antibodies for tumor directed Immunotherapy |
Per Norlen, CEO Alligator |
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11:40 – 11:55 |
The Future of Oncology – Gazing into the Crystal Ball |
Stefan Ries, Global Head of External Innovation, Oncology Discovery, pRED, Roche |
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11:55 – 12:05 |
The Microbiome and Cancer immunotherapy |
Christophe Bonny, CSO Enterome |
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12:05 – 12:15 |
Patient stratification and companion diagnostics – where are we heading? |
Henrik Winther, Senior VP Precision Diagnostics, Immunovia AB |
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12:15 – 12:25 |
Machine learning / AI for patient stratification and neoantigen discovery |
Richard Stratford, CEO OncoImmunity |
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12:25 – 12:30 |
Academic medical centers as partners for I-O innovation |
Gary Sclar, VP Dana-Farber Innovations, Dana- Farber Cancer Inst. |
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12:30 – 12:35 |
Wrap-up |
Moderator Joint speaker lunch afterwards, details to follow. |
For more information about the programme at NLS Days 2017, please visit the NLS Days webpage.
