Belgian research couple rewarded for their work on incurable diseases
The Gagna & Van Heck International Prize for incurable diseases is awarded for the first time to a Belgian team.
10:00 – 11:10 Oral presentations - Chairpersons: HernánAndrésTirado
10:00 Welcome Speech – Prof. Christophe Pierreux
10:10 Insights on the interaction of the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex with stress-response regulator, RcsF (Reeda Harb)
10:25 Dual specificity of a T cell receptor in a CTL clone: targeting a TAP-dependent peptide derived from a tumor specific antigen and a peptide exclusively expressed on TAP-deficient cells (Florence Boon)
10:40 The failure to rescue an enzyme from autoinactivation causes an inborn error of metabolism (Jean Jacobs) - elected best oral presentation
10:55 GSK (Platinum sponsor)
11:10 - 12:10 Poster session & Chat with Sponsors
12:10 - 12:55 Oral presentations - Chairperson: chair: Mathieu Jamez
12:10 A pill a day to keep blood cancer away (Célina Nielsen)
12:25 TGFB1, TGFB2 and TGFB3 in systemic sclerosis (and other autoimmune/fibrotic diseases) (AnanyashreeKathotia)
12:40 Miltenyi (Platinum sponsor)
12:55 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Chat with Sponsors
14:00 – 14:45 Oral presentations - Chairperson: Camille Duflos
14:00 Investigating the Role of ROR2 in Regulating Tumor Immunity (Juliette de Lhoneux)
14:15 Suppressive neutrophils differentially affect subpopulations of CD8a+ T-cell (Nicolas Delhez)
14:30 Roles and therapeutic impact of miR-92a-1-5p in chronic myeloid leukemia (Joanne Péters)
14:45 – 15:45 Poster Session & Chat with Sponsors
15:45 – 16:30 Oral presentations - Chairperson: Lucas Potier
15:45 Unveiling the Intricacies of PD-1/PD-L1 Interaction: Insights into Intercellular Exchanges in Tumor-Immune Cell Crosstalk (Pierre-Hubert Desimpel)
16:00 Extracellular vesicles in red blood cell concentrates: development of an easy isolation protocol for a potential use in blood institutions and study of biogenesis mechanisms (Marine Ghodsi)
16:15 TGF-ß1 activating antibodies as a treatment for graft-versus-host disease (Severine Wautier)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break & Vote for Best Presentation/Poster
17:00 – 17:30 Awards & Concluding remarks
17:30 – 18:30 Closing drink
18:30 Dinner
Organizing Committee: Reeda Harb, Célina Nielsen, Lucas Potier
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