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: Raphaële Bombart
10:00 Welcome Speech – Prof. Christophe Pierreux
10:10 What is going on with blood vessels during pancreatitis? (Elias Aajja)
10:25 Novel combination therapies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer (Margaux Wulleman)
10:40 Identification of co-activator(s) of TGF-ß1 at the surface of activated Tregs (Mathieu Jamez)
10:55 Miltenyi (Platinum sponsor)
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee Break & Chat with Sponsors
11:40 - 12:40 Oral presentations - Chairperson: Christophe Vanderaa
11:40 Transcriptional overlap links DNA hypomethylation with DNA hypermethylation at adjacent promoters in cancer (Jean Fain)
11:55 Proximity labelling assay reveals the interplay between key processes during the attack of the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (Ophélie Remy) - elected best oral presentation
12:10 Structural basis of oncogenesis by mutants of calreticulin (Nicolas Papadopoulos)
12:25 ThermoFisher Scientific (Platinum sponsor)
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch Break & Chat with Sponsors
13:40 – 14:40 Oral presentations - Chairperson: Pierre Van Meerbeeck
13:40 Genetic predisposition to systemic sclerosis (Pierre Maus)
13:55 Impact of the phosphorylation of single stranded RNA viruses RNA-dependent RNA polymerases on viral replication (Camille Duflos)
14:10 The journey of lipoproteins through the LolCDE complex (Alexandre Thurman)
14:25 Bio-Techne (Platinum sponsor)
14:40 – 15:40 Poster Session & Chat with Sponsors
15:45 – 16:30 Oral presentations - Chairperson: Francesco Caligiore
15:45 Understanding and targeting aspartate metabolism in the leukemic niche (Hernan Andres Tirado Cardenas)
16:00 Identification of pancreatic cell types in the origin of human pancreatic cancer (Memoona Rajput Bhatti)
16:15 Functional testing of candidate genes for Familial Hodgkin Lymphoma (Hiba Maalouf)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break & Vote for Best Presentation/Poster
17:00 – 17:30 Awards & Concluding remarks
17:30 – 18:30 Closing drink
Organizing Committee: Elias Aajja, Lucas Potier, Pierre-Hubert Desimpel, Joanne Péters