ESCI Council: Leonilde Bonfrate, Stefano Ministrini 
Invited Organizer(s): João Conde, Paula Videira
Meeting room: 

Wednesday, 3 June 

13.30-15.00 Session 1.1  Tumour Immunology and Cancer Microenvironment
Chair: Paula Videira
Chair: Marco Raffaelli

13.30-13.55 Expanding and engineering gamma-delta T cells for cancer immunotherapy Bruno Santos Silva

13.55-14.20 Neutrophils in Breast Cancer progression and therapy response: the good, the bad and the villain Guadalupe Cabral

14.20-14.45 Tumor Secretome-Mediated Proteome Remodeling in Peripheral Immune Cells: Evidence from Lung Cancer and DLBCL Rune Matthiesen

14.45- 15.00 Controlling CAR-T Exhaustion by Targeting Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Validation of an in Silico Approach Zélia Silva

Coffee-break

15.30-17.00 Session 1.2 Novel therapeutic targets in clinical oncology   
Chair: Leonilde Bonfrate
Chair: Bruno Santos Silva

15.30-15.55 Turning sweet in oncology: glycans as immune-checkpoint in cancer with applications in cellular immunotherapy Salomé Pinho

15.55-16.20 Targeting Carbohydrates to Drive Innovation in Cell-Based Therapies Paula Videira

16.20-16.45 Novel therapeutic targets in thyroid cancer Marco Raffaelli

16.45-17.00 Incidence and differential diagnosis of parathyroid carcinoma and atypical tumours: the pTRANI (Parathyroid Retrospective Analysis of Neoplasms) italian multicenter study Marina Amendolagine

17:00-17:30 Opening ceremony

17:30-18:30 Opening lecture Prof. Nuno Sousa 

18:30-21:00 Welcome drink

Thursday, 4 June 

11.00-12.30 Session 1.3 Precision Medicine and Translational Oncology
Chair: Stefano Ministrini
Chair: Margarida Serra

11.00-11.25 Obesity and Adipose Tissue in Pancreatic Cancer: Mechanistic Links and Clinical Implications Leonilde Bonfrate

11.25-11.50 Transforming the landscape of CAR-T cell therapy–CARTmatters Project Claudia Lima

11.50-12.15  Fast and sensitive KRAS mutation detection: from solid to liquid biopsies and patient-derived organoids Alexandra Fernandes

12.15-12.30  Adipose-fueled lipid metabolism sustains peritoneal dissemination in diffuse gastric cancer Ricardo Amorim

13.30-14.30 Lunch & Poster Session (Group B)

14.30-16.00 Session 1.4  Gene and Cell Therapy in Oncology
Chair: João Conde
Chair: Beatrice Mainoli

14.30-14.55 Gene Therapy: Back to the Future Luis Pereira de Almeida

14.55-15.20 Regulatory T cells in chronic graft versus host disease João Lacerda

15.20-15.45 Advancing the manufacture of cell-based therapies: bridging engineering and cell biology Margarida Serra

15.45-16.00 Altered circadian gene expression signatures distinguish ovarian cancer patients from healthy individuals Daniel Kortzak