Scientific Program
Scientific Program
The scientific program includes plenary lectures, oral presentations and poster presentations. During the registration procedure participants could indicate whether they want to present a poster or whether they apply for an oral presentation.
The size of the posters is 1 - 1.20 m height and 1 m width. Larger formats cannot be accommodated on the boards. The poster will hang during the entire meeting. Posters are not subject to a selection procedure. All posters in the range of the topic and in accordance with the rules for good scientific practice are accepted.
View scientific program here.
Plenary Speakers
Gabriele Bergers
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
Campus Gasthuisberg
Herestraat 49, bus 912
3000 Leuven, Belgium
Title of Presentation: Metabolic traits of glioma invasion
Giulio F. Draetta
Genomic Medicine Department, Unit 1954
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
1881 East Road
Houston TX 77054-3005, USA
Title of Presentation: A novel potential therapeutic target in glioblastoma
Rainer Glass
Neurochirurgische Forschung am Klinikum der Universität München
Walter Brendel Zentrum für Experimentelle Medizin (WBEx)
LMU Klinikum der Universität München
Marchioninistr. 27
81377 Munich, Germany
Title of Presentation: Identified subsets of glioblastoma undergo Cannabidiol-induced cell-death by modulation of RelA-signaling
Antonio Iavarone
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology
Institute for Cancer Genetics
Columbia University Medical Center
New York NY 10032, USA
Title of Presentation: Mechanisms of oncogenesis and precision medicine of glioblastoma
Marcel Kool
Kitz Hopp Children's Cancer Center
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Title of Presentation: Pediatric brain tumors: how to translate all the molecular data into successful treatments for patients?
Itay Tirosh
Department of Molecular Cell Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science
Wolfson building, room 162
Rehovot, Israel
Title of Presentation: Dissecting intra-tumor and inter-tumor heterogeneity in glioma
Manuel Valiente
CNIO - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas
C/ Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3
28029 Madrid, Spain
Title of Presentation: Exploiting the translational potential of established and new brain metastasis models