Wednesday, December 3
- 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
- 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM: OPENING REMARKS
- 1:35 PM – 3:05 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 1 - BEYOND GENOMICS: THE ADVANCES OF MOLECULAR PROFILING
Talk 1:
Christoph Borchers, PhD. Director of Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre and Full Professor at the Department of Oncology, McGill University
Talk 2:
Arielle Elkrief, MD. Co-Director of Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) Microbiome Centre; Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, Université de Montréal
Talk 3:
Student Talk - TBD
- 03:05 PM – 03:30 PM: COFFEE BREAK
- 03:30 PM – 05:30 AM: PANEL DISCUSSION 2 - D2R: SHOWCASING RNA THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS
Talk 1:
Yasser Riazalhosseini, PhD. Head of the Cancer Genomics program at the McGill University Genome Centre; Associate Professor at the Department of Human Genetics, McGill University
Talk 2
Kim Ma, MD. Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, McGill University
Talk 3
Ramy Saleh, MD, MSc. Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, McGill University
Talk 4
Student - TBD
- 05:00 PM –07:00 PM: NETWORKING AND POSTER EXHIBITION
Thursday, December 4
- 8:00 AM – 80:30 PM: REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
- 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM: PANEL DISCUSSION 3 - THE VOICE OF THE PATIENT
Talk 1:
Eva Villalba, MBA, MSc. Executive Director, Quebec Cancer Coalition
Talk 2:
Catalina Lopez-Correa, PhD. Chief Global Strategy Officer at Genome Canada
Talk 3:
Student - TBD
- 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: COFFEE BREAK
- 10:30 AM – 12:00 AM: PANEL DISCUSSION 4 - ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS IN LIQUID BIOPSIES
Talk 1:
Adriana Aguliar, PhD. Scientific Director of the Cancer Genomics and Translational Research Laboratory
Talk 2:
Trevor Pugh, PhD. Director of Genomics Program & Senior Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Professor at Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Talk 3:
Student - TBD
- 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM: LUNCH BREAK
- 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM: POSTER EXHIBITION AND EVALUATION
- 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 5 - AI IN CANCER PREDICTION AND TREATMENT
Talk 1:
Yue Li, PhD, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, McGill University
Talk 2:
Anne Martel, PhD, Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute; Professor at the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Talk 3:
Student - TBD
- 03:30 PM – 05:00 PM: PANEL DISCUSSION 6 - TRANSLATING DISCOVERIES INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE
Talk 1:
Denis Claude Roy, MD. Chief Sientific Officer of the C3i Centre; Chief Executive Officer at CellCAN, and Full Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal
Talk 2:
Francois Therriault-Proulx, PhD, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at MedScint
Talk 3:
Student - TBD
- 05:00 PM – 05:10 PM: CLOSING REMARKS
