September 19, 2008 (Friday)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19:50

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OPENING CEREMONIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 20, 2008 (Saturday)

 

 

 

 

 

 

AM SESSION

 

JOINT PLENARY SESSION - Chinese Cancer Congress / Japan Radiological Society / ISCGT

 

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Presentation

Speaker

Affiliation

 

 

 

 

 

8:00

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8:40

 

Plenary Session Address

Zhu Chen

Minister of Health in China

 

 

 

 

 

8:40

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9:20

 

Reducing the burden of cancer in populations through behavior change and public policy

David Hill

Professor & Director, The Cancer Council Victoria, AUSTRALIA, and President, International Union Against Cancer (UICC)

 

 

 

 

 

9:20

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10:00

 

Personalized Therapy of Lung Cancer:  A Prospective

Pan-chi Yang

Dean, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:00

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10:30

 

REFRESHMENT BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:30

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11:10

 

Molecular Targeted Therapy of Hematologic Malignancies

James Griffin

Chair, Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, USA

 

 

 

 

 

11:10

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11:50

 

Gene Therapy of Cancer:  Promise and Progress

Nagy Habib

Professor & Chair, Dept of Surgery, and Pro-Rector, Imperial College London, UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:50

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13:30

 

LUNCH & NETWORKING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PM SESSION I

 

CANCER GENE THERAPY:   HOT TOPICS

Session Chairs:  Kevin Scanlon, Depei Liu

 

CANCER MOLECULAR TARGETS

Session Chairs: Manfred Dietel, Zhigang Dong

 

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Presentation

Speaker

Affiliation

 

Presentation

Speaker

Affiliation

 

13:30

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14:00

 

Avenue towards practical point mutation repair with SSO--Replication&transcription interfering strategies

Depei Liu

Professor & President, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, & President, Peking Union Medical College, CHINA

 

Predictive molecular pathology - a prerequisite for targeted therapy

Manfred Dietel

Director, Institut für Pathologie, Universitätsklinikum Charité der Humboldt-Universität Berlin

 

14:00

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14:30

 

Enhancing therapeutic index of anticancer drugs with cytochrome P450 based gene therapy.

Ling Chen

Professor and Director of Guangzhou Institute, Guangzhou, China

 

Molecular oncology: pursuing targets of cancer prevention and therapy

Zhigang Dong

Professor & Director, Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, USA

 

14:30

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15:00

 

p53: a heavily dictated “dictator” of life and death

Xin Lu

Professor & Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford University, UK

 

Novel molecular targets involved in the regulation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in head and neck cancers

Mahvash Tavassoli

Professor, Molecular Oncology, Cancer Gene Therapy Unit, Oral Pathology, Kings College London, UK

 

15:00

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15:20