Barts Centre for Squamous Cancer annual symposium 2024

24 April 2024, 1.00 PM - 24 April 2024, 5.00 PM

Clark-Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary Innovation Centre, Walden Street, London E1 2EF and online

Hosted by Queen Mary University of London

Programme

  • 13.00 - UK keynote session, introduced by Joanne Martin, Deputy Vice Principal for Health, QMUL. Nitzan Rosenfeld, QMUL. ‘Cancer Liquid Biopsies: Concepts, Methods and Applications’
  • 13.40 - Session 1, Chair Gernot Walko
    • Barbara Fountain, Young Tongues: ‘The Young Tongues, a peer-to-peer support group for young tongue cancer patients’
    • Suzanne Scott, QMUL: ‘Future cancer risk after urgent suspected cancer referral when cancer is not found’
    • Carlos Lopez-Garcia, Manchester: ‘Building a novel human model to deconvolve genotype-phenotype causations in lung squamous cell carcinoma’
    • 2x ECR talks: Kevin Augustsson and John Macken, QMUL
  • 20 mins coffee break
  • 15.20 - International keynote session, introduced by Irene Leigh, QMUL
    • Sabine Werner, ETH Zurich: ‘Stromal-epithelial cross-talk in wound healing and cancer’
  • 16.00 - Session 2, Chair Ana Caetano
    • Adrian Biddle, QMUL: ‘Hybrid cancer stem cells driving oral cancer metastasis’
    • Gareth Thomas, Southampton: ‘Single cell analysis of fibroblasts in head & neck cancer: opportunities for therapeutic targeting’
    • Clare Schilling, UCLH: ‘Individualised surgical treatments for head and neck cancer’
  • Networking reception until 19.00

Register for your free place

Contact information

Enquiries to Adrian Biddle 

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