8h15 - 8h30: Welcome Coffee
8h30 - 8h45: Introduction by UNIGE and HUG
9h - 9h20: Introduction to breast cancer translational research
Pre Pelagia Tsoutsou, Head, Division of radio-oncology HUG, Geneva
9h20 - 10h20: Breast cancer research - Switzerland
- Animal models with a special focus on lobular breast cancer
Dr Georgios Sflomos, Cancer Researcher, ISREC, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Circulating-tumor cells
Pr Nicola Aceto, Professor of Molecular Oncology, Institute of Molecular Health, Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland - Interventional techniques for small breast cancers - freeze it, fry it or suck it
Pr Peter Dubsky, Director, Breast cancer Center, Groupe Hirslanden, Lucerne, Switzerland
10h20 - 10h40: Coffee break + poster session
10h40 - 12h00: Breast cancer research - International
- Genomic signatures and opportunities to personalize locoregional treatment of breast cancer
Prof. Eleftherios Mamounas, Medical Director Breast Cancer Program, AdventHealth Cancer Institute, Florida, USA, Professor of Surgery, University of Central Florida - ctDNA trials in breast cancer:
Michail Ignatiadis, MD, PhD
Director, Breast Medical Oncology Clinic & Program, Medical Oncology Department, Institut Bordet
Professeur Hospitalier, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Chair, Breast Cancer Group, EORTC - Research progress in lymphedema and concrete benefits to patients’ lives
Pr Alphonse Taghian, Director of Breast Radiation Oncology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA - Innovations in radiation therapy : Towards research adapted to the new standard schedules and means ?
Pr Yazid Belkacemi, Head of the Radiation Oncology Department and Breast Cancer Center, APHP - University Hospital of Henri Mondor, AROME Honorary President, Paris, France
12h - 13h: Lunch + poster session
13h00 - 13h20: MC. Vozenin - Introduction FLASH Radiotherapy
13h20 - 14h20: FLASH Network- Switzerland
- Medical physics aspects of FLASH clinical translation-update on the collaborative program at USZ/PSI/HUG-UNIGE:
Dr Serena Psoroulas, Senior Scientist/Medical Physicist, Zurich University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland - FLASH Clinical trial in cat patients with oral cancer- update on the collaborative program at UZH/PSI/HUG-UNIGE
Pr Carla Rohrer-Bley, Director of Clinic for Radiation Oncology & Medical Oncology, University Animal Hospital, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Beyond VHEE beam: new beams for the future- update on the collaborative program at CERN/HUG-UNIGE
Dr Roberto Corsini, Head of CLEAR facility CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
14h20 - 14h40: Coffee break + poster session
14h40 - 16h00: FLASH Network- International
- Clinical translation of proton FLASH at UPenn
Pr Costas Koumenis, Richard Chamberlain Professor of Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA - New biological mechanisms for the FLASH effect- update on the collaborative PO1 program: UCI/Stanford/Iowa/HUG-UNIGE
Pr Charles Limoli, Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA - New physico-chemical mechanisms for the FLASH effect
Pr Joao Seco, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University and DKFZ German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany - FLASH for breast cancer
Pr Pierre Montay-Gruel, Iridium Netwerk, Visiting Professor University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
16h00 - 16h30: Coffee break + poster session
16h30 - 17h00: Keynote lecture - Women in science
Pre Monica Gotta, Head of the Cell Division and Development Group, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland
17h00 - 17h30: Round table - Next steps for synergies in clinical translation for radiation oncology
17h30 - 18h30: Visit of the LiRR - At the Department of Radiation Oncology, Av. de la Roseraie 53
18h30: Closing aperitif - At the Department of Radiation Oncology, Av. de la Roseraie 53