Symposium on: Strategies in Cancer Prevention and Treatment

9:00-9:20

Registration and Refreshments

9:20-9:30

Opening Remarks:

Prof. Daniel Cohen, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University & Stanley Steyer Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Research

9:30-10:15

Genomic cancer medicine – from prevention to treatment and survival

Prof. Gad Rennert, Clalit National Cancer Control Center & B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

10:15-10:45

Primary and secondary prevention of cancer of infectious etiology

Prof. Daniel Cohen, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University & Stanley Steyer Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Research

10:45-11:15

Pre-exposure to oral bisphosphonates and incidence of primary breast cancer and of bone metastases in osteoporotic women diagnosed with early breast cancer

Dr. Vanessa Rouach, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center & Stanley Steyer Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Research, Tel Aviv University

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:15

Overview on cancer vaccines – focus peptide vaccines

Prof. Ursula Wiedermann, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine,  Medical University Vienna

12:15-12:45

Identification of mimotopes and their use as cancer vaccine antigens

Dr. Joshua Tobias, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine,  Medical University Vienna

12:45-13:15

Adoptive T cell therapy

Dr. Ronnie Shapira, Ella Institute for the Treatment and Research of Melanoma and Skin Cancer, Sheba Medical Center & Tel Aviv University

13:15-14:00

Lunch