HONORARY PATRONAGE 
The Marshal
of the Małopolska Region 

 




supported by

The Foundation
of Count Jakub Potocki


 
Polish Ministry of Science
and Higher Education

  IN COLLABORATION WITH









Scientific Information and Educational Points

TOPICS

The Sessions will cover the following topics:
 
1. Classical Tumour Markers Present and Future I
2. From Tumour Biology to Biomarker-Based Decisions 
3. European Group for Tumour Markers Session
4. Big Data for Biomarker Development
5. Circulating Cancer Cells
6. Molecular Therapeutics and Predictive Biomarkers
7. Immunotherapy and Immunological Markers for the Management of Cancer Patients
8. Biobanking/Horizon 2020

9. Interdisciplinary Challenges
10. Hormones in the Aetiopathogenesis of Cancer
11. Liquid Biopsy
12. Molecularly-Driven Therapies
13. Cancer Stem Cells
14. Cancer Risk and Cancer Screening
15. Epigenetic Profiling, Tumour-Derived Nucleic Acids 
16. Towards Molecular Oncology - IncoNet EaP Session
17. Anticancer Drugs - New Developments, New Strategies
18. Molecular Tracing of Metastatic/Residual Diseases
19. Classical Tumour Markers Present and Future II
20. Targeting Tumour Microenvironment

ROUND TABLE discussions will cover the following topics:

1. Early Cancer Diagnosis
2. Classical and Molecular Biomarkers in the Management of Cancer Patients - Strategies,             Controversies, Opportunities.

KEYNOTES

Aaron Ciechanover


Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2004 Nobel Prize winner, Biochemistry
For the "discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
 
 The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System:
From  Basic Mechanisms Thru Human Diseases and on to Drug Development
Gold Phil 
(
McGill University, Montreal,Canada) 
In the beginning....
Fritche Herbert
(MD Anderson Cancer Center,Houston,USA)
New Biomarkers and Panels for the Early Detection of Cancer
Stenman Ulf Hakan 
(University of Helsinki, Finland)
Optimized Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer. Do you agree?

Round Table Moderators
Ian Cree
(University Hospitals
Coventry and Warwickshire, Walsgrave, UK)
Early Diagnosis
Leendert Looijenga
(Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Holland)
Classical and Molecular Biomarkers in the Management of Cancer Patients - Strategies, Controversies, Opportunities. 

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

 


Certificate of attendence will be provided to all participants 
at the end of the Congress.

CME

The 42nd ISOBM annual Congress "Oncology in the Biomarker Era: Biology ‑ Diagnostics ‑ Therapy" is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide the following CME activity for medical specialists. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), www.uems.net .
 
The 42nd ISOBM annual Congress
"Oncology in the Biomarker Era: Biology – Diagnostics – Therapy”

is designated for up to
 
18 hours of European external CME credits.
 
 
Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
 
Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme.
 
Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognized by the UEMS-EACCME for ECMEC credits are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

 Click to see a Letter of Accreditation

In order for the ISOBM 2015 Congress participants to evaluate properly statements presented during presentations (lectures, poster presentations, round table discussions etc.), it is important that the participants be informed of any aspect of a speaker's personal or professional circumstances that might affect significantly the speaker's attitude or judgment regarding the particular matter under consideration.

The following procedure will be undertaken:
  • all persons in a position to control the educational content of the ISOBM 2015 congress will have made disclosure of their relevant financial or other relationships with industry
  • potential or actual conflicts of interest of the members of the scientific and organising committees will be made readily available in print, with the program
  • all presenting authors will be requested to declare potential or actual conflicts of interest on one of their slides (oral presentation), in print on posters or verbally (in the beginning of RT discussions)
Declaration of the President of the ISOBM 2015 Congress
  • ISOBM 2015 does not pay any honorary or consultation fee to any presenting author/speaker of the conference
  • Reimbursement for the conference fee and/or travel and/or accommodation provided to some of the speakers is covered from the conference budget.

KIDL CREDITS

 
Polish laboratory diagnosticians participating in the ISOBM 2015 Congress will earn 31 credits from the National Chamber of Laboratory Medicine toward maintaining their professional certification.

Click here to view official letter from
National Chamber of Laboratory Medicine

Speakers

  First name Name
(town, country) 
  Title of the talk
Vivian Barak
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Assessing Response to New Treatments and Prognosis in Melanoma Patients, Using the Biomarker S-100β
Vivian Barak
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Serum HER-2 as a Sensitive Tumor Marker in Breast Cancer Patients
Jan Barciszewski
(Poznan, Poland)
New Nucleic Acid-based Markers of Human Diseases
Grzegorz Basak
(Warsaw, Poland)
Gut Microbiome in Hematooncology:
Significance and Opportunities of Modulation
MG (Hans) Bonfrer
(Heemstede, Holland)
Introduction of an Immunological Faecal Blood Test in the Dutch National Screening Program for Colon Cancer
Krzysztof Brzózka
(Cracow, Poland)
Identification of a Dual PIM/FLT3 Kinase Inhibitor for the Treatment
of Haematological Malignancies
Caroline Chapman
(Nottingham, UK)
Autoantibodies as Immune Biomarkers in Cancer.
Opportunities for Early Cancer Detection?
Ian Cree
(Coventry,United Kingdom)
The Challenge of Early Cancer Detection
Joe Duffy
(Dublin, Ireland)
Biomarkers in Breast Cancer: What is New? 
Joe Duffy
(Dublin, Ireland)
Molecularly Targeted Therapy: The Future in Cancer Treatment? 
Józef Dulak
(Cracow, Poland)
Janus face of molecular pathways in cancer:
a case of Nrf2 and heme oxygenase-1
Radka Fuchsova
(Plzen, Czech Republic)
Vitamin D and Cancer Diseases
Sebastian Giebel
(Gliwice, Poland)
Monitoring of Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Prognositc Relevance and Impact on Treatment Decisions
Michael Giersig
(Berlin, Germany)
The Use of Functional Nanocomponents for the Diagnosis
and Therapy of Cancer 
Piotr Guzenda
(Warsaw, Poland)
The Ideally Suited RNA-seq Method: Iimpact on the Data 
Knut Hamann
(Waltham, USA)
New Molecular Techniques for Liquid Biopsy Analysis
Siegfried Hauch
(Langenhagen,Germany)
Circulating Tumor Cells: the Seeds of Metastazation
Stefan Holdenrieder
(Bonn, Germany)
Liquid Profiling of KRAS-status on Circulating Plasma-DNA in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer 
Stefan Holdenrieder
(Bonn, Germany)
Progastrin-releasing peptide as a biomarker for clinical response in small-cell lung carcinoma. Results from the Roche ProGRP study. 
Ahmad Jalili
(Vienna, Austria)
Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers and Targeted Therapies; Dreams Come True
Krystian Jażdżewski
(Warsaw, Poland)
Genetic Risk Markers of the Overall Survival of Thyroid Cancer Patients
Alicja Józkowicz
(Cracow, Poland)
Stressful Way to Maturation - Role of Heme Oxygenase-1 in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Monika Jurkowska
(Warsaw, Poland)
Primary and Secondary Findings in the Genomic Analysis as a Part of a Prophylactic and Therapy Process in Cancer
Sherif Karam 
(Al-Ain, UAE)
Role of Stem Cells in Gastric Cancer
Claudine Kieda
(Orleans, France)
New Angiogenesis-Based Therapeutic Strategies to Compensate Tumor Hypoxia and Stably Normalize Vessels Transform Tumor Microenvironment and Potentiate Cancer Treatment 
Judita Kinkorova
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Biobank in Pilsen as a New Member of National Node BBMRI_CZ
Rainer Klpador 
(Hamburg, Germany)
Biomarkers as Relevant Parameters for Prolongation of Overall Survival-Results on 438 Pancreatic Cancer (PaCa) Patients
Magdalena Kowalewska
 (Warsaw, Poland)
Estimation of Recurrence Risk in Patients with Squamous Cell Vulvar Carcinoma by the Assessment of Marker Gene Expression
Łukasz Kozera
(Wroclaw, Poland)
Biobanking and Personalized Medicine
Maciej Krzakowski
(Warsaw, Poland)
Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer - Current Status and Perspectives of Targeted Therapy
Marzena Lewandowska
(Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Prostate Cancer Translational Research: from Cell Line to Plasma miRNA Biomarkers 
Leendert Looijenga
(Rotterdam, Holland)
Human Germ Cell Tumors, from Biology to Clinic
Andrzej Mackiewicz
(Poznan, Poland)
Immunotherapy and Immuno-Markers in Melanoma
Sergiusz Markowicz
(Warsaw, Poland)
Perspectives of the Use of Differentiation-Inducing Factors to Counteract Regrowth of Colon Cancer after Conventional Chemotherapy
Rafael Molina
(Barcelona, Spain)
Are we Using Tumor Markers Correctly?
Rafael Molina
(Barcelona, Spain)
SCC Antigen - First Results from the Elecsys SCC Multicenter Evaluation
Rafael Molina
(Barcelona, Spain)
Tumor Markers HE4 and CA 125 in the Follow-up of Patients with Ovarian Cancer 
Ricardo Moro
(Richmond, Canada)
Cancer Imaging and Therapy Using the Receptor for AFP (RECAF) as a Target
Tomas Muley
(Heidelberg, Germany)
The Combination of Serum Biomarkers CYFRA21-1 and CEA Improves Prognostication in Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) 
Andrea Nicolini
(Pisa, Italy)
Clinical and Laboratory Patterns During Immune Stimulation in Hormone Responsive Metastatic Breast Cancer 
Michael Ostrowski
(Columbus, USA)
Genetic Analysis of Stromal Tumor Suppressor Pathways in Breast Cancer 
Luca Quagliata
(Basel, Switzerland)
NGS for Routine Diagnostics: What is the Real Benefit
James Radosevich
(Chicago, USA)
Rethinking the Tumor Stem Cell Theory 
Piotr Rieske
(Łódź, Poland)
Rational Combinations of Targeted Anticancer Therapies
Matt van de Rijn
(Stanford, USA)
Novel Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Sarcoma
Piotr Rutkowski
(Warsaw, Poland)
Developments in Targeted Therapy of Malnoma
Marta Sanchez-Carbayo (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) Prognostic Urinary Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
Stewart Sell
(Albany, USA)
Nanoparticle Directed Therapy of Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Jan Kondrad Siwicki
(Warsaw, Poland)
Plasticity of cancer stem cell-like phenotype.
Phenformin-resistant variants of ovarian cancer cell line IGROV1 
Denis A. Smirnov
(Spring House, USA)
Molecular Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells:
Opportunities and Challenges
Šárka Svobodova
(Plzen, Czech Republic)
Metabolic Syndrome as a Risk Factor for Cancer Development
Ewa Szkiłądź
(Warsaw, Poland)
Horizon 2020 Health
Jolanta Tarasiuk
(Szczecin, Poland)
Targeting NF-kB to Reduce the Metastatic Potential of Multidrug Resistant Tumor Cells 
Ondrej Topolčan
(Plzen, Czech Republic)
Tumor Markers for Early Diagnostics and Therapy Monitoring in Cancer.
Ondrej Topolčan
(Plzen, Czech Republic)
Hormones Influencing Cancer Development
Maciej Wiznerowicz
(Poznan, Poland)
Applying TCGA Data for Cancer Diagnostics and Pathway Analysis 
Iwona Włodarska
(Loeven, Belgium)
Non-Invasive Detection of Genomic Imbalances in Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg Cells in Early and Advanced Stage Hodgkin’s Lymphoma by Sequencing of Circulating Cell-Free DNA