32nd Ernst Klenk Symposium in Molecular Medicine
Cologne, Germany (December, 08 - 10, 2016)
Dear Friend - Dear Students - Dear Colleagues
It gives us great pleasure to invite you and the members of your
institution to the 32nd Ernst Klenk Symposium 2016 on
"Precision oncology: Translating basic discoveries into patient
survival." taking place on Dec. 08 - 10, 2016 in the Lecture Hall of the Med.
Faculty at the Medical Campus in Cologne, and organized by the Center
for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC).
Prof. Charles Swanton (The Francis Crick Institute - London, UK)
has accepted our invitation to be the honorary guest speaker of the Ernst
Klenk Lecture (Dec. 09, 2016 at 6 p.m.) and to participate as the
scientific coordinator.
We are honored to announce that Charles Swanton was substantially involved
in the scientific coordination of the program. It is through his
outstanding engagement, that we are able to present an excellent
cutting-edge program with leading international experts working to share
and discuss latest advances in the fields of precision oncology:
Session I:
Discovering basic principles of actionable genomic aberrations in cancer/tumor evolution/acquired resistance
Mathew Garnett - Cambridge, US - Stefan Pfister - Heidelberg, DE - Neal Rosen - New York, US - William R Sellers - Cambridge, US - Jeffrey A Sosman - Nashville, US - Louis M Staudt - Bethesda, US
Session
II:
Using mouse models as preclinical avatars for the development of precision cancer medicineAnton Berns - Amsterdam, NL -Scott W Lowe - New York, US - Pier P Pandolfi - Boston, US -Julien Sage - Stanford, US - Dieter Saur - Munich, DE - Kwok K Wong - Boston, US
Session III:
Novel approaches for targeted
intervention in solid tumors, lymphomas and leukemias
Enriqueta
Felip -
Barcelona, ES - John G Gribben - London, UK -Richard Marais - Manchester, UK - Matthew L Meyerson -
Boston, US - Tony SK Mok - HongKong, HK - Clemens A Schmitt, Berlin, DE
Session
IV:
Immune checkpoint blockade as a
novel therapeutic approach
Gordon
J Freeman - Boston,
US - William Pao - Basel,
CH -Sergio
A Quezeda -
London, UK - Dirk Schadendorf - Essen, DE -Thomas Tüting - Magdeburg, DE - E John Werry - Philadelphia, US
For further information (e.g.
online registration/program/poster session) please visit: http://www.zmmk.uni-koeln.de/klenk_symposium_2016/
Registration and participation in the Klenk Symposium 2016 is free
of charge.
We are expecting a highly interactive meeting sparked by the panel of
internationally renowned speakers, who will discuss their latest
research developments with an audience of scientists, physicians and
in particular junior researchers and students.
We would be pleased to welcome you and members of your institutionto the Klenk
Symposium 2016.
Yours sincerely
Prof. Dr. Chrisitan Reinhardt - Dept. I of Internal
Medicine - University Hospital Cologne
Prof. Dr. Roman Thomas - Dept. of Translational Genomics - University Hospital Cologne
Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing -
Chairman, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
- University of Cologne
Cologne Klenk Symposium Committee 2016
Prof. Christian Reinhardt (chair) and Prof. Dr. Roman Thomas (chair)
- Prof. Reinhardt Büttner - Prof. Michal-Ruth Schweiger - Prof. Michael
Hallek - Prof. Wilhelm Stoffel - Dr. Debora Grosskopf-Kroher - Prof.
Thomas Benzing
