Cancer Biology: Virtual Systems & Beyond

Bergamo, Italy : 16 - 18 March 2027

Scientific Programme

Tuesday 16th March 2027

11:30

REGISTRATION & WELCOME LUNCH

Light refreshments will be served from 12:00

13:00

CONFERENCE WELCOME

13:10

SESSION 1: Computational Approaches to Immunotherapy

Chair: Charlotte Bunne

13:10

Keynote Lecture

Linghua Wang UT MD Anderson, USA

'Decoding the Cellular Language of Cancer with AI and Spatial Omics for Precision and Predictive Oncology'

Q&A: 13:40-13:55

13:55

Raza Ali CRUK Cambridge Institute, UK

'Dynamics of breast cancer tissues treated with immunotherapy'

Q&A: 14:15-14:25

14:25

Proffered Paper 1

Q&A: 14:35-14:40

14:40

EXHIBITOR INTRODUCTIONS

Led by members of the Scientific Programme Committee

14:50

COFFEE BREAK & Solo Travellers' Meet-Up

15:20

Mingyao Li Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA

'Digital tissue twins: shaping the future of cancer data science'

Q&A: 15:40-15:50

15:50

Mor Nitzan The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

'Extracting spatial-temporal models of tumorigenesis from large scale biological data'

Q&A: 16:10-16:20

16:20

POSTER SPOTLIGHTS

3 top abstracts presented as 3-minute flash talks

16:30

INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM

17:00

NETWORKING SESSION

17:30

WELCOME RECEPTION

18:15

POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION 1

Wednesday 17th March 2027

08:15

EARLY POSTER VIEWING

08:45

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

09:00

Session 2: From Target to Molecule: Virtual Screening and Drug Discovery

Chair: Eytan Ruppin

09:00

Charlotte Bunne EPFL, Switzerland

Q&A: 09:20-09:30

09:30

Proffered Paper 2

Q&A: 09:40-09:45

09:45

Mo Lotfollahi Sanger, UK

'Generative AI to describe and engineer tissue'

Q&A: 10:05-10:15

10:15

Sophia J Wagner Heidelberg University, Germany

'Toward clinical discovery and forecasting with virtual patient representations'

Q&A: 10:35-10:45

10:45

COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION

11:15

Hana Aliee CRUK Cambridge Institute, UK

'Causal machine learning in biomedicine'

Q&A: 11:35-11:45

11:45

Proffered Paper 3

Q&A: 11:55-12:00

12:00

POSTER SPOTLIGHTS

3 top abstracts presented as 3-minute flash talks

12:10

INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM

12:40

LUNCH

13:30

POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION 2

15:00

Session 3: Emerging Technologies and Virtual Systems

Chair: Marianna Rapsomaniki

15:00

Eytan Ruppin Cedars Sinai, USA

'Towards fast and accessible precision oncology'

Q&A: 15:20-15:30

15:30

Proffered Paper 4

Q&A: 15:40-15:45

15:45

Proffered Paper 5

Q&A: 15:55-16:00

16:00

Speaker 10 tbc

Q&A: 16:20-16:30

16:30

COFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION

Tea, coffee and biscuits

17:00

Trey Ideker University of Oxford Big Data Institute, UK

Q&A: 17:20-17:30

17:30

Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar University of Cambridge, UK

Q&A: 17:50-18:00

18:00

NETWORKING SESSION

19:30

Conference Dinner

Optional ticketed event

Thursday 18th March 2027

08:15

EARLY POSTER VIEWING

08:45

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

09:00

Session 4: Spatial Omics and Histopathology

Chair: Raza Ali

09:00

Marianna Rapsomaniki Swiss Biomedical Data Science Center, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

'Building predictive AI models for precision oncology across scales, modalities and perturbations'

Q&A: 09:20-09:30

09:30

Ewa Szczurek Helmholtz Munich, Germany

Q&A: 09:50-10:00

10:00

Proffered Paper 6

Q&A: 10:10-10:15

10:15

COFFEE BREAK & TRADE

Tea, coffee and biscuits

10:45

Lichun Ma NCI, NIH, USA

'Spatial ecosystem of cellular communities in liver cancer'

Q&A: 11:05-11:15

11:15

Aristotelis Tsirigos NYU School of Medicine, USA

'Multi-Modal AI Models of Gene Regulation'

Q&A: 11:35-11:45

11:45

SUMMARY, AWARDS & CLOSE

12:00

DEPART

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