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WELCOME TO DAY ONE

SESSION 1

Chair: Amaya Viros

Marco Demaria University of Groeningen, Netherlands

"Cellular senescence and other hallmarks of aging in cancer: friends or foes?"

Q&A 13:25-13:35

Andrea Alimonti Institute of Oncology Research, Switzerland

"Pros & Cons of senescence in cancer therapy"

Q&A 13:55-14:05

Cristina Liboni Centre pour la Recherche en Biomédicine Strasbourg (CRBS), France

Proffered Paper 1: "Neutrophils promote age-induced metastasis"

Q&A 14:15-14:20

REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 2

Chair: Andrea Alimonti

Maria Mittelbrunn Madrid CBM, Spain

"Age-Related Changes in T Cells: Considerations for Cancer Therapy"

Q&A 15:00-15:10

Simona Fusco San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy

Proffered Paper 2: "Therapy-induced senescent cells upregulate antigen processing and presentation machinery and elicit anti-tumor immunity in Acute Myeloid Leukemia"

Q&A 15:20-15:25

Andrés Hidalgo Yale University, USA

"Multifaceted neutrophils in cancer"

Q&A 15:45-15:55

SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATIONS

2 five minute Spotlight talks, from high-scoring abstracts submitted to the meeting.

FLASH TALKS - Session 1

A selection of short 3-minute flash talks from selected abstracts submitted to the meeting.

End of Day 1

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WELCOME TO DAY TWO

SESSION 3

Chair: Marco Demaria

Thomas Helleday Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

"Targeting oxidative DNA repair at the crossroad of cancer and ageing"

Q&A 14:25-14:35

Amaya Viros CRUK, UK

"Adipocyte age dependent metabolic programming dictates melanoma metastatic burden and tropism"

Q&A 14:55-15:05

Frances Turrell University of Manchester, UK

Proffered Paper 3: "Age-associated microenvironmental changes highlight the role of PDGF-C in ER+ breast cancer metastatic relapse"

Q&A 15:15-15:20

FLASH TALKS - Session 2

A selection of short 3-minute flash talks from selected abstracts submitted to the meeting.

REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 4

Chair: Andres Hidalgo

Manuel Colucci Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Switzerland

Proffered Paper 4: "Retinoic acid receptor activation reprograms senescence response and enhances anti-tumor activity of natural killer cells"

Q&A 16:05-16:10

Ashani Weeraratna Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

"Age Against The Machine: The Impact of Aging on Tumor Progression."

Q&A 16:30-16:40

Sheila Stewart Washington University School of Medicine, USA

"Age-related changes drive breast tumorigenesis"

Q&A 17:00-17:10

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Our Scientific Programme Committee members, Andrea Alimonti, Marco Demaria, Amaya Viros and Andres Hidalgo will join together to deliver their thoughts and a summary of the meeting.