On behalf of the chairs of the symposium Dr Chih-Tsung Yang and Dr Michelle Maritz and myself, I thank all the speakers of the inaugural ‘International Symposium: Bioengineered Cancer Models’. What a great turn out for what ended being a very exciting event with fascinating presentations illustrating the potential of bioengineered models in immunotherapy and radiotherapy.
‘International Symposium: Bioengineered Cancer Models’
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Guest arrival and coffee |
| 10:00 – 10:15
Chair: Professor Peter Hoffmann |
Opening session
Acknowledgement of Country and Introduction of SA Chief Scientist: Professor Peter Hoffmann (University of South Australia) Opening note: Professor Caroline McMillen (SA Chief Scientist) Introduction of French – South Australia collaboration: Ms Patricia Thomasi (A/Director, Office of the French Strategy, Department of the Premier and Cabinet) |
| 10:15 – 12:00
Chair: Professor Benjamin Thierry |
Session 1
10:15: Adapting a 3D Microfluidic Culture System to Study Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Personalized Immunotherapy Developing a Functional Precision Medicine Platform for Immuno-Oncology Dr Amir Aref (Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute, Harvard University) 10:50: Professor Wayne Tilley (University of Adelaide) 11:25: A new versatile microfluidic system to simulate human physiology in a chip Dr Pierre Gaudriault (Cherry Biotech) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 14:45
Chair: Dr Chih-Tsung Yang |
Session 2
13:00: 3D vascularised microfluidic systems to study the role of tumour stromal cells in immunotherapy of triple negative breast cancer A/Professor Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani (University of Technology Sydney) 13:35: 3D bioprinting of high-throughput (HTP) tumour spheroids for precision medicine Dr Lakmali Atapattu (University of New South Wales) 14:10: Development of a novel solid tumour CAR-T therapy Dr Justin Coombs (Carina Biotech) |
| 15:05 – 16:30
Chair: A/Professor Ivan Kempson
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Session 3
15:05: Proton Therapy – Coming Soon to Australia Associate Professor Hien Le (Radiation Oncology, Royal Adelaide Hospital) 15:15: Radiation biology and the quest for personalized cancer therapies: in vitro and in silico approaches Professor Eva Bezak (University of South Australia) 15:50: Towards bioengineered head and neck cancer models Dr Michelle Maritz (University of South Australia) 16:15: Quantitative Imaging and Machine Learning in Translational Research Dr Jonathan Cechetto (PerkinElmer) |
| 16:30 -16:50
Chair: Professor Benjamin Thierry |
Selected flash presentation session
16:30: Decoding the endosomal trafficking system through live-cell microscopy Dr. Senthil Arumugam (University of New South Wales) 16:35: Pre-clinical assessment of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)T cells using patient derived xenograft (PDX) mouse models Dr. Alla Dolnikov (Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital) 16:40: A humanised bone marrow xenotransplantation model of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia to predict patient outcome and direct therapy Dr Thao M. Nguyen (University of South Australia) 16:45: Drop-on-demand 3D bioprinting of 3D cell models Dr Robert Utama (Inventia Life Science) |