ASPIC CONFERENCE - Research on Pediatric Cancer: Where are we? Where are we going?

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ASPIC CONFERENCE - Research on Pediatric Cancer: Where are we? Where are we going?

Friday, 08.11.2019

The session is free and open to the public but registration is required: https://forms.gle/71NReczzbEThB46L9

 

 

ASPIC CONFERENCE

Research on Paediatric Cancer: Where are we? Where are we going?

November 8, 2019 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

 

10:30Official opening

Director for Oncological Diseases' Program, Dr. José Dinis

Director of the «Gulbenkian Knowledge» program, Prof. Jorge Soares

President of Acreditar, Eng.º João de Bragança

Administrator of Fundação Rui Osório de Castro (FROC), Dr. Filipe Osório de Castro

President of Sociedade de Hematologia e Oncologia Pediátrica (SHOP), Dr. Nuno Reis Farinha

 

10:45 – Session 1 – PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY RESEARCH - PATIENT AND PARENTS' PERSPECTIVE

Moderator: Margarida Cruz (Acreditar)

10:50 - Parents and patients survey results – Telma Sousa (Acreditar)

11:10 – How to put paediatric cancer on the media and political agenda – Anne Goeres (Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner)

11:40 – Discussion about the role of the patient and patient's associations – with the participation of a mother (Ana Brazião) and a survivor (Tiago Pinto da Costa)

12:00 – Session 2 - SIOP EUROPE VISION AND GOALS FOR EQUAL ACCESS TO CARE AND RESEARCH - Prof. Pamela Kearns (SIOPE’s president)

Moderator: Nuno Reis Farinha - SHOP's President

12:30 - Discussion

12:45 - Lunch

13:45 – Session 3 - PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY RESEARCH IN PORTUGAL – THE PRESENT

Moderators: Manuel Brito (Coimbra Paediatric Hospital, CHUC) / Vítor Costa (IPO-Porto)

14:00 – Results of the survey to the clinicians and researchers – Bruno Cardoso (IMM-JLA)

14:20Session 4 - OVERVIEW OF PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY RESEARCH IN PORTUGAL

- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia: can basic science contribute to novel therapeutic solutions? - João Barata (IMM-JLA)

- Paediatric Leukemias: Portugal participation in international clinical trials - Ximo Duarte (IPO-Lisboa)

- Neuroblastoma(s) – Challenging hope - Ana Lacerda (IPO-Lisboa)

- Clinical and translational research in paediatric brain tumours - Jorge Lima (i3S/Ipatimup), Mª João Gil da Costa (CHUSJoão)

15:30 - Discussion

16:00 - Café

16:30 – Session 5 – CONDUCTING CLINICAL TRIALS IN PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY  – Dr. Mats Heyman (Karolinska Institutet)

Moderator: Dr. Ximo Duarte (IPO-Lisboa)

17:00 - Discussion

17:15Closing remarks

Minister of Health (to be confirmed)

President of ASPIC, Prof. Luís Costa

 

Organizing Committee: Bruno Cardoso (IMM-JLA), Cláudia Faria (CHULN, IMM-JLA, FMUL), Cristina Potier (FROC), Joana Paredes (i3S/Ipatimup, FMUP), Ximo Duarte (IPO-Lisboa), Jorge Lima (i3S/Ipatimup, FMUP), Luís Costa (CHULN, IMM-JLA, FMUL), Luísa Melo (ASPIC), Manuel Brito (CHUC), Margarida Cruz (Acreditar), Maria João Gil da Costa (CHUSJoão), Marta Viana-Pereira (ICVS, UMinho), Nuno Reis Farinha (CHUSJoão, SHOP), Telma Sousa (Acreditar), Vítor Costa (IPO-Porto).