Associação Portuguesa de Investigação em Cancro
ASPIC CONFERENCE - Research on Pediatric Cancer: Where are we? Where are we going?
ASPIC CONFERENCE - Research on Pediatric Cancer: Where are we? Where are we going?
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
10:30 – Official 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)
14:20 – Session 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
17:15 – Closing 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).