Wednesday August 31st
Rendezvous Area
3:00 PM – 9:00 PM Registration
Thursday September 1st
Grant Park Room
8:30 AM – 11:15 AM ISOBM Board Meeting
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Student Orientation – Dr. Radosevich
Great HALL
1:00 PM Opening Ceremony
2:00 PM (Title To Be Announced) Dr. Winn (USA)
3:00 PM (Title To Be Announced) Dr. Ralph R. Weichselbaum (USA)
4:00 PM (Title to be Announced) Dr. Ferid Murad (Nobel Laureate) (USA)
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Opening Reception – Signature Room (94th Floor of the Hancock Building)
Friday September 2nd
Florentine Room
8:00 AM– 10:00 AM Biomarkers and Early Cancer – Dr. Cree (United Kingdom)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Biomarkers In Immunotherapy of Cancer – Dr. Dudek (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Abbott Award Talk – Dr. Jorge Marrero (USA)
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Cancer Stem Cells –Drs. Radosevich (USA) & Chowdhury (Dubai)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Circulating Cancer Cells – Dr. Holdenrieder (Germany) & Dr. Borgia (USA)
University of Illinois
6:30 – 10:00 PM Poster Sessions & Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza
Gold Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Cancer Metabolism – Dr. de Vitto (Brazil) & Dr. De Nicola (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Tumor Hypoxia Predication of Response & Cancer Prognosis – Dr. Halpern (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Head & Neck Cancers: Biology and Treatments – Dr. Vesper (USA) & Dr. Khalili (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM Targeted Cancer Therapies – Dr. Stieber (Germany) & Dr. Abadin (USA)
University of Illinois
6:30 – 10:00 PM Poster Sessions & Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza
Saturday September 3rd
Florentine Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Lung Cancer Biology & Biomarkers – Dr. Feldman (USA) & Dr. Molina (Spain)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Target Immunotherapies – Dr. Chechlinska (Poland) & Dr. Maki (USA)
12:30 PM -1:00 PM Student Orientation Follow-Up (Grant Park Room) – Dr. Radosevich (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Breast Cancer Round Table (Chaired by Drs. Molina, Dudek, and Barak)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Radiomics and Radiogenomics in Precision Medicine – Dr. Aydogan (USA) & Stigbrand (Sweden)
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Lake Michigan Dinner & Dancing Boat Cruise
Gold Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM New Developments in Anticancer Agents – Dr. Duffy (Ireland) & Dr. Feldman (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Liquid Biopsies and Serum Assays – Dr. Mandal (India) & Dr. Borgia (USA)
12:30 PM -1:00 PM Student Orientation Follow-Up (Grant Park Room) – Dr. Radosevich (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Topics in Gynecological Cancers – Dr. Nag (India) & Dr. K. Batool (Dubai)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM Hot Topics in Student Research – Dr. Malaiyandi (USA) & Dr. Khalili (USA)
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Lake Michigan Dinner & Dancing Boat Cruise
Sunday September 4th
Florentine Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Clinical Applications of Cancer Biomarkers – Drs. Stieber (Germany) & Molina (Spain)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Functional & Molecular Imaging as a Biomarker – Dr. Aydogan (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Breast Cancer Biomarkers and Oncogenes – Drs. Barak (Israel) & H. Batool (Dubai)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Hors d’oeuvres – Rendezvous Area
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM ISOBM General Assembly – Dr. Molina (Spain)
Gold Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Tumor Immunology – Dr. Nicolini (Italy) & Dr. Malaiyandi (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Current Topics In Prostate Cancer – Dr. Tarjan (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Special presentation by Dr. Carlo M. Croce
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Advances in Student Research – Dr. Mandal (India) & Dr. Dineley (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM European Group For Tumor Marker s – Dr. Barak (Israel)
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Hors d’oeuvres – Rendezvous Area
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM ISOBM General Assembly – Dr. Molina (Spain)
Monday September 5th
Florentine Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Molecular Diagnostics In Cancer – Dr. Bassiony (Egypt) & Dr. de Vitto (Brazil)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Lymphoma & Leukemia – Dr. Nap (Netherlands) & Dr. Anelova (USA)
Lunch – Great Hall
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Dr. John Minna
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Biomarkers and Tumor Biology of GI Cancers – Drs. H. Batool (Dubai) & Stigbran (Sweden)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Hot Topics In Student Research – Dr. Kaur (India) & Dr. Aydogan (USA)
6:30 PM – 11:30 PM Gala Dinner
Gold Room
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Mechanisms Of Anti-Cancer Agents – Dr. Duffy (Ireland) & Dr. Maki (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Cancer Vaccines & Immunotherapies – Drs. Chowdhury (Dubai) & Feldman (USA)
Lunch (Great Hall)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Tumor Microenvironment – Dr. Bassiony (Egypt) & Dr. Abadin (USA)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Topics In Urological Cancers – Dr. Sanchez-Carbayo (Spain)
6:30 PM – 11:30 PM Gala Dinner
Tuesday September 6th
Florentine Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Advances In Student Research – Dr. Kaur (India) & Dr. Mandal (India)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Circulating Tumor Nucleosomes, DNA & Genetics – Dr. Holdenrieder (Germany) Yoruker (Turkey)
Closing Ceremony – Great Hall
Hors d’oeuvres
Gold Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Signal Transduction & Cancer Physiology – Dr. Tarjan (USA) & Dr. Nag (India)
Coffee Break – Rendezvous Area
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Melanoma Biomarkers & Biology – Dr. K. Batool (Dubai) & Dr. Barak (Israel)
1:00 PM Closing Ceremony – Great Hall
1:30 PM Hors d’oeuvres
3:00 PM- 5:00PM Board Meeting