A Matter of Life or Death: Mechanisms and Relevance of Cell Death for Cancer Biology and Treatment 2016

A Matter of Life or Death: Mechanisms and Relevance of Cell Death for Cancer Biology and Treatment 2016 is a conference dedicated to developments that are crucial to the understanding of the multifaceted role of cell death in tumour initiation, progression and therapy response.

Key Topics

• Cancer cell autonomous TRAIL-receptor signaling and cancer progression
• The various modes of programmed cell death and their regulation, e.g. apoptosis, autophagy and necroptosis
• The interplay of p53-mediated apoptosis and tumour suppression
• Ouroborous, autophagy and growth control
• Autophaghy and cancer metabolism
• The protein interaction map of apoptosis and autophagy
• In vivo RNAi screening for the identification of new resistance mechanisms
• Importance and therapeutic exploitation of the cellular stress response, the ubiquitin proteasome system and cell death signalling for cancer therapy
• New strategies to kill cancer stem cells
• Precision cancer therapy targeting mitochondria
• Therapeutic reprograming of radiation-induced immune deviation in normal tissue responses
• Therapeutic targets in DNA repair

Who should Attend

Scientists from different fields of cancer research, such as

• Molecular pathology
• Cancer biology
• Cancer immunology
• Molecular oncology
• Radiation biology and oncology
• Pharmacology
• Medical oncology