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.
A Matter of Life or Death: Mechanisms and Relevance of Cell Death for Cancer Biology and Treatment 2016 covers topics such as:
- 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
A Matter of Life or Death: Mechanisms and Relevance of Cell Death for Cancer Biology and Treatment 2016 brings together scientists from different fields of cancer research, such as
- Molecular pathology
- Cancer biology
- Cancer immunology
- Molecular oncology
- Radiation biology and oncology
- Pharmacology
- Medical oncology
