Oncobell 4th International Symposium Program
"Novel avenues in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment"
Barcelona, March 11th - 12th, 2027. Auditorium, Bellvitge University Hospital.
08.30 – 09.00 REGISTRATION
09.00 – 09.10 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Gabriel Capellá, Director of Institut d’Investigació Biomedica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
09.10h – 10.00h OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE
Giuseppe Curigliano, ESMO President, Milano.
10.00 – 10.30 COFFE BREAK
10.00 – 12.30 SESSION I: TUMOR PREVENTION, INITIATION AND PROGRESSION
Chair:
Conxi Lázaro & Victor Moreno, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
10.30 – 11.00 TITLE
Omar S. M. El Nahhas, Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
11.00 – 11.30 TITLE
Arkaitz Carracedo, CIC BioGUNE, Pais Vasco, Spain.
11.30 – 12.30 TITLE
Isabel Fabregat, Institut d’Investigació Biomedica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
12.00 – 12.30 SELECTED ABSTRACTS – SHORT TALKS
12.30 – 14.00 POSTER SESSION & LUNCH BREAK
14.00 – 16.00 SESSION II: TUMOR HETEROGENEITY AND PLASTICITY
Chair:
Elisa Espinet & Jordi Bruna, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
14.00 – 14.30 TITLE
Maria Casanova, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid.
14.30 – 15.00 TITLE
Leila Akkari, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
15.00 – 15.30 TITLE
Antonio Gentilella, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
15.30 – 16.00 SELECTED ABSTRACTS – SHORT TALKS
16.00 – 16.30 COFFE BREAK
16.30 – 17.30 ROUNDTABLE: BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE OF CANCER PREVENTION
Chair:
Miguel Angel Genestar Pujana, Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), Hospital Duran i Reynals, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Panelists:
Nuria Lopez Bigas, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IRB Barcelona.
TBD – Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC).
TBD – Recipient of the 2026 AECC, Biology and Medicine of Cancer Award.
20.00 SPEAKER’S DINNER
FRIDAY MARCH 12TH
09.00 – 11.00 SESSION III: ADCs, GTPase INHIBITORS AND OTHER INNOVATIVE THERAPIES AND COMBINATIONS IN SOLID TUMORS
Chair:
Meritxell Rovira & Agostina Stradella, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) & Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), Hospital Duran i Reynals, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
09.00 – 10.00 Targeting KRAS
Colin Lindsay, Department of Medical Oncology, University of Manchester, UK.
09.30 – 10.00 TITLE
Ramon Salazar, Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), Hospital Duran i Reynals, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
10.00 – 10.30 ADCs in breast cancer
Barbara Pistilli, Medical Oncology Department, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
10.30 – 11.00 ADCs in lung cancer
Noemí Reguart, Medical Oncology, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona.
11.00 – 11.30 COFFE BREAK
11.30 – 12.30 ROUNDTABLE: Challenges in New Drug Developmental therapeutics
Chair:
Sonia Pernas & Ernest Nadal, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) & Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), Hospital Duran i Reynals, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Panelists:
Jordi Rodón, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
Anna Peiró, Oncology Medical Director, AstraZeneca, Madrid.
Michael Lahn, Chief Medical Officer at iOnctura SA, Genève, Switzerland.
PharmaMar, Madrid.
12.30 – 14.00 POSTER SESSION & LUNCH BREAK
14.00 – 16.00 SESSION IV: ADVANCED IMMUNOTHERAPIES
Chair:
Josep Maria Piulats & Lourdes Farré, Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), Hospital Duran i Reynals & Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
14.00 – 14.30 Glycocheckpoints: beyond the PD1-pdL1 axis
Gabriel Rabinovich, CaixaResearch Institute, Barcelona.
14.30 – 15.00 TITLE
Luis Álvarez-Vallina, Hospital del Mar Research Institute Barcelona (HMRIB), Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), Barcelona.
15.00 – 15.30 TITLE
Juan José Rojas, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
15.30 – 16.00 SELECTED ABSTRACTS – SHORT TALKS
16.00h – 17.00h CLOSING KEYNOTE LECTURE
Francisca Vazquez, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
17.00 – 17.15 CONCLUDING REMARKS