On 7th June we welcomed 160 members of the Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network to the Mathematical Institute in Oxford for our annual in-person Symposium.
It was an absolute pleasure and honour to welcome Professor Lieping Chen from Yale School of Medicine to deliver our Keynote talk on the immunology of non-inflamed cancer. The other sessions featured talks grouped into the themes of:
- Immunotherapy and Resistance (Professor Eleanor Stride; Dr Richard Owen; Associate Professor Eileen Parkes; Associate Professor Graham Collins; Dr Phil Xie)
- PPIE in non-clinical research using 'what matters most to people with colorectal cancer' as an exemplar (Philip Edge; Professor Simon Buczacki; Dr Catriona Gilmour Hamilton)
- The Tumour Microenvironment (Professor Dame Fiona Powrie; Professor Eric O’Neill; Dr Simon Davis; Dr Luyao Wang; Delaney Dominey-Foy)
- Specificity and Function (Dr Ricardo Fernandes; Professor Tao Dong; Dr Megat Hafizzuddin Bin Abd Hamid; Professor Omer Dushek; Dr Matthew Raybould; Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho; Kristen Koopmans)
The day was also filled with some fantastic posters, exhibition stands and plenty of opportunities to establish new interdisciplinary connections. Congratulations to our poster prize winner and runner up Lea Cohen and Delaney Dominey-Foy!
OCION's Founding Director Professor Tim Elliott said:
What an action packed day showcasing the incredible interdisciplinary immuno-oncology work going on across Oxford! A huge thank you to all of our presenters, patient representatives, sponsors, poster judges, chairs and the operations team who made the Symposium such a great event.
- Tim Elliott
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