TUESDay 3 December
19:00
Get together and networking event @ Restaurant Urban Kitchen (Poststr. 36/5 in Heidelberg)​​
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WEDNESDAY 4 December
9:00–10:30
Session 1
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9:00-9:30 Welcome & Introduction of DG-GT and of the Academy concept
Hildegard Büning, Hannover Medical School and Dirk Nettelbeck, NCT Heidelberg
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9:30-10:30 Scientific & mentoring Talk
Hildegard Büning, Hannover Medical School
10:30-11:00
Coffee break & organisation of chairs / order of talks
11:00-12:30
Session 2
11:00-11:30 Student presentation 1
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11:30-12:00 Student presentation 2
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12:00-12:30 Student presentation 3
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Session 3
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13:30-14:30 Florian Kühnel, Hannover Medical School
Molecular retargeting and immunoactivation in adenovirotherapy
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14:30-15:00
Coffee break
15:00-16:00
Session 4
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15:00-15:30 Student presentation 4
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15:30-16:00 Student presentation 5
17:00-19:00
Guided tour of the city
19:00-20:00
Dinner on Heidelberg Christmas market
20:00-21:00
Drinks
THURsday 5 December
9:00–10:30
Session 5
9:00-10:00 Per Sonne Holm
​From ribozyme to virotherapy: An unexpected research time journey
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10:00-10:30 Student presentation 6
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-12:30
Session 6
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11:00-12:00 Jenifer Altamonte, TUM, Munich
Chimeric oncolytic VSV-NDV for syncytia-mediated immunogenic cell death and systemic immune activation
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12:00- 12:30 Student presentation 7
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Session 7
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14:00-14:30 Student presentation 8
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14:30-15:00 Student presentation 9
15:00- 18:00
Visit of National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg
Focus on clinical translation of immunovirotherapy in Heidelberg
Hosts: Guy Ungerechts and Mathias F. Leber
18:30-21:00
Surprise activity
FRIDAY 6 December
9:00–10:30
Session 8
9:00-10:00 Anja Ehrhardt, Universität Witten/Herdecke
​Exploration of human adenovirus diversity for virotherapy: Engineering platforms to improve oncolytic adenoviruses
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10:00-10:30 Student presentation 10​​
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10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-12:30
Session 9​
11:00- 11:30 Student presentation 11
11:30-12:30 Dirk Nettelbeck, DKFZ, Heidelberg​​
Adenovirotherapy approaches – multi-tasking and personal​​​
12:30-13:30
Lunch and farewell
Student presentations to be distributed above
Lisa-Marie Kiara Dawson: Novel approaches for oncolytic viral therapy in lung cancer with species B adenoviruses
Felicia Segeth:Targeting CDK4/6 and BRD4 induces P-TEFb release and improves oncolytic virotherapy
Stavros Sotiriadis: Multimodal therapy approaches for NUT carcinoma
Fiona Nitschke: Systematic screening of virotherapy and BET/p300-inhibitor combinations for treatment of NUT carcinoma.
Christine Mayr:Establishing a three-dimensional lung cancer organoid model for assessing the effects of oncolytic virotherapy.
Laura Kayser: Optimized RNA-switches facilitate dynamic drug-dependent induction of therapeutic protein expression by oncolytic adenoviruses
Seyed Amir Shakouri: Retargeting of AAV9 to Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Interstitial Cells
Ina Luksch: Base Editing through Adeno-Associated Viruses (AAV) in a porcine model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Adrian Eilert: Measles-encoded transcriptome editing to boost oncolytic measles virus efficacy
Katia Dittus: Deciphering and modifying Radiovirotherapy
Toni Rabensteiner: TBD