Science for Society - Precision medicine in cancer therapy
Tue 25 Feb
|Italian Cultural Institute
The Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with AISUK, presents the fourth Science for Society event: Precision medicine in cancer therapy.
Time & Location
25 Feb 2020, 18:30 – 20:00
Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London SW1X 8NT, UK
About the event
Charles Swanton and Alberto Bardelli will discuss cancer progression as an evolutionary process and explore how this way of looking at cancer may lead to more effective strategies for managing and treating it. The speakers will compare cancer evolution to organismal evolution, including viruses and describe how ecological theories and mathematical models are being used to understand the complex dynamics between a tumor and its microenvironment during cancer progression. Finally, they will discuss improved methods to monitor tumor evolution (e.g., liquid biopsies) and the development of more effective strategies for managing and treating cancers (e.g., immunotherapies).
Speakers
CHARLES SWANTON completed his MD PhD training in 1999 at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories and Cancer Research UK clinician scientist/medical oncology training in 2008. Charles combines his laboratory research at the Francis Crick Institute with clinical duties at UCLH and as director of the CRUK UCL Lung Cancer Centre, focussed on how…