THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th – 54th Floor, Bow Tower, Calgary |
| 7:45 AM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Welcome Address – Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose, POET Congress Co-Chairs
· Dr. Todd Anderson, Cumming School of Medicine |
| 9:40 AM – 10:20 AM | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION – Chair: Dr. Pinaki Bose
KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Dr. Vivek Subbiah, Chief of Early Phase Drug Development, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, TN |
| 10:20 AM – 10:35 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 10:35 AM – 11:25 AM | SESSION 1: Precision Oncology and Clinical Trials Chair: Dr. Steven Yip |
| 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM | Next Generation ctDNA Adaptive Clinical Trials in Breast Cancer –
Dr. Pedram Razavi, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, NY |
| 10:55 AM – 11:00 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Title TBD – Dr. Matthew Frigault, Mass General Brigham, MA |
| 11:20 AM – 11:25 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 11:25 AM – 11:50 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:50 AM – 1:05 PM | SESSION 1 Continued |
| 11:50 AM – 12:10 PM | Targeting the AR Pathway, Novel Agents and Biomarkers – Dr. Daniel Khalaf, Sunnybrook Hospital, ON |
| 12:10 PM – 12:15 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM | Speaker TBD |
| 12:35 PM – 12:40 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 12:40 PM – 1:00 PM | Speaker TBD |
| 1:00 PM – 1:05 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 1:05 PM – 2:05 PM | Lunch |
| 2:10 PM – 3:00 PM | SESSION 2: Liquid Biopsy-Based Approaches in Precision Oncology Chair: TBD |
| 2:10 PM – 2:30 PM | Androgen Receptor Gene Alterations in Treatment-Resistant Prostate Cancer – Dr. Alex Wyatt, University of British Columbia, BC |
| 2:30 PM – 2:35 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 2:35 PM – 2:55 PM | Beyond Mutations: ctDNA to Monitor Treatment Response and Disease Progression – Dr. Julia V. Burnier, McGill University, QC |
| 2:55 PM – 3:00 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:20 PM – 4:35 PM | SESSION 2 Continued |
| 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | Whole Genome Sequencing Enables Ultra-sensitive Cancer Detection – Alexandre Pellan-Cheng, ETS Montréal, QC |
| 3:40 PM – 3:45 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM | From Atlas to Assay: Interpreting Liquid Biopsies through Large-Scale Reference Data – Dr. Eric Zhao, University Health Network, ON |
| 4:05 PM – 4:10 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM | Speaker TBD |
| 4:30 – 4:35 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 4:35 – 4:45 PM | Day 1 Closing Remarks – Drs. Steven Yip & Pinaki Bose, POET Co-Chairs |
| 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM | POET Reception Sky Garden, 54th Floor, Bow Tower |
| 5:30 PM – 8:20 PM | POET Welcome Dinner INNOVATION IN PRECISION ONCOLOGYCo-Chairs Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose Mountain View Room, 54th Floor, Bow TowerACF Opening Remarks – ACF Representative Keynote: Personalized Oncogenomic Medicine Approaches to Expand Treatment Options for Cancer Patients – Dr. Marco Marra, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BCKeynote Speaker – Patient Advocate |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st – 54th Floor, Bow Tower, Calgary |
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00AM – 9:05 AM | Opening Remarks – Drs. Steven Yip & Pinaki Bose, POET Co-Chairs |
| 9:05 AM – 10:20 AM | SESSION 3: Microbiome in Precision Oncology Chair: Dr. Kathy McCoy |
| 9:05 AM – 9:25 AM | Dr. Thomas Gajewski |
| 9:25 AM – 9:30 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Role of the Gut Microbiome in CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy Against Hematologic Malignancies – Dr. Christoph Stein-Thöringer, University Clinic Tuebingen, M3 Research Institute, Austria |
| 9:50 AM – 9:55 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM | Modification of the Gut Microbiome to Improve Outcomes to Immunotherapy in Patients with Cancer – Dr. Arielle Elkrief, CRCHUM, QC |
| 10:15 AM – 10:20 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM | Making the Complex Simple: “Microbiome Therapy” for Cancer Using Metabolites Derived from Gut Microbes – Dr. Douglas Mahoney, University of Calgary, AB |
| 10:50 AM – 10:55 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 10:55 AM – 11:25 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:25 AM – 12:45 PM | SESSION 4: Immuno-Oncology and Cellular Therapy Chair: Dr. Nicolas Jacquelot |
| 11:25 AM – 11:45 AM | Empowering Immunity: Metabolic Regulation of Anti-tumor T Cell Function – Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink, University of British Columbia, BC |
| 11:45 AM – 11:50 AM | Questions & Answers |
| 11:50 PM – 12:10 PM | Title TBD – Dr. Nizar J. Bahlis, University of Calgary, AB |
| 12:10 PM – 12:15 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM | Potential Role for GD T Cells in Immunotherapy – Dr. Pamela Ohashi, University Health Network, ON |
| 12:35 PM – 12:40 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 PM – 3:50 PM | SESSION 5: Precision Oncology and Artificial Intelligence Chair: Dr. Ali Bashashati |
| 1:45 PM – 2:05 PM | All Lesions Matter: Reimagining Response with AI and Radiomics – Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains, University Health Network, ON |
| 2:05 PM – 2:10 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 2:10 PM – 2:30 PM | Harnessing Machine Learning to Advance Cancer Biomarker Science – Dr. Ali Bashashati, University of British Columbia, BC |
| 2:30 PM – 2:35 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 2:35 PM – 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Reading and Writing the Language of Genome – Dr. Hani Goodarzi, Arc Institute, CA |
| 3:20 PM – 3:25 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 3:25 PM – 3:45 PM | Multimodal Generative AI for Precision Health – Dr. Hoifung Poon, University of Washington Medical School, WA |
| 3:45 PM – 3:50 PM | Questions & Answers |
| 3:50 PM – 4:00 PM | Day 2 Closing Remarks – Drs. Steven Yip & Pinaki Bose, POET Co-Chairs |
