2nd Kaunas International Hematology/Oncology Colloquium "New treatment modalities: molecular and cellular therapies"
 
 

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Monday, 22 May 2017
 
 
08:00 - 08:30Registration | Sponsors Exhibition
08:30 - 08:50Welcome speech and opening of the conference
Prof. Remigijus Zaliunas, Rector of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
Prof. Renaldas Jurkevicius, Director General of Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos
Prof. Aurelijus Veryga, Minister of Health of Lithuania

Session I
Chairs: Prof. Daiva Rastenyte, Prof. Dietger Niederwieser
08:50 - 09:20JACIE regulation in Europe and worldwide
Eoin McGrath (Barcelona, Spain)
09:20 - 09:50New therapy options / possibilities from a patient´s perspective
Anita Waldmann (Ruesselsheim, Germany)
09:50 - 10:30The first successful cellular therapy: allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Prof. Dietger Niederwieser (Leipzig, Germany)
10:30 - 11:10Coffee break | Press conference | Sponsors exhibition

Session II
Chairs: Prof. Vaiva Lesauskaite, Assoc. prof. Rolandas Gerbutavicius
11:10 - 11:30How digital tools can improve patient care
Domas Vaitiekus (Kaunas, Lithuania)
11:30 - 12:10Multiple Myeloma: a complex disease
Prof. Wieslaw Wiktor Jedrzejczak (Warsaw, Poland)
12:10 - 12:30Autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for myeloma
Dr. Milda Rudzianskiene (Kaunas, Lithuania)
12:30 - 13:10Autologous stem cell transplantation in lymphoma
Prof. Peter Dreger (Heidelberg, Germany)
13:10 - 14:10Lunch break | Sponsors exhibition

Session III
Chairs: Prof. Elona Juozaityte, Prof. Sonata Jarmalaite
14:10 - 14:50Graft manipulation procedures in matched or mismatched stem cell transplantation with following immune therapy
Prof. Peter Lang (Tubingen, Germany)
14:50 - 15:40Applying Genome Editing Technologies for Target Identification, Validation and novel Treatment Combinations
Prof. Roderick L. Beijersbergen (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
15:40 - 16:20Cellular therapy for the treatment of neurological diseases
Prof. Frank Edenhofer (Innsbruck, Austria)
16:20 - 16:40Coffee break | Sponsors exhibition

Session IV
Chairs: Prof. Inga Bumblyte, Dr. Vladan Vucinic
16:40 - 17:10Acute lymphocytic leukemia treatment protocols
Dr. Vladan Vucinic (Leipzig, Germany)
17:10 - 17:30Can we induce treatment free remissions with molecular therapy in chronic myelogenous leukemia?
Assoc. prof. Rolandas Gerbutavicius (Kaunas, Lithuania)
17:30 - 17:50Cellular therapy for immune modulation
Egle Simaskiene (Kaunas, Lithuania)
17:50 - 18:00Concluding remarks
Prof. Dietger Niederwieser (Leipzig, Germany)


The Conference is intended for hematologists, pediatric hematologists, doctors of transfusion medicine, clinical toxicologists, medical oncologists, allergologists and clinical immunologists, radiation oncologists, doctors of laboratory medicine, geneticists, biologists, nurses and doctors of other specialties.