BREAST-PREDICT Symposium on cancer imaging
Join the Irish Cancer Society Collaborative Research Centre BREAST-PREDICT for a day-long multi-disciplinary overview of current advances in imaging cancer from molecules to humans, with talks from national and international speakers.
- WHAT: 'Cancer Imaging: from Molecules to Humans'
- WHEN: Thursday 17th May 2018, 11:00 - 17:00
- WHERE UCD Conway Institute Lecture
Researchers, investigators, clinicians and everyone interested is welcome to attend upon free registration! Coffee breaks & light lunch provided.
AGENDA
10:30 – 11:00 Registration and coffee
11:00 – 11:10 Welcome address: Prof. William Gallagher, Director of the UCD Conway Institute, Professor of Cancer Biology at UCD and Director of BREAST-PREDICT
11:10 – 13:10 Session 1, Chair: Assoc. Prof. Aoife Gowen, Associate Professor, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering
11:10 – 11:40 High Content Analysis - a valuable tool for cancer research
Prof. Aideen Long, Professor in Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine
11:40 – 12:10 Label free spectroscopic imaging for pre-cancer and cancer diagnosis
Prof. Fiona Lyng, Professor, Dublin Institute of Technology and Head of the DIT Centre for Radiation and Environmental Science
12:10 – 12:40 Fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology via digital pathology and automated image analysis
Prof. William Gallagher, UCD
12:40 – 13:10 High sensitivity deep tissue imaging of structure and function for applications in cancer and regenerative medicine
Prof. Martin Leahy, Professor and Chair of Applied Physics, NUI Galway and Adjunct Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons
13:10 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:50 Session 2, Chair: Prof. William Gallagher, UCD
14:00 – 14:30 Bio-responsive near infrared fluorophores for real-time imaging
Prof. Donal O’Shea, Professor and Head of Department of Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
14:30 – 15:30 Keynote: Translational imaging: exploiting tumour growth signals and microstructure for imaging
Prof. Eric Aboagye, Professor of Cancer Pharmacology & Molecular Imaging and Director of the CRUK-EPSRC-MRC-NIHR Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre, Imperial College London
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 – 16:50 Session 3, Chair: Prof. William Gallagher
15:50 – 16:20 Microwave breast imaging - from concept to first patient study in Ireland
Dr. Martin O’Halloran, Senior Lecturer, School of E&I/School of Medicine, NUI Galway and Director of the Translational Medical Device Lab
16:20 – 16:50 Image guided surgery - here and now
Prof. Ronan Cahill, Professor of Surgery Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science
16:50 – 17:00 Discussion and closing remarks.
For any queries, please contact: luciana.herda@ucd.ie or emer.conroy@ucd.ie.
