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Overview (detailed pdf program for download)
09:00 - 09:25: Welcome and introduction to DKTK Heidelberg Christiane Opitz, spokesperson DKTK Translation Center Heidelberg, DKFZ
09:25 - 10:00: Keynote lecture: Applications of Translational Data Science in Drug R&D 
Andreas Raue, Department of Computer Science, Augsburg University
10:00 – 10:45: Translation and transfer of preclinical research into medical application (1)
•   Spin-off or not to Spin-off?
       Rainer Wessel, Innovation Management, DKFZ 
•   Revolutionizing Precision Oncology - Methylation-based Tumor Classification
       Helge Lubenow, Heidelberg Epignostix GmbH
10:45 – 10:55: Comfort Break
10:55 – 12:00: Translation and transfer of preclinical research into medical application (2)
•   beLAB2122: the BRIDGE to translation in the Rhine-Main-Neckar Academic Ecosystem 
Friedrich Reinhard, Evotec
•   Selenocysteine metabolism as a targetable vulnerability in cancer
Hamed Alborzinia, HI-STEM 
•   A long peptide vaccine targeting the clonal driver mutation H3K27M in diffuse midline gliomas
Katharina Sahm, CCU Neuroimmunology and Brain Tumor Immunology 
12:00 – 12:45: Group picture and Lunch Break, Foyer
12:45 – 13:10: Reverse translation of Multi-Omic Cancer Profiling
Peter Horak, NCT Heidelberg 
13:10 - 14:15: Short presentations and Flash Talks from selected poster abstracts
•   Quality-assured tissue biobanking for oncology research – curse or blessing
Alexander Brobeil, UKHD, NCT Biobank Heidelberg
•   Reprogramming the Neuroblastoma Microenvironment with JAK Inhibition and Checkpoint Therapy (REJAKT-NB)
Pascal Kohmann, DKFZ, KiTZ
•   Towards Molecular MR Mammography for Cancer Care (MAMMCARE)
Philip Boyd, DKFZ
Selected Poster Abstracts:
•   Robust detection, classification, and monitoring of pediatric brain tumors from cell-free DNA methylomes
Kendra Maaß, DKFZ, KiTZ
•   PERSIST-B7H6 Preclinical Development and a First-in-Human Trial of B7H6-Knockout CD19 CAR T Cells with Enhanced Persistence in B-cell Malignancies
Julian Zoller, DKFZ
•   MYC on Repeat: Linear and ecDNA Amplification as Drivers of Pancreatic Cancer  Heterogeneity and Therapeutic Resistance
Sadaf Mughal, DKFZ
•   Multimodal Liquid Biopsy Analysis for Molecular Stratification and Therapy Monitoring in Solid Tumors
Anja Riediger, DKFZ, NCT Heidelberg
•   From 3D Spheroid Proteomics to Patient Imaging: Predicting Tumor Hypoxia and Its Microenvironment in HNSCC
Maria Besso, DKFZ
•   MAC-Scoring predicts response to HMA/Venetoclax in AML
Simon Renders, DKFZ
14:15: - 15:30: Poster Session and Coffee Break, Foyer
15:30 - 16:00: Wrapping it up: Current priorities and future strategies of DKTK Heidelberg
16:00: Farewell and end of retreat
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