9 July 2025
DKFZ Communication Center
Europe/Berlin timezone

Program

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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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