Final Programme / Book of Abstracts is available HERE

November 7, 2024 / Thursday
9:00-9:30Registration
9:30-10:00Opening
SESSION 1 – Clinical Care & Diagnostics
Chairs: Vesna Musani, Miljana Tanić / Maja Sirotković-Skerlev, Ana Podolski-Renić
10:00-10:30Miljana Tanić (Serbia)
"Biobanking from Scratch: A Roadmap to Setup a Rectal Cancer Biobank Within the STEPUPIORS Project"
10:30-11:00Iva Kirac (Croatia)
"Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) Related Mutations in a Breast Cancer Patient Cohort"
11:00-11:15Ivica Belina (Croatia)
"Access to Precision Medicine for Cancer Patients in Croatia"
11:15-11:45Coffee Break
11:45-12:15Ana Podolski-Renić (Serbia)
"Functional Diagnostics in Personalized Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma"
12:15-12:30Josipa Čonkaš (Croatia)
"Exploring the Role of Estrogen Receptors in Head and Neck Cancer: Implications for Progression and Treatment"
12:30-12:45Katarina Zeljić (Serbia)
"Relevance of Studying hsa-miR-675 in Cancer: Bioinformatic Characterization, Database Analysis and Validation in Oral Cancer Clinical Samples"
12:45-13:00Marija Ljubojević (Croatia)
"Cisplatin Induction of Mesenchymal, Interstitial Cells Proliferation and Invasion in Experimental Nephrotoxicity"
13:00-13:15Marina Panek (Croatia)
"Advanced Molecular Technologies in the Fight Against Cancer: Single-Cell Sequencing & Digital PCR" [Sponsored by Labena d.o.o.]
13:15-14:15Lunch Break
14:15-15:00POSTER SESSION
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Sonja Levanat
15:00-15:45René Bernards (Netherlands)
"Therapeutic Over-Activation of Oncogenic Signaling as a Cancer Treatment Strategy" [Sponsored by EACR]
SESSION 2 – Emerging Hallmarks of Cancer
Chairs: Petar Ozretić, Gary Moran / Sandra Sobočanec, Aleksanda Janković
15:45-16:15Gary Moran (Ireland)
"The Microbiome of Oral Potentially Malignant Disease: Can We Predict Malignant Progression?"
16:15-16:30Kristina Lukić (Croatia/Canada)
"Identification of Proximity-Dependent Effector Proteins Altering Membrane Protein Localization via Human ORFeome-Wide Screening"
16:30-16:45Maja Ledinski (Croatia)
"Ascorbate, in the Presence of bFGF, Alters Metabolic Pathways in Soft Tissue Sarcoma Stem Cells"
16:45-17:15Coffee Break
17:15-17:45Aleksanda Janković (Serbia)
"Deciphering the Dangerous Liaison of 'Fat' and 'Thin' in Breast Cancer"
17:45-18:15Özlen Konu (Türkiye)
"CAP-RNAseq, an Online Application for Clustering, Annotation and Prioritization of RNA-Seq Data: Essential Genes in Cancer and Senescence"
18:15-18:30Ivana Samaržija (Croatia)
"The Extracellular Matrix Component Perlecan/HSPG2 Regulates Radioresistance in Prostate Cancer Cells"
18:30-18:45Nikolina Filipović (Croatia)
"Maltol as a Carrier Ligand of Copper(II) and Vanadium(IV) Ions in Tumor Cell Lines"
November 8, 2024 / Friday
SESSION 3 – Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis
Chairs: Ivan Šamija, Tanja Matijević Glavan / Neda Slade, Siniša Volarević
9:00-9:30Tanja Matijević Glavan (Croatia)
"The Role of TLR3 and DAMPs in Cancer Stem Cells"
9:30-10:00Inga Urlić (Croatia)
"Cancer Stem Cell Population Through Different Stages of Osteosarcoma"
10:00-10:15Alojzija Brčić (Croatia)
"Ribonucleotide Reductase in Replication Stress-Induced Differentiation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
10:15-10:30Robert Stad (USA)
"From Spatial Discovery to Spatial Signatures, at Scale: Akoya Biosciences Solutions for Multiplex Fluorescent IHC" [Sponsored by a&b d.o.o.]
10:30-11:00Coffee Break [Sponsored by Gorea Plus d.o.o.]
11:00-11:30Siniša Volarević (Croatia)
"How do Cells with Impaired Ribosome Production Become Malignant?"
11:30-12:00Nino Sinčić (Croatia)
"Epigenetics in Prostate Cancer: Game Changer or Just Another Stray?"
12:00-12:15Petra Korać (Croatia)
"RNA-Sequencing Identification of Genes Supporting HepG2 as a Model Cell Line for Hepatocellular Carcinoma or Hepatocytes"
12:15-12:30Marija Mioč (Croatia)
"Hybrids of Harmine and Quinoline-Based Antimalarials Show a Strong Antiproliferative Effect on Glioblastoma Cells and Reverse ABC Transporters-Mediated Drug Resistance"
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
SESSION 4 – Tumor Therapy & Resistance
Chairs: Maja Sabol, Neil Conlon / Katja Ester, Rainer Schindl
13:30-14:00Neil Conlon (Ireland)
"OvaLoad: the Combinatorial Use of DNA-Damaging Antibody-Drug Conjugates and Targeted Therapies for Ovarian Cancer"
14:00-14:30Mladen Paradžik (Croatia)
"Modulation of the Adhesion Complex by miR-214 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer"
14:30-14:45Maja Jazvinšćak Jembrek (Croatia)
"Synergistic Anticancer Effects of Flavonoid Myricitrin and Copper: Targeting Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis in Neuroblastoma Cells"
14:45-15:00Ines Topalović Piteša (Croatia)
"Non-Invasive and Label-Free Live Cell Imaging, Weighing and Sorting in 3D and More!"
[Sponsored by Altium International d.o.o.]
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-16:00Rainer Schindl (Austria)
"Localized Cancer Treatment with Iontronic Devices: Continuous Chemotherapy and Triggered Release of Therapeutics"
16:00-16:30Anamaria Brozović (Croatia)
"Interconnection of Drug Resistance and Drug-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Ovarian Cancer"
16:30-17:00Marijeta Kralj (Croatia)
"Deciphering the Role of the Golgi Apparatus in Cancer Progression and Treatment"
17:00-17:15Ignacija Vlašić (Croatia)
"Determining the Role of microRNAs in the Acquired Resistance to Targeted Therapy in Metastatic Melanoma Cells"
17:15-17:30Closing & Best Posters Awards [Sponsored by EACR]