The Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network (OCION) Annual Symposium brings together scientists from different disciplines, cutting-edge technologies and patient samples to progress our immuno-oncology understanding to the next level. The 3rd OCION Annual Symposium will be hosted at the Mathematics Institute in Oxford on 13th June 2025. The conference aims to help catalyse immuno-oncology research across Oxford.
Programme:
08:30 Arrival and registration
09:00-09:15 Welcome Tim Elliott
Next Generation Therapies
09:15-09:35 Vaccine platforms for cancer vaccines – much of a muchness or fundamentally different? (Ellie Barnes)
09:35-09:55 Anti-tumour impacts of Antiviral responses (Paul Klenerman)
09:55-10:15 The impact of the bone marrow microenvironment upon CAR-T function (Ronjon Chakraverty)
10:15-10:20 FLASH
10:20-10:25 FLASH
10:25 -11:00 Coffee
Inflammation and Immunometabolism
11.00-11.20 TBC (Calli Dendrou)
11:20-11:40 Eosinophil deactivation by the breast tumour microenvironment can be reversed by interferons (Kim Midwood)
11:40-12:00 Developing ex vivo models for investigating natural and therapeutic regulation of human adaptive immunity (Pablo Céspedes Donoso)
12:00-12:05 FLASH
12:05-12:10 FLASH
12:10-12:15 Immunotherapy Advances (Tim Elliott)
12:15-13:45 Lunch (posters 12:45-13:30)
13:45-14:15 PPIE Quiz! (Catriona Gilmour-Hamilton)
Immunotherapy-Refractory Cancers
14:15-14:35 Lymph node yield as an immunological marker of primary colorectal cancer biology (Simon Buczacki)
14:35-14:55 Scratching below the surface of skin cancer in high-risk groups using spatial profiling (Matthew Bottomley)
14:55-15:15 Hypoxia-mediated repression of MHC-I and antigen presentation (Ester Hammond)
15:15-15:35 TBC
15:35-15:40 FLASH
15:40-15:45 FLASH
15:45-16:10 Coffee
16:10-16:50 Keynote: Rewiring immune responses for advancing cancer immunotherapy (Alfred Zippelius)
16:50-17:00 Awards and closing remarks Tim Elliott
17:00-18:15 Drinks reception