On 3 and 4 May, the 2nd IMMUNO-MODEL WORKSHOP was held in Copenhagen in a hybrid format. This was an event co-organized with the sinonasal tumor study group, EUSICA. The workshop addressed aspects such as improved diagnosis and treatment and personalized patient education, among others.
With respect to the objectives of our Action, it is important to highlight the participation of Dr Russell W. Jenkins, from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center (USA), who presented his work on ex vivo models for the study of the response of immunotherapies based on immune checkpoint inhibitors. Also, Dr. Anja K. Wege from the University Hospital Regensburg (Germany) gave a lecture about humanized mouse models.
In addition, a call for abstracts was organized for young investigators with 7 participants in total. Prizes were awarded to the three best presenters: Louisa Hell from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany); Rocio Garcia-Marin from the Instituto de Investigacion sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (Spain) and Sannia Sjösted from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
The last session was devoted to discuss possible future collaborations between EUSICA and IMMUNO-model. The WS was a success with more than 60 participants, among them, our Chair Eva Martinez-Balibrea from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Badalona, Spain) and Vice-Chair Leticia Oliveira-Ferrer from the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany) attended the meeting in person and participated as presenters and chairs of different sessions.
Picture attached:
1. Part of the organizing committee: Eva Martinez-Balibrea, IMMUNO-model Chair
Mario Hermsen, Instituto de investigación sanitaria del principado de Asturias (Spain)
Matt Lechner, University College London (UK)
Christian Von Buchwald, Righospitalet (Denmark)
Patrick Rene Gerhard Eriksen, Righospitalet (Denmark)
2. General view, speaker Robbie Woods
3. Russel W Jenkins’ talk