17Sept. 2025
11.10 am-1.30 pm - Opening
Welcome and introduction: Eric Deutsch, phD, MD
Director of Gustave Roussy Radiation Oncology Department and INSERM UMR 1030
11.15 am-12.00 am – Keynote lecture - How to improve immunotherapy radiotherapy combinations
Pr Ralph Weichselbaum, Chicago University, USA12:00 pm-1:00 pm industrial session
Johnson & Johnson
Unlocking Novel Intratumoral Cancer Therapies Through Pharma and Medtech Synergies.1:00 pm-2:00 pm Coffee break and exhibition11.10 am-1.30 pm: OPENING
Welcome and introduction
PRIMER ON RADIATIONS, CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY
2.00 pm-4.00 pm Session I:
Cancer immunology and Immunotherapy
(Oliver Kepp, Alexandre Bobard)
2:00 pm-2:30 pm: Reprogramming the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment results in successful clearance of tumors resistant to radiation therapy and anti-PD-1/PD-L1
Pr Tim Illidge
Manchester Cancer Research Center, UK2:30 pm-3:00 pm: Diagnosis of gut dysbiosis and relevance for clinical outcome
Dr Lisa Derosa
Gustave Roussy, FR3:00 pm-3:30 pm: Neuroendocrine control of tumor immunosurveillance
Pr Guido Kroemer
Cordeliers Research Center, FR3:30 pm-4:00 pm: Impact of the mitochondrial hub on the cytotoxicity and immunogenicity of radiation therapy
Dr Lorenzo Galluzzi
Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA4:00 pm-4:30 pm: Coffee break and exhibition
4.30 pm-6.30 pm Session II:
Radiation dose, modalities and resistance
(François de Kermengy, Eric Deutsch)
4:30 pm-5:00 pm: Radiotherapy and immunotherapy: better with particles?
Pr Marco Durante
German Cancer Research Center, G5:00 pm-5:30 pm: Heterogeneous intratumor irradiation: a new partner for immunotherapy
Dr Michele Mondini
Gustave Roussy, FR5:30 pm-6:00 pm: Precision TIME reprogramming by next-generation particle radiotherapy
Pr Amir Abdollahi
NCT Heidelberg, G6:00 pm-6:30 pm: Metabolic mechanisms of immune resistance in irradiated glioblastomas
Dr Claire Vanpouille-Box
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA6.30 pm-9.00 pm
Cocktail poster session and exhibition
18Sept. 2025
MAIN PROGRAM
8.30-10.00 Session III:
Myeloid cells
(Paul Bergeron, Jessica Zucman-Rossi)
8.30-9.00: Complementary roles of spatially restricted and ontogenically distinct lung macrophages during sepsis-trained immunity
Pr Antoine Roquilly
Nantes University, FR9.00-9.30: Blocking IL-18BP improves tumour control by radiotherapy
Anne-Gaëlle Goubet
University of Geneva, Switzerland9.30-10.00: Association of immunotherapy and radiotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Dr Yungan Tao
Gustave Roussy, FR10.00-10.30 Coffee break and exhibition
10.30-12.30 Session IV:
Immunosuppression
(Michele Mondini)
10.30-11.00: Unraveling the Complexity of Cancer Ecosystems Following Therapeutic Intervention
Pr Johanna Joyce
University of Lausanne, SW11.00-11.30: Deciphering the spatial landscape and plasticity of immunosuppressive fibroblasts in breast cancer
Dr Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou
Institut Curie, FR11.30-12.00: Improving radiotherapy in immunosuppressive microenvironments by targeting complement receptor C5aR1
Dr Monica Olcina
University of Oxford, UK12.00-12.30: Microbiota-Primed Fibroblasts Contribute to Radiotherapy-Induced Lung Metastasis Progression
Dr András PIFFKÓ
University of Chicago, USA12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition
13.00-14.00 – Telix industrial session
Radioligand therapies and immunomodulators: single riders or winning duo?14.00-16.00 Session V:
DNA damage
(Marco Moreira/Caroline Robert)
14.00-14.30: Deciphering the dialogue between irradiated cancer cells and dendritic cells to improve anti-tumor immune responses
Pr Sandra Demaria
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA14.30-15.00: Epigenetic, transcriptomic and genetic analyses of HR+/HER2- primary and metastatic breast cancer reveals heterogeneous mechanisms of endocrine therapy resistance
Dr Sergey Nikolaev
Gustave Roussy, FR15.00-15.30: STING agonism during adjuvant immunotherapy for radiocurable cancers
Pr Kevin Harrington
ICR, UK15.30-16.00: Radiation and replication stress induced sources of cytosolic nucleic acids and cGAS-STING activation
Dr Crispin Hiley
UCL Cancer Institute16.00-16.30 coffee break and exhibition
16.30-18.00 Session VI:
Next generation Immunotherapy
(Marie Morfouace, Laurie Menger)
16.30-17.00: Impact of tumor microenvironment on efficacy of anti-CD19 CAR T cell therapy or chemotherapy and transplant in large B cell lymphoma
Dr Jerome Galon
Cordeliers Research Center, FR17.00-17.30: Neutrophil extracellular traps in radioimmunotherapy
Pr Ignacio Melero
Clinica Universidad de Navarra, S17.30-18.00: New immune-based approaches in the clinic
Pr Fabrice Barlesi
Gustave Roussy, FR18.00-18.30: NNMT inhibition in cancer-associated fibroblasts restores antitumour immunity
Dr Janna Heide
University of Chicago, USA20.00-00.00
Gala dinner
19Sept. 2025
8.30-10.0 Session VII:
Tumor Microenvironment
(Marine Fidelle, Carolina Alves Costa Silva)
8.30-9.00: Biomarker-Guided Selection for FLASH and Low-Dose Immunomodulation,
Dr Fernanda Herrera
CHUV, SW9.00-9.30: Delayed tumor-draining lymph node irradiation preserves the efficacy of combined radiotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade in models of metastatic disease
Pr Martin Pruschy
University Hospital Zurich9.30-10.00: Tumour-immune microenvironment delineates the evolutionary trajectories of distinct phenotypes of locoregionally-advanced EBV-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Dr Melvin Chua Lee Kiang
Duke-NUS Medical School, SG10.00-10.30 Coffee break and exhibition
10.30-12.30 Session VIII:
AI, Imaging and Radiomics
(Ibrahim Bouakka, Nathan Benzazon)
10.30-11.00: The use of PET for assessing on-treatment changes in radiolabeled anti-PD-L1 uptake during hemoradiotherapy in NSCLC
Pr Idris Bahce
Vanderbilt University Medical Center , NL11.00-11.30: Translational frontiers and clinical opportunities of immunologically-fitted radiotherapy
Pr Eric Deutsch
Gustave Roussy, FR11.30-12.00: Interventional Radiology For Cancer Immunotherapy: past, present and future
Pr Lambros Tselikas
Gustave Roussy, FR12.00-12.30: Preserving the immune system in radiotherapy: modelling and AI tools
Dr Charlotte Robert
Gustave Roussy, FR12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition
13.15-14.00 – Ankyra industrial session
Anchored Immunotherapy: Is there a role for the radiation oncologist?14.00-16.00 Session IX:
Adaptive Immunity
(Pierre-Antoine Laurent, Céline Mirjolet)
14.00-14.30: Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy
Pr Silvia Formenti
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA14.30-15.00: Immunoradiotherapy in solid tumors: Enhancing antitumor immunity through BO-112 and radiation-induced FAP modulation.
Dr Maria Esperanza Rodriguez Ruiz
Clinica Universidad de Navarra, S15.00-15.30: Metabolism at the cross road between gut commensalism and cancer immunosurveillance
Pr Laurence Zitvogel
Gustave Roussy, FR15.30-16.00: Targeting Mechanism of checkpoint resistance
Pr James Welsh
MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA16.00-16.30 Coffee break and exhibition
16.30-18.00 Session X:
Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine
(Lydia Meziani, Jean-Pierre Pouget)
16.30-17.00: Nuclear Medicine at the era of AI and Precision Oncology
Dr Desirée Deandreis
Gustave Roussy, FR17.00-17.30: Radiolabeled antibody therapy in immunotherapy-resistant lung cancer: predicting outcomes via CD8 T lymphocyte immunoPET imaging
Dr Charles Truillet
CEA, FR17.30-18.00: PD-1 blockade enhances therapeutic effects of anti-CEA 177Lu-DOTA-M5A in colorectal cancer CEA-transgenic mice
Dr Tabassom Mohajershojai
Karolinska Institute, STBD