About Us

Since 2016, Weill Cornell Medicine (New York) and the Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus (Paris) have joined forces to organize an annual conference that provides a forum for education, discussion, and networking among investigators interested in developing safe and effective RT-IT combinations (ImmunoRad).

Contact Info

Email
Tina Zaarour

Phone
+33 1 42 11 49 02

  Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus,
Research Department
Pièce 65 - B2M

 

Our Events Schedule Plan

  • 17Sept. 2025

    Microphone 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, USA
     
    12:00 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 exhibition
     

    Microphone 11.10 am-1.30 pm: OPENING

    Welcome and introduction

    PRIMER ON RADIATIONS, CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY

    Microphone 2.00 pm-4.00 pm Session I:

    Cancer immunology and Immunotherapy

    (Oliver Kepp, Alexandre Bobard)

    Microphone 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, UK

    Microphone 2:30 pm-3:00 pm: Diagnosis of gut dysbiosis and relevance for clinical outcome
    Dr Lisa Derosa
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 3:00 pm-3:30 pm: Neuroendocrine control of tumor immunosurveillance
    Pr Guido Kroemer
    Cordeliers Research Center, FR

    Microphone 3:30 pm-4:00 pm: Impact of the mitochondrial hub on the cytotoxicity and immunogenicity of radiation therapy
    Dr Lorenzo Galluzzi 
    Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA

    4:00 pm-4:30 pm: Coffee break and exhibition


    Microphone 4.30 pm-6.30 pm Session II:

    Radiation dose, modalities and resistance

     (François de Kermengy, Eric Deutsch)

    Microphone 4:30 pm-5:00 pm: Radiotherapy and immunotherapy: better with particles?
    Pr Marco Durante
    German Cancer Research Center, G

    Microphone 5:00 pm-5:30 pm: Heterogeneous intratumor irradiation: a new partner for immunotherapy
    Dr Michele Mondini
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 5:30 pm-6:00 pm: Precision TIME reprogramming by next-generation particle radiotherapy
    Pr Amir Abdollahi
    NCT Heidelberg, G

    Microphone 6:00 pm-6:30 pm: Metabolic mechanisms of immune resistance in irradiated glioblastomas
    Dr Claire Vanpouille-Box
    Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

    Microphone 6.30 pm-9.00 pm

    Cocktail poster session and exhibition

     
     
  • 18Sept. 2025

    MAIN PROGRAM

    Microphone 8.30-10.00 Session III:

    Myeloid cells

    (Paul Bergeron, Jessica Zucman-Rossi)

    Microphone 8.30-9.00: Complementary roles of spatially restricted and ontogenically distinct lung macrophages during sepsis-trained immunity
    Pr Antoine Roquilly
    Nantes University, FR

    Microphone 9.00-9.30: Blocking IL-18BP improves tumour control by radiotherapy
    Anne-Gaëlle Goubet
    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Microphone 9.30-10.00: Association of immunotherapy and radiotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
    Dr Yungan Tao
    Gustave Roussy, FR 

    10.00-10.30 Coffee break and exhibition


    Microphone 10.30-12.30 Session IV:

    Immunosuppression

     (Michele Mondini)

    Microphone 10.30-11.00: Unraveling the Complexity of Cancer Ecosystems Following Therapeutic Intervention
    Pr Johanna Joyce
    University of Lausanne, SW

    Microphone 11.00-11.30: Deciphering the spatial landscape and plasticity of immunosuppressive fibroblasts in breast cancer
    Dr Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou
    Institut Curie, FR

    Microphone 11.30-12.00: Improving radiotherapy in immunosuppressive microenvironments by targeting complement receptor C5aR1
    Dr Monica Olcina
    University of Oxford, UK

    Microphone 12.00-12.30: Microbiota-Primed Fibroblasts Contribute to Radiotherapy-Induced Lung Metastasis Progression
    Dr András PIFFKÓ
    University of Chicago, USA

    12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition

    13.00-14.00 – Telix industrial session
    Radioligand therapies and immunomodulators: single riders or winning duo?


    Microphone 14.00-16.00 Session V:

    DNA damage

    (Marco Moreira/Caroline Robert)

    Microphone 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, USA

    Microphone14.30-15.00: 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, FR
     

    Microphone 15.00-15.30: STING agonism during adjuvant immunotherapy for radiocurable cancers
    Pr Kevin Harrington
    ICR, UK 

    Microphone 15.30-16.00: Radiation and replication stress induced sources of cytosolic nucleic acids and cGAS-STING activation
    Dr Crispin Hiley
    UCL Cancer Institute

    16.00-16.30 coffee break and exhibition


    Microphone 16.30-18.00 Session VI:

    Next generation Immunotherapy

     (Marie Morfouace, Laurie Menger)

    Microphone 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, FR

    Microphone17.00-17.30: Neutrophil extracellular traps in radioimmunotherapy
    Pr Ignacio Melero
    Clinica Universidad de Navarra, S

    Microphone 17.30-18.00: New immune-based approaches in the clinic
    Pr Fabrice Barlesi
    Gustave Roussy, FR 

    Microphone 18.00-18.30: NNMT inhibition in cancer-associated fibroblasts restores antitumour immunity
    Dr Janna Heide
    University of Chicago, USA

    Microphone 20.00-00.00

    Gala dinner

  • 19Sept. 2025

    Microphone 8.30-10.0    Session VII:

    Tumor Microenvironment

     (Marine Fidelle, Carolina Alves Costa Silva)

    Microphone 8.30-9.00: Biomarker-Guided Selection for FLASH and Low-Dose Immunomodulation,
    Dr Fernanda Herrera
    CHUV, SW

    Microphone 9.00-9.30: 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 Zurich

    Microphone 9.30-10.00: 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, SG

    10.00-10.30 Coffee break and exhibition

    Microphone 10.30-12.30 Session VIII:

    AI, Imaging and Radiomics

     (Ibrahim Bouakka, Nathan Benzazon)

    Microphone 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 , NL

    Microphone 11.00-11.30: Translational frontiers and clinical opportunities of immunologically-fitted radiotherapy
    Pr Eric Deutsch
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 11.30-12.00: Interventional Radiology For Cancer Immunotherapy: past, present and future
    Pr Lambros Tselikas
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 12.00-12.30:  Preserving the immune system in radiotherapy: modelling and AI tools
    Dr Charlotte Robert
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition

    13.15-14.00 – Ankyra industrial session
     Anchored Immunotherapy: Is there a role for the radiation oncologist?

     

    Microphone 14.00-16.00 Session IX:

    Adaptive Immunity

     (Pierre-Antoine Laurent, Céline Mirjolet)


    Microphone 14.00-14.30: Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy
    Pr Silvia Formenti
    Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

    Microphone 14.30-15.00: Immunoradiotherapy in solid tumors: Enhancing antitumor immunity through BO-112 and radiation-induced FAP modulation.
    Dr Maria Esperanza Rodriguez Ruiz
    Clinica Universidad de Navarra, S

    Microphone 15.00-15.30: Metabolism at the cross road between gut commensalism and cancer immunosurveillance
    Pr Laurence Zitvogel
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 15.30-16.00: Targeting Mechanism of checkpoint resistance
    Pr James Welsh
    MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

    16.00-16.30 Coffee break and exhibition

    Microphone 16.30-18.00 Session X:

    Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

     (Lydia Meziani, Jean-Pierre Pouget)


    Microphone 16.30-17.00: Nuclear Medicine at the era of AI and Precision Oncology
    Dr Desirée Deandreis
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 17.00-17.30: Radiolabeled antibody therapy in immunotherapy-resistant lung cancer: predicting outcomes via CD8 T lymphocyte immunoPET imaging
    Dr Charles Truillet
    CEA, FR

    Microphone 17.30-18.00:  PD-1 blockade enhances therapeutic effects of anti-CEA 177Lu-DOTA-M5A in colorectal cancer CEA-transgenic mice
    Dr Tabassom Mohajershojai
    Karolinska Institute, STBD