17Sept. 2025
11.10-13.30 pm - Opening
Welcome and introduction: Eric Deutsch, phD, MD
Director of Gustave Roussy Radiation Oncology Department and INSERM UMR 1030
11.15-12.00 – Keynote lecture - Radiation-induced amphiregulin drives tumour metastasis
Pr Ralph Weichselbaum, Chicago University, USA12.00-13.00 – LUNCH and LEARN
Johnson & Johnson industrial session13.00-13.30 Coffee break and exhibition11.10-13.30 pm: OPENING
Welcome and introduction
PRIMER ON RADIATIONS, CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY
13.30-15.30 Session I:
Cancer immunology and Immunotherapy
(Oliver Kepp)
13.30-14.00: 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, UK14.00-14.30: Custom scoring based on ecological topology of gut microbiota associated with cancer immunotherapy outcome
Dr Lisa Derosa
Gustave Roussy, FR14.30-15.00: Neuroendocrine control of tumor immunosurveillance
Pr Guido Kroemer
Cordeliers Research Center, FR15.00-15.30: Impact of the mitochondrial hub on the cytotoxicity and immunogenicity of radiation therapy
Dr Lorenzo Galluzzi
Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA15.30-16.00: Coffee break and exhibition
16.00-18.00 Session II:
Radiation dose, modalities and resistance
(François de Kermengy)
16.00-16.30: Charged particles radiotherapy
Pr Marco Durante
GSI, G16.30-17.00: Heterogeneous intratumor irradiation: a new partner for immunotherapy
Dr Michele Mondini
Gustave Roussy, FR17.00-17.30: Next generation approaches in radiotherapy
Pr Amir Abdollahi
NCT Heidelberg, G17.30-18.00: Fatty acid metabolism and radiation-induced anti-tumor immunity
Dr Claire Vanpouille-Box
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA18.00-20.00
Cocktail poster session and exhibition
18Sept. 2025
MAIN PROGRAM
8.30-10.00 Session III:
Myeloid cells
(Paul Bergeron)
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 Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, G12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition
14.00-16.00 Session V:
DNA damage
(Marco Moreira)
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: Micronuclei induced by radiation, replication stress, or chromosome segregation errors do not activate cGAS-STING
Dr Crispin Hiley
UCL Cancer Institute16.00-16.30 coffee break and exhibition
16.30-18.00 Session VI:
Next generation Immunotherapy
(Marie Morfouace)
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: Low-dose ionizing γ-radiation elicits the extrusion of neutrophil extracellular traps
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)
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
VUMC, 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: LPreserving the immune system in radiotherapy: modelling and AI tools
Dr Charlotte Robert
Gustave Roussy, FR12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition
14.00-16.00 Session IX:
Adaptive Immunity
(Pierre-Antoine Laurent)
14.00-14.30: Manipulating the gut and tumor microbiota for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: from dream to reality
Pr Laurence Zitvogel
Gustave Roussy, FR14.30-15.00: Intratumoral BO-112 in combination with radiotherapy synergizes to achieve CD8 T-cell-mediated local tumor control
Dr Maria Esperanza Rodriguez Ruiz
Clinica Universidad de Navarra, S15.00-15.30: Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy
Pr Silvia Formenti
Weill Cornell Medicine, USA15.30-16.00: 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)
16.30-17.00: Nuclear Medicine at the era of AI and Precision Oncology
Dr Desirée Deandreis
Gustave Roussy, FR17.00-17.30: PET Imaging of PD-L1 Occupancy for Preclinical Assessment of the Efficacy of Combined Anti-PD-L1 Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy
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, STBD20.00-00.00 FACULTY DINNER