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

 

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Our Events Schedule Plan

  • 17Sept. 2025

    Microphone 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, USA
     
    12.00-13.00 – LUNCH and LEARN
    Johnson & Johnson industrial session
     
    13.00-13.30 Coffee break and exhibition
     

    Microphone 11.10-13.30 pm: OPENING

    Welcome and introduction

    PRIMER ON RADIATIONS, CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY

    Microphone 13.30-15.30 Session I:

    Cancer immunology and Immunotherapy

    (Oliver Kepp)

    Microphone 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, UK

    Microphone 14.00-14.30: Custom scoring based on ecological topology of gut microbiota associated with cancer immunotherapy outcome
    Dr Lisa Derosa
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 14.30-15.00: Neuroendocrine control of tumor immunosurveillance
    Pr Guido Kroemer
    Cordeliers Research Center, FR

    Microphone 15.00-15.30: Impact of the mitochondrial hub on the cytotoxicity and immunogenicity of radiation therapy
    Dr Lorenzo Galluzzi 
    Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA

    15.30-16.00: Coffee break and exhibition


    Microphone 16.00-18.00 Session II:

    Radiation dose, modalities and resistance

     (François de Kermengy)

    Microphone 16.00-16.30: Charged particles radiotherapy
    Pr Marco Durante
    GSI, G

    Microphone 16.30-17.00: Heterogeneous intratumor irradiation: a new partner for immunotherapy
    Dr Michele Mondini
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 17.00-17.30: Next generation approaches in radiotherapy
    Pr Amir Abdollahi
    NCT Heidelberg, G

    Microphone 17.30-18.00: Fatty acid metabolism and radiation-induced anti-tumor immunity
    Dr Claire Vanpouille-Box
    Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

    Microphone 18.00-20.00

    Cocktail poster session and exhibition

     
     
  • 18Sept. 2025

    MAIN PROGRAM

    Microphone 8.30-10.00 Session III:

    Myeloid cells

    (Paul Bergeron)

    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 Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, G

    12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition


    Microphone 14.00-16.00 Session V:

    DNA damage

    (Marco Moreira)

    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: Micronuclei induced by radiation, replication stress, or chromosome segregation errors do not activate cGAS-STING
    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)

    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: Low-dose ionizing γ-radiation elicits the extrusion of neutrophil extracellular traps
    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)

    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
    VUMC, 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:  LPreserving the immune system in radiotherapy: modelling and AI tools
    Dr Charlotte Robert
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    12.30-14.00 Lunch break and exhibition

    Microphone 14.00-16.00 Session IX:

    Adaptive Immunity

     (Pierre-Antoine Laurent)


    Microphone 14.00-14.30: Manipulating the gut and tumor microbiota for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: from dream to reality
    Pr Laurence Zitvogel
    Gustave Roussy, FR

    Microphone 14.30-15.00: 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, S

    Microphone 15.00-15.30: Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy
    Pr Silvia Formenti
    Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

    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)


    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: 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, 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

    20.00-00.00 FACULTY DINNER