Integrated Cancer Medicine Symposium: Machine Learning and AI for Hard-To-Treat Cancers: Datasets, Pipelines and Clinical Implementation
When: Tuesday 2 July and Wednesday 3 July, 09:00-16:30
Where: Downing College, Cambridge (in-person places fully booked) and online (register below to join the live-streamed event)
Setting new standards for interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerating the ethical, effective application of AI in the global fight against cancer.
The Symposium will cover the complete life cycle of AI tooling – from data collection, model creation, testing and validation, through to clinical utility and patient acceptability.
It brings together a vibrant, international community of experts and stakeholders committed to solving cancer's toughest challenges through AI.
Agenda:
09:00 – Opening Remarks
Session 1: The Patient Perspective
Session chair: Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar, University lecturer in Integrated Cancer Medicine, University of Cambridge
09:15 – Invited talk: Patient 1 – Shirley Berg, Ovarian Cancer Programme Patient Group
09:35 – Invited talk: Bissan Al-Lazikani, Director of Therapeutics Data Science and Professor, Department of Genomic Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
10:00 – Q&A Session: Both Q&A for the speakers above and a collated list of questions from the CCRH PAG and CPPG presented by Ann Russell.
Q&A Panel – Shirley, Bissan, Richard Mair, Grant Stewart
10:30 coffee
Session 2: Breakout discussions around cross-cutting themes:
11:00 – 12:00
A: Clinical trials (chair: Grant Stewart, Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Cambridge)
B: AI Techniques (chair: Nikola Simidjievski, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge)
C: Integrating multiomic datasets for prognostic and predictive benefit (chair: Richard Mair, Assistant Professor and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon, University of Cambridge)
D: Industry Collaborations (chair: Sarah Burge, Director of Clinical Integration, CRUK Cambridge Centre, University of Cambridge)
12:00 – 12:45 reconvene in plenary room and quick feedback from each group
Session 3: ICM Flash talk and posters
12:45 – 13:15 flash talks – Invited talks
13:15-14:15 — Networking lunch and Posters
Session 4: Mapping the tumour microenvironment
Session chair: Konstantinos Zormpas-Petridis, Team Leader – Computational Pathology and Spatially-Integrated omics, Gemelli, Rome
14:15 – AI in precision oncology: Integrating Pathology Genomics and Text: Jakob Kather, Professor of Clinical Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Dresden
14:40 – ICM talk: Marika Reinius, Clinical Research Fellow, CRUK Cambridge Centre, University of Cambridge
15:05 – Tomography reconstruction with classical and AI methods and the effect the reconstruction algorithms have on their clinical use: Ander Biguri, Research Associate at Cambridge Image Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
15:30 – Dynamic break
15:35 – Invited talk: Faisal Mahmood, Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor, Division of Computational Pathology, Brigham And Women’s Hospital.
16:00 – Panel discussion: Jakob, Marika, Ander, Faisal
Day 2 (3rd July)
Session 1: The macro scale: integrating radiology data
Session chair: Ines Machado, Research Associate, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge
09:15 – Invited talk: Eric Aboagye, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College, London
09:40 – ICM talk: Ramona Woitek, Professor of Radiology, Head of the Research Centre MIAAI (Medical Image Analysis and AI), Austria
10:05 – Invited talk: Javier Fernandez-Valle, Senior Director of Biomedical Imaging, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
10:30 Panel discussion: Eric, Ramona, Javier, patient rep: Carol
11:00 coffee
Session 2: Cancer biology and integration
Session chair: Florian Markowetz, Professor and Group Leader, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge
11:30 – Invited talk: Tom Mitchell, Research Group Leader, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Urologist, CUH
11:55 – ICM talk: Raza Ali, Group Leader, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge
12:20 – Invited talk: Anniina Farkkila, Assistant Professor (TT) in Translational Gynecologic Oncology, Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki
12:45 – Panel discussion: Raza, Tom, Anniina, patient rep: Frances
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
Session 3: Deploying to the clinic
Session chair: Sarah Burge, Director of Clinical Integration, CRUK Cambridge Centre, University of Cambridge
14:15 – Invited talk: Siddhartha Kar, Research Group Leader, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge
14:40 – ICM talk: Gabriel Funingana, Clinical Research Associate, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge
15:05 – Invited talk: Raj Jena, Clinical Consultant, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge
15:40 – Panel discussion: Siddhartha, Gabriel, Raj, patient rep: Barbara
16:10 Sum up and closing remarks: Professor Richard Gilbertson, Director of the CRUK Cambridge Centre
16:30 END
This project was supported with funding from the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery and Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery, made possible by a donation from Schmidt Futures.
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