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3rd ICGA CONFERENCE

Biobanking to Omics: Collecting the Global Experience

13th – 14th January 2022

About 3rd ICGA Conference

3rd ICGA CONFERENCE

Poster Session Tracks

Track 1: Biobanking and Cancer Tissue Repositories
Track 2: Omics and Data Analysis in Cancer Biology

13th – 14th January 2022

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Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) was established in 1972 by order of the President as an Autonomous Body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOH&FW). The objectives, rules & regulations of the Council were formulated by resolution of the MOH & FW in 1974 & 1976.

As per the resolution of the Government, BMRC is the focal point for Health Research. The objectives of BMRC are to identify problems and issues relating to medical and health sciences and to determine priority areas in research on the basis of health care needs, goals, policies and objectives.

BMRC/BNMRC have taken the initiative to launch a Bangladesh Cancer Genome Project (BCGP) for multi-omics profiling of common cancers in the Bangladesh Population. The BCGP has established strong ties with the Indian Cancer Genome Atlas ( ICGA) project which was launched in 2020. Both projects have common goals and will have a significant impact on Personalised Cancer Management in local populations in the next decade

3rd ICGA Conference

We at Centre for Translational Cancer Research (CTCR) invite you all to the 3rd ICGA Conference ‘Biobanking to Omics: Collecting the Global Experience’ to be held on 13th and 14th January 2022. The aim of the conference is to bring together global experts who have successfully built comprehensive datasets to understand genetic and molecular profiles of cancer. As ICGA begins the profiling activities of cancer in India, the global experience will set a benchmark and be a guide towards excellence. We invite all of you to attend the virtual conference and join hands with this collective initiative of ICGA to profile cancers in India.

ICGA membership appeal

We take this opportunity to urge all the clinicians, hospitals, cancer researchers and affiliate institutes to join the ICGA efforts to ensure a good representation of cancer patients across India to be able to reach an unbiased and comprehensive understanding of molecular nature of cancer in India.

Call for posters

The 3rd ICGA conference invites you to send a poster of your research in the area of the conference theme : ‘Biobanking to Omics: Collecting the Global Experience’. This will be an opportunity for young researchers to showcase their work in front of leaders of the field. Posters will be judged by a panel of experts. Know More

Provisional Program

Day 1: Thursday, Jan 13th 2022
Pre-inauguration 17:00 hrs – 18:00 hrs IST
Session Starts (USA EST: 6:30 hrs, UK: 12:30 hrs, Europe: 13:30 hrs, Qatar: 14:30 hrs, China: 19:30 hrs)
Session Time Slot Topic Speaker(s) Chairs
Cancer Research in India 17:00 hrs – 18:00 hrs 17:00 hrs – 17:20 hrs Breast Cancer – TNBC primary/met transcriptomics Dr. Nilesh Gardi, Graduate Scholar, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer – Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC-TMC), India Dr. Kundan Sengupta, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Pune (IISER Pune), India
17:20 hrs – 17:40 hrs Cancer Epigenetics: New Mechanism and New Therapy For Ovarian Cancer Dr. Ashok Sharma, Associate Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, India
17:40 hrs – 17:50 hrs Session Q & A / Discussion
Inauguration 17:50 hrs – 22:00 hrs IST
Session Start: (USA EST: 7:30 hrs, UK: 13:30 hrs, Europe: 14:30 hrs, Qatar: 15:30 hrs, China: 20:30 hrs)
Conference Inauguration 17:50 hrs -18:15 hrs 17:50 hrs – 18:00 hrs Welcome Remarks and Introductions Dr. C.B Koppiker, Medical Director, Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, Centre for Translational Cancer Research (PCCM-CTCR), India , Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA
18:00 hrs – 18:10 hrs ICGA update 2021 (Current Status, Mission and Vision) Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder and Chairman, Persistent Systems, India and Board Member ICGA, India
18:10 hrs – 18:20 hrs Chief Guest,3rd ICGA Conference Inaugural Remarks Prof. Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary of DBT, India Mr. Ashutosh Kothari, Lead, Breast Surgery, Guys and St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK and Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network
ICGA: Present and Future 18:15 hrs – 20:30 hrsEach Talk is for 20 mins followed by 10 min Q&A 18:20 hrs – 18:50 hrs ICGA Multiomics: Potential Impact on Adapted NCCN Guidelines for the Indian Sub-continent. Dr. Wui-Jin Koh, Senior Vice President, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), USA
18:50 hrs – 19:20 hrs Drivers and dynamics of breast cancer progression Dr. Christina Curtis, Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
19:20 hrs – 19:50 hrs Molecular subtypes and mechanistic underpinnings of prostate cancer Dr. Bushra Ateeq, Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur.
Senior Fellow, DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance
19:50hrs – 20:20hrs Cellular and Molecuar Profiling of Breast cancer from an Indian Cohort Dr. Madhura Kulkarni, Senior Scientist and DBT Ramalingaswami Fellow.
Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, Centre for Translational Cancer Research (PCCM CTCR), and IISER Pune, India
20:20 hrs – 20:30 hrs Coffee break
Panel Discussion
Session Time Slot Topic Panellists Moderator
Panel Discussion 20:30 hrs – 21:30 hrs Panel Discussion21:30 hrs – 21:50 hrs Open for Q&A to audience 20:30 hrs -21:50 hrs ICGA updates and Future Steps
  • Dr. C.B. Koppiker, Medical Director, Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, Centre for Translational Cancer Research (PCCM-CTCR), India , Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA
  • Prof. Chintamani, Consultant & Head (formerly), Department of Surgery, Safdarjung Hospital, India , Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA.
  • Prof. Sunil Badve, Vice Chair, Pathology Cancer Programs, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology Emory University School of Medicine, USA and Board Member ICGA.
  • Prof. Sudeep Gupta, Director, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer – Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC-TMC), India
  • Prof. Shantanu Chowdhury, Senior Fellow | Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
  • Dr. Abu Shadat M. Noman, Visiting Faculty at McGill University, Canada and Eukaryotic Gene Expression and Function (EuGEF) Research Group, Bangladesh
  • Dr J.C. Zenklusen, Director, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), USA
 Prof. L.S. Shashidhara, Dean of Research and Professor of Biology Ashoka University and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Pune (IISER Pune), India
Poster Session All day, Both days Track 1: Biobanking in Cancer Tissue Repositories Poster session will be hosted on the conference website on both days
Track 2: Omics and Data Analysis in Cancer Biology
Day 2: Friday, Jan 14th 2022
Session Start: (USA EST: 6:30 hrs, UK: 12:30 hrs, Europe: 13:30 hrs, Qatar: 14:30 hrs, China: 19:30 hrs)
Session Time Slot Topic Speaker(s) Chairs
Invited Talk 16:30 hrs – 16:50 Funding opportunities and DBT- India Alliance Program Prof. Jyotsna Dhawan, Interim CEO, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
Biobanking- Global Perspective 17:00 hrs – 19:00 hrs 17:00 hrs – 17:20 hrs Counselling and Patient Consent for biobank focused sample collection Dr. Rosina Ahmed, Consultant Breast Surgeon, Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Kolkata, India Nagaraj Balasubramanian, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India
17:20 hrs – 17:40 hrs Insights into UK 100k Project Dr. Anjana Kulkarni, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK
17:40 hrs – 18:00 hrs Biobanking and Quality Control in Indian Setting Dr. Pallavi Kshetrapal, Assistant Professor, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), India
18:00 hrs – 18:20 hrs Cancer registries In India- the challenges & future Prof. Chintamani, Consultant & Head (formerly), Department of Surgery, Safdarjung Hospital, India , Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network and Board Member ICGA.
18:20 hrs – 18:40 hrs Strategy and support for tissueresources Ms. Rosita Kammler, Head, Translational Research Coordination, International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG), Switzerland
18:40 hrs – 19:00 hrs Session Q & A / Discussion
Clinical Big Data -Management and analysis 19:00 hrs – 20:00 hrs 19:00 hrs – 19:20 hrs Triage of Breast Cancer : Using Mammograms and Machine Learning Prof. Subhashis Banerjee, Head of the Department, Computer Science Professor of Computer Science Ashoka University Dr. Kavishwar Wagholikar, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA.
19:20 hrs – 19:40 hrs Big Data Management and Policy Prof. Dr. Md. Ruhul Amin, Director, Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
19:40 hrs – 19:50 hrs Session Q & A / Discussion
19:50 hrs – 20:00 hrs Coffee Break
Panel Discussion
Session Time Topic Panellists Moderator
Panel Discussion 20:00 hrs – 21:00 hrs Panel Discussion21:00 hrs – 21:20 hrs Open for Q&A to audience 20:00 hrs -21:20 hrs Tumour tissue biobanking – national and international perspective
  • Dr. Lokesh Agrawal, Program Director, Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch (BBRB), Cancer Diagnosis Program Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
  • Prof. S. Mahalingam, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
  • Prof. Rajesh Dikshit, Director, Centre for Cancer Epidemiology, Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer-Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC-TMC), India
  • Dr. Juhi Tayal, Consultant Research & Coordinator Bio-repository, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre (RGCIRC), India
  • Dr. Birendra Yadav, Biobank Manager, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), India
  • Dr. Aruna Korlimarla, Principal Scientist, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Center, India
  • Dr. Jugnu Jain, Co-Founder and CEO, Sapien Biosciences
 Dr. Devaki Kelkar, Senior Scientist, Center for Translational Cancer Research, Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Pune, India
Closing Remark 21:20 hrs – 21:30 hrs Closing Remarks for 3rd ICGA Conference Dr. C.B Koppiker, Board Member ICGA , Medical Director, Prashanti Cancer Care Mission Centre for Translational Cancer Research (PCCM CTCR) and Co-Founder, BreastGlobal Network
Poster Session All day, Both days Track 1: Biobanking in Cancer Tissue Repositories Poster session will be hosted on the conference website on both days
Track 2: Omics and Data Analysis in Cancer Biology