DAY 1

Friday
03 February 2023

9:00-10:00
10:00-10:30
Genesis of WCTCRI
Prof. Anil Suri
Centre for Cancer Immunotherapy (CCI)
Sri Ram Cancer & Superspeciality Center (SRCC)
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital Jaipur, India
Welcome address on behalf of MGUMST
Dr. Sudhir Sachdev
President/ Vice Chancellor
Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology, Jaipur, India
Address by Chairperson
Dr. Vikas C. Swarankar
Chairperson/Chancellor
Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology Jaipur, India
Address by Guest of Honour
Prof. Robert Clarke
The Executive Director,
The Hormel Institute, Austin, USA
Need for Translational Cancer Research and Immunotherapy
Address by distinguished Chief guest
Dr. M. L. Swarankar
Emeritus Chairperson, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology Jaipur, India
Thanks Giving
Prof. Anil Suri
Centre for Cancer Immunotherapy (CCI)
Sri Ram Cancer & Superspeciality Center (SRCC)
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Hospital Jaipur, India

DAY 1

Friday
03 February 2023

Plenary Lecture Speaker
10:30-11:15
Prof. Robert Clarke
The Hormel Institute, Austin, USA "A framework for exploring endocrine resistance in breast cancer"
Session-I
11:30-13:00
Identification and Validation of New Molecular Targets
Chair Persons
Prof. Sangeeta Sharma
Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, India
Prof. Rupinder Kanwar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Bhopal, India
Speaker
11:30-12:00
Prof. V. K. Kapoor
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, India
“What do the clinicians expect from the lab for gallbladder cancer?”

DAY 1

Friday
03 February 2023

Chair Persons  12:00-12:30
Prof. Munish Kakkar
MGMCH, Jaipur,India
Prof. Raeis Quadri
University of Kashmir, India
Speaker
12:00-12:30
Dr. Mayank Singh
All India Institute of medical Sciences, New Delhi, India “Deciphering the role of Deubiquitinates enzymes in cancer progression and drug resistance”
Chair Persons
Prof. Swati Garg
MGMCH, Jaipur India
Prof. Puneet Rijhwani
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Anand Nagar
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Speaker
12:30-12:45
Dr. Rahul Singh
Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida, India
“Investigating into Factors leading to delay in Diagnosis of Oral Cancer in India”
Speaker
12:45-13:00
Dr. Debasree Dutta
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram
“Histone epigenetic players as biomarkers of breast cancer”
Display of Posters
13:00-14:00

DAY 1

Friday
03 February 2023

Session II
14:00-15:30
Chair Persons
14:00-15:30
Prof. Robert Clarke
The Hormel Institute, Austin, USA
Prof. T C. Sadhasukhi
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Prof. JB. Sharma
AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Speaker
14:00-14:30
Prof. G.K. Rath
Former Head NCI-AIIMS, Jhajjar, Indiaa
“New frontiers in cancer research”
Speaker
14:30: 15:00
Prof. Anil Suri
Centre for Cancer immunotherapy, MGMCH, Jaipur
“New frontiers in cell-based immunotherapy of cancer”
Speaker
15:00: 15:30
Prof. Rupinder K Kanwar
All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Bhopal, India
“Lactoferrin: biodrug with a unique potential in translational cancer research”

DAY 1

Friday
03 February 2023

Chair Persons
15:30-16:00
Dr. Ajay Yadav
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Anil Kumar
NII, New Delhi, India
Speaker
15:30: 16:00
Prof. Subhradip Karamkar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
“3D tumor spheroids as in vitro preclinical models for studying tumor microenvironment and drug screening in advanced gallbladder cancer”
Chair Persons
16:00-16:30
Prof. Hemant Malhotra
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Ashok Sharma
AIIMS, New Delhi India
Speaker
16:00- 16:15
Dr. Deepak Kumar Das
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India
“Use of Immunotherapy in management of Advance Stage Cancers: A single Institutional experience”
Speaker
16:15-16:30
Dr. Neha Sethi
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India
“Immunophenotypic evaluation of mismatched repair proteins in various solid tumors in a tertiary care centre”

DAY 1

Friday
03 February 2023

Chair Persons 
16:30-17:15
Dr. Shikha Dhal
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Debraj Singh Thoudam
AIIMS, New Delhi India
Speaker
16:30-16:40
Dr. Kirti Amresh Gautam
GD Goenka University, Gurugram, Haryana, India
“Angiogenic markers: Possible approach to differentiate Prostate cancer and benign prostatitis hyperplasia (BPH)”
Speaker
16:40-16:50
Dr. Asif Amin
University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
“Quantitative secretome analysis Unravels Secretory Proteins that Mediate Tumor cell- Monocyte Interactions in Lung Cancer Microenvironment”
Speaker
16:50-17:00
Dr. Vitusha Suri
VMMC & Safdurjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
“Immunotherapy in ovarian cancer”
February 4th - World Cancer Day

DAY 2

Saturday
04 February 2023

Plenary Lecture
09:30 -10:15
Prof. Junji Matsui
Eisai US, Cambridge, USA
“Effects of angiogenesis inhibitors, lenvatinib on tumor immune microenvironment”
Chair Persons
10:15-11:15
Prof. J. B. Sharma
AIIMS, New Delhi
Prof. Anita Chopra
AIIMS, New Delhi
Prof. Aparna Garg
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Speaker
10:15-10:45
Prof. Gopal Kundu
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India
“Osteopontin in Tumor Microenvironment: A New Paradigm in Cancer Therapy”
Speaker
10:45-11:15
Dr. Debraj Singh Thoudam
AIIMS, New Delhi, India
“Estrogen-Related Receptor (ERRγ) as a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for various cancers (Thyroid cancer, colorectal cancer and ovarian cancer)”

DAY 2

Saturday
04 February 2023

Chair Persons
11:15-12:45
Prof. Dilip Parida
AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India
Prof. Junji Matsui
Eisai US, Cambridge, USA
Dr. Vinay Kumar Mahala
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Speaker
11:15: 11:45
Prof. J. B. Sharma
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, India
“Abdominopelvic pelvis tuberculosis masquerading as ovarian cancer: lessons learnt”
Speaker
11:45: 12:15
Dr.  Abhishek Shankar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, India
“Operations management challenges in cancer care delivery in India”
Speaker
12:15 – 12:45
Dr. Ashok Sharma
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
“POTE Antigen family: A novel vaccine therapy candidate for advanced human epithelial ovarian cancer”
Poster Session for evaluation
12:45-13:30

DAY 2

Saturday
04 February 2023

Chair Persons
14:00-14:30
Dr. Nitin Khunteta
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Prof. Lalit Mohan Sharma
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Surender Kumar Saini
AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Speaker
14:00-14:15
Prof. Mahitosh Mandal
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
“Multi-nucleated cells use ROS to induce breast cancer chemoresistance in-vitro and in-vivo”
Speaker
14:15-14:30
Dr. Anil Kumar
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
“Metabolic and genotoxic effect of gut microbiota-derived trimethylamine (TMA) on colon cells”
Chair Persons
14:30-15:00
Dr. Sumit Goyal
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Shweta Sharma
MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Speaker
14:30-14:40
Dr. Ankit Mathur
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR), Delhi, India
“The Wnt axix switch in the induction of terminal differentiation in leukemic blast cells by a natural compound: Esculetin”

DAY 2

Saturday
04 February 2023

Speaker
14:40-14:50
Ms. Nishu Dalal
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
“Development of sensor for indoxyl sulfate (IS) and its implication in cancer diagnosis”
Speaker
14:50-15:00
Ms. Nusrat Nabi
University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
“FAK and CDK16: novel mitotic kinases involved in mitotic progression and promotion of drug resistance in cancer”
Chair Persons
Dr. Neha Sethi
MGMCH, Jaipur
Dr. Debasree Dutta
RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Speaker
15:00-15:15
Dr. Vini Ravindran
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
“27-hydroxycholesterol and its influence on epigenetic marks in breast cancer”
Speaker
15:15-15:30
Dr. Pallavi Agarwal
Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine & Stem Cell Research, Noida, India
“UTX: The New epigenetic target for treating platinum drug resistant ovarian cancer”

DAY 2

Saturday
04 February 2023

Interactive Session
15:30: 17:00
Theme-I
"Gut Microbiome Presents New Frontiers in Cancer Immunotherapy"

Coordinator: Dr Anil Kumar, NII, New Delhi, India:
Prof. Jane Houldsworth, Mount Saini, USA
Prof. Sangeeta Sharma, KSC Hospital, New Delhi, India
Dr. Rupinder Kaur Kanwar, AIIMS, Bhopal, India
Dr. Surendra Kumar Saini, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Dr. Munish Kakkar, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Prof. Swati Garg, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Ms. Misbah un Nisa, University of Kashmir, India
Ms. Neetu Rawal, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Theme-II
“How can knowing the mutations that cause a patient's cancer shape treatment?”

Coordinator: Dr. Mayank Singh, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Prof. Junji Matsui, Eisai, USA
Dr. Neha Sethi, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Rahul Singh, GIMS, Noida, India
Prof. Puneet Rijhwani, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Anand Nagar, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Payal Gulati, JNU, New Delhi, India
Ms. Laxmi Kumari, PGI, Chandigarh, India
Dr. Bimal P Jit, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

DAY 2

Saturday
04 February 2023

Theme-III
“Can we reduce different cancers to a set of common traits?”

Coordinator: Prof. Gopal Kundu, KIT, Bhubaneswar, India
Prof. Raies Qadri, University of Kashmir, India
Prof. J. B. Sharma, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Prof. Aparna Garg, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Ajay Yadav, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr Shikha Dhall, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Damini Verma, JNU, New Delhi, India
Ms. Faizah Farooq, University of Kashmir, India
Theme-IV
“Will immunotherapy be a turning point in the fight against cancer?”

Coordinator: Dr. Abhishek Shankar, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Dr. Dilip Kumar Parida, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India
Dr Nitin Khunteta, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Vinay Kumar Mahala, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. SK Soel Ahmed, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India
Dr. Anita Chopra, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Ms. Shivalika Sharma, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Ms. Deepinder Kaur, PGI, Chandigarh, India
Mr. Biswadeep Ghosh Roy, IISc, Bangalore, India
Theme-V
“Does epigenetics play a role in cancer?”

Coordinator: Dr. Debasree Dutta, RGCB, India
Prof. Lalit Mohan Sharma, MGMCH, Jaipur,India
Dr. Vini Ravindran, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Dr. Pallavi Agarwal, Amity University, Noida, India
Dr. Ankit Mathur, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Dr. Sumit Goyal, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Dr. Shweta Sharma, MGMCH, Jaipur, India
Ms. Nidhi Shukla, BISR, Jaipur, India
Mr. Ankit Kumar Tiwari, JNU, New Delhi, India
Theme-VI
“Are mouse models still relevant to study human cancers?”

Coordinator: Prof. Subhradip Karamkar, AIIMS, India
Dr. Jagat R Kanwar, AIIMS, Bhopal, India
Dr. Ashok Sharma, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Ms. Nusrat Nabi, University of Kashmir, India
Dr. Deepak Kumar Das, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India
Ms. Chanchal Bareja, University of Delhi, India
Dr. A Muraleedharan, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India
Mr. Abhibrato Karmakar, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Mr. Ravindra Meena, JNU, New Delhi, India
Theme -VII
“Can differences in cancer cell metabolism be exploited?”

Coordinator: Dr. Debraj Singh Thoudam, AIIMS, India
Prof. Jagat Kanwar, AIIMS, Bhopal, India
Prof. Madhuri Lonikar, IIMSR, Aurangabad, India
Dr. Mahitosh Mandal, IIT, Kharagpur, India
Dr. Kirti Amresh Gautam, GD Goenka Uni. India
Dr. Asif Amin, University of Kashmir, India
Dr. Sajib Sarkar, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Dr. Pradeep Kumar, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Ms. Rashmi Gupta, PGI, Chandigarh, India
February 5th, Gallbladder Cancer
Awareness Month

DAY 3

Sunday
05 February 2023

Plenary Lecture
9:30 -10:15
Prof. Jane Houldsworth
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
“Current and future immuno-oncology diagnostics in the clinical laboratory”
Session VI
10:15-11:15
Chair Persons:
Prof. Rupinder Kanwar
AIIMS, Bhopal, India
Prof. J.B. Sharma
AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Speaker
10:15-10:45
Prof. Hemant Malhotra
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, India
“Is low dose check-point inhibitors the way forward to reduce cost and improve access in low -middle income countries?”
Speaker
10:45-11:15
Prof. Jagat R Kanwar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, India
Speaker
11:15-11:45
Prof. Madhuri Lonikar
Indian Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Aurangabad, India
“Cancer surgery: What is the anesthesia prospective?”
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