4th ACTC | Advances in Circulating Tumor Cells | Liquid Biopsy: Latest Advances and Future Challenges

International Scientific Committee

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

(in alphabetical order)

  • Catherine Alix-Panabières. PhD, Laboratoire Cellules Circulantes Rares Humaines – LCCRH, Institut de Recherche en Biothérapie – IRB , Hôpital Saint-Eloi – CHRU Montpellier, France.
  • Massimo Cristofanilli. MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of Translational Research and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Richard J. Cote. MD, FRCPath, FCAP, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Pathologist-in-Chief, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washinghton University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
  • Caroline Dive. PhD, Professor, Deputy Director Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Senior Group Leader Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology, The University of Manchester, UK.
  • Dave Hoon. PhD, Director, Department of Molecular Oncology, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
  • Michael Ignatiadis. MD PhD, Assistant Professor, Jules Bordet Institute Brussels, Belgium.
  • Sabine Kasimir Bauer. PhD, Professor, Head of Laboratory, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital of Essen, Germany.
  • Evi Lianidou. PhD, Professor of Analytical Chemistry – Clinical Chemistry, Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells lab, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece.
  • Klaus Pantel. MD, PhD, Professor, Director, Institute of Tumour Biology, Centre of Experimental Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Jean Yves Pierga. MD, PhD, Professor of Medical Oncology at the Institute Curie and University Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
  • Howard Scher. MD, Medical Oncologist, Co-Chair, Center for Mechanism Based Therapy; Head of the Biomarker Development Initiative; D. Wayne Calloway Chair in Urologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research, New York, NY, USA.
  • Michael Speicher. MD, PhD, Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Graz, Austria.
  • Nikolas Stoecklein. MD, Professor, Experimental Surgical Oncology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Leon Terstappen. PhD, Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, MIRA Research Institute, Department of Medical Cell BioPhysics, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
  • Jean Paul Thiery. PhD, Professor, Research Director Comprehensive Cancer Center Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.

4th ACTC | Advances in Circulating Tumor Cells | Liquid Biopsy: Latest Advances and Future Challenges