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8:00
Registration

Event/Welcome

8:45

Opening presentation / Welcome speech

Xosé Bustelo

SESSION 1: RAS signaling

CHAIR: Xosé Bustelo

9:00

SESSION 1

Mechanistic insights into resistance and therapeutic opportunities

Piro Lito

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

9:30

 

SESSION 1

A reference map of the ERK interactome

Georg Vucak

Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria

10:00

 

SESSION 1

Developing combinatorial therapies for RAS pathway driven cancers

Karen Cichowski

Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

10:30

 

SESSION 1

How SHP2 Signals to RAS

Short talk selected from abstracts

Benjamin neel

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA

10:45 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2: Unveiling RAS biology

CHAIR: Matthias Drosten

11:15

SESSION 2

Resistance mechanisms to RAS inhibitor treatment in pancreatic cancer

Christine Sers

Charité, Berlin, Germany

11:45
 

SESSION 2

KRAS mutant isoform-specific vulnerabilities in non-small-cell lung cancer

Angeliki Malliri

Division of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

12:15
 

SESSION 2

Genetic Drivers of Sensitivity or Resistance to RAS(ON) Multi-Selective Inhibitors in NRAS-Driven Melanoma

MARTIN McMAHON

Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

12:45

SESSION 2

KRAS blockade elicits a DNA damage repair deficiency exploitable with PARP inhibitors.

Short talk selected from abstracts

Gabriela Novoa 

CIMA

13:00 – 15:00

LUNCH & POSTER SESSION

SESSION 3: Decoding RAS-Driven tumours

CHAIR: Esther Castellano

15:00

SESSION 3

Oncogenic RAS activity is associated with immune priming in lung adenocarcinoma

Sophie de Carné

Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

15:30

 

SESSION 3

Targeting RAS in pancreatic cancer

Andy Aguirre

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

16:00

 

SESSION 3

Mechanisms of tissue tropism for oncogenic K-RAS

Kevin Haigis

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

16:30

SESSION 3

Isoform-specific regulation of KRAS signaling and lysosomal function by RAP1GDS1-607 in lung adenocarcinoma.

Short talk selected from abstracts

Marta román

University of California, San Francisco, USA

16:45 – 17:15

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4: Building a Collaborative
European Strategy on RAS (Round table)

17:15 – 18:00
 

SESSION 4

Round table

Moderator – Javier Carmona

VHIO, Barcelona, Spain

René Bernards

NKI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alberto Bardelli

Scientific Director, IFOM, The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano, Italy

Chiara Ambrogio

University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Silve Vicent

CIMA, Pamplona, Spain

Dwight Nissley

 Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (NIH), Frederick, USA

Andy Aguirre

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

END OF DAY 1

SESSION 5: RAS therapies (Clinical perspective)

CHAIR: Colin Lindsay

9:00

SESSION 5

TBD

Jayesh Desai

PETER MAcCALLUM CANCER CENTRE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

9:25

SESSION 5

TBD

Jarushka Naidoo

Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, Dublin, Ireland

9:50

SESSION 5

3D genomic analysis reveals frequent KRAS mutations in multifocal pancreatic precancers

Laura Wood

John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

10:15

SESSION 5

The D’s V’s and pan(K)’s: tackling KRASnonG12C driven NSCLC

Jia Luo

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

10:40

SESSION 5

RAS inhibitors combinations including Immunotherapy

Francesco Passiglia

Department of Oncology – University of Turin – San Luigi hospital , Orbassano (TO) – Italy 

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 6: Emerging treatments (Preclinical perspective)

CHAIR: David Santamaría

11:30

SESSION 6

Targeting K-Ras Using Mutant Selective Covalent Chemistry

Kevan Shokat

University of California, San Francisco, USA

12:00

SESSION 6

Targeting KRAS Using PROTAC Degraders

Kirsten Mcaulay

University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

12:30

SESSION 6

Allosteric nanobodies to study the interactions between SOS1 and RAS

Jan Steyaert

VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, VIB & Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

13:00

SESSION 6

VS-7375 (GFH375): An oral, selective KRAS G12D dual ON/OFF inhibitor with superior anti-tumor efficacy relative to ON-only KRAS inhibitors

Short talk selected from abstracts

Jonathan Pachter

Verastem Oncology, US

13:15 – 15:00

LUNCH & POSTER SESSION

SESSION 7: Treatments to come (Industry perspective)

CHAIR: Chiara Ambrogio

15:00

SESSION 7

Targeting the Oncogenic State of RAS with Tri-Complex Inhibitors

Jan Smith

Revolution medicines, USA

15:30

SESSION 7

Blocking effector binding to optimize inhibition of RAS-driven MAPK and AKT signaling in cancer

Pedro Beltrán

BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics

16:00

SESSION 7

Advancing Mutant KRAS Cancer Treatment with Rational Combinations

Carla Martins

AstraZeneca, UK

16:30

SESSION 7

Targeting KRAS and the emergence of resistance

Mark Pearson

Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany

Targeting RAS poster awards

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17:00 – 17:30

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 8: Treatments & combinations to come
(Round table)

17:30 – 18:15

SESSION 8

Round table

Moderator – Colin Lindsay

University of Manchester and the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

Ernest Nadal

Catalan Institute of Oncology, L’Hospitalet, Spain

Jia Luo

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Kevan Shokat

University of California, San Francisco, USA

Jayesh Desai

PETER MAcCALLUM CANCER CENTRE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Terri Coneran

KRAS Kickers, USA

END OF DAY 2

20:30

Place: Cvm Lavde

MEETING DINNER | Cocktail dinner

SESSION 9: Tumor microenvironment

CHAIR: Miriam Molina-Arcas

9:00

SESSION 9

Targeting the interplay between oncogenic RAS signaling and tumour immune evasion in lung cancer

Julian Downward 

Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

9:30

SESSION 9

Unmasking contextual determinants of KRAS-driven pancreatic tumorigenesis

Direna Alonso 

IRB, Barcelona, Spain

10:00

SESSION 9

From Stroma to Strategy: Uncovering Liabilities in CAF–ECM–Tumor Crosstalk in KRAS-Driven Lung Tumors

Esther Castellano 

IBMCC-CIC, Salamanca, Spain

10:30

SESSION 9

Targeting hyaluronic acid in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma uncovers novel therapeutic opportunities

Short talk selected from abstracts

Pian Sun

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), spain

10:45 – 11:15

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 10: Tumour heterogeneity: naïve & post-treatment

CHAIR: Silve Vicent

11:15

SESSION 10

The EGFR as a Master Regulator of Transcriptional and Metabolic Rewiring in RAS mutant Colorectal Cancer

Maria Sibilia 

Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

11:45

SESSION 10

Cell state transitions driving resistance to KRAS inhibition

Tuomas Tammela 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

12:15

SESSION 10

Oncogene-induced senescence and tumour initiation

 

Masashi Narita 

Cancer Research UK, Cambridge, UK

12:45

SESSION 10

RAS GTPases Degradation via LZTR1

Dhirendra Simanshu

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA

13:15

SESSION 10

Oncogenic KRAS activation induces CRC epithelial plasticity leading to therapeutic resistance in vivo

Short talk selected from abstracts

Andrew Campbell

CRUK Scotland Institute, Scotland

SESSION 11: Closing lecture

CHAIR: Silve Vicent

13:30

SESSION 11

Regulation of MAPK and PI 3′ kinase by RRAS2

FRANK McCORMICK

University of California, San Francisco, USA

END OF DAY 3

END OF THE SYMPOSIUM