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