Information till studenter och medarbetare med anledning av covid-19 (Uppdaterad: 15 april 2021)
The Swedish Tumor Microenvironment (STorM) Program and the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) invites you to the Swedish Tumor Microenvironment Meeting 2019. New discoveries and advances made in the field of tumor microenvironment (TME) research will be presented. The meeting will focus on the heterogeneity and the different roles of the microenvironment in cancer. Many aspects of the microenvironment will be discussed, including cancer-associated fibroblasts, the extracellular matrix, nerves, the immune compartment, and vasculature, with internationally recognized experts in their respective field invited to give plenary talks. In addition, ongoing TME research in Sweden will be presented through posters and short talks selected from submitted abstracts.
Scientists (clinicians and basic scientists) with an interested in the tumor microenvironment. PhD-students and post-docs are especially encouraged to attend.
Organizing committe: Taija Mäkinen, Uppsala University, Kristian Pietras, Lund University, Daniel Öhlund, Umeå University and Arne Östman, Karolinska Institutet.
The meeting is sponsored by:
The Swedish Cancer Society
The Swedish Research Council
The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
Cancer Academy North
Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou, The Institut Curie, France
Louis Vermeulen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Leore Geller, (Ravid Straussman's lab), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Claire Magnon, Institute of cellular and Molecular Radiation Biology, France
Sandy McAllister, Harvard Medical School, USA
Thomas Blankenstein, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Hellmut Augustin, The German Cancer Research Center
Je H. Lee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Representatives from SciLifeLab
Elias Kouchakji, Fibrogen, USA
Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute, UK