Eva Villalba, MBA, MSc

Catalina Lopez-Correa, MD, PhD

Christoph Borchers, PhD

Saman Maleki, PhD

Yasser Riazalhosseini, PhD

Ramy Saleh, MD, MSc

Kim Ma, MD

Adriana Aguliar, PhD

Trevor Pugh, PhD

Yue Li, PhD

Anne Martel, PhD

Denis Claude Roy, MD

Francois Therriault-Proulx, PhD

CTR Horizons

McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer

Join CTR Horizons 2025 to explore advances in translational cancer research through talks, panels, and networking.

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Agenda

Registration 

OPENING REMARKS

Talk 1:
Eva Villalba, MBA, MSc. Executive Director, Quebec Cancer Coalition

Talk 2:
Catalina Lopez-Correa, PhD. Chief Global Strategy Officer at Genome Canada

Talk 3:
Student - TBD

PANEL DISCUSSION 1- THE VOICE OF THE PATIENT

COFFEE BREAK

Talk 1:
Christoph Borchers, PhD. Director of Segal Cancer Proteomics Centre and Full Professor at the Department of Oncology, McGill University

Talk 2:
Saman Maleki, PhD. Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology, Western University

Talk 3:
Edmond Rafiee, MD.  Clinician-scientist Fellow at the CHUM Microbiome Centre, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM).      

Talk 4: Pegah Rahimizadeh, Student


PANEL DISCUSSION 2 - BEYOND GENOMICS: THE ADVANCES OF MOLECULAR PROFILING 

NETWORKING COCKTAIL AND POSTER EXHIBITION

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

Talk 1:
Yasser Riazalhosseini, PhD. Head of the Cancer Genomics program at the McGill University Genome Centre; Associate Professor at the Department of Human Genetics, McGill University

Talk 2:
Kim Ma, MD. Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, McGill University

Talk 3:
Ramy Saleh, MD, MSc. Assistant Professor at the Department of Oncology, McGill University

Talk 4:
Anantpreet Kaur Sood, Student


 PANEL DISCUSSION 3 - D2R: SHOWCASING RNA THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS

COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST & COFFEE BREAK

Talk 1:
Adriana Aguliar, PhD. Scientific Director of the Cancer Genomics and Translational Research Laboratory

Talk 2:
Trevor Pugh, PhD. Director of Genomics Program & Senior Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Professor at Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

Talk 3:
Migmar Tsamchoe, Student 


 PANEL DISCUSSION 4 - ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS IN LIQUID BIOPSIES

LUNCH BREAK

 POSTER EXHIBITION AND EVALUATION

Talk 1:
Yue Li, PhD, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, McGill University
Talk 2: 
Anne Martel, PhD, Senior Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute; Professor at the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Talk 3:
Joshua Ron Onichino, Student 


PANEL DISCUSSION 5 - AI IN CANCER PREDICTION AND TREATMENT

Talk 1:
Denis Claude Roy, MD. Chief Sientific Officer of the C3i Centre; Chief Executive Officer at CellCAN, and Full Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal

Talk 2:
Francois Therriault-Proulx, PhD, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at MedScint

Talk 3:
Student - TBD

PANEL DISCUSSION 6 - TRANSLATING DISCOVERIES INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE

CLOSING REMARKS

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