Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) • Oncology

Clinical aspects of multiple sclerosis (including treatment approaches), the animal models for MS, pathology of MS, theoretical concepts of MS

Lectures included: conventional tumor therapy, head & neck cancer, stem cell therapy, gastrointestinal tumor therapy, principles of drug resistance, glioma therapy, RNA-based therapy & exosome targeting, preclinical drug development, fine-tuning cancer therapy (case: breast cancer), pharmacokinetics, radiation & molecular-targeted agents

Lectures included: signal transduction as target of therapy, radiation oncology, pediatric cancer therapy, surgery & prostate cancer, targeted therapy for NSCLC, antibody-based therapy, epigenetic therapy

Lectures included: cancer histopathology, lab techniques in cancer research, mass spectrometry & proteomics, CRC biomarkers, cancer epidemiology, tumor profiling & biomarkers (case: hemato-oncology), NGS for personalized cancer treatment, prostate cancer profiling, microbiome & cancer

Lectures included: bioinformatics, genomic data analysis (class discovery), tumor metabolism, tumor-stroma interaction, tumor angiogenesis & hypoxia, glioma & angiogenesis, CT colonography, cancer dissemination, circulating tumor cells, MRD detection (hematological malignancy), liquid biopsy,

Lectures included: second malignancy risk (case: HL & testicular cancer), intraoperative imaging, molecular imaging, ctDNA & liquid biopsy, cervical cancer prevention, CRC screening, ethical issues in molecular genetics

Lectures included: basic tumor immunology, cross-priming & cross-presentation, cross-talk between DC & macrophage in cancer, glycan alterations in immune escape mechanism, tumor & inflammation, MDSC/myeloid-derived suppressive cells, recombinant viral vector as cancer vaccine, tumor-immune cells interaction (case: CRC), transcriptional immune profiling

Lectures included: immune escape mechanism, PD-1/PD-L1 interference, TLR-directed therapy, DC immunotherapy, checkpoint inhibition, DNA & RNA tumor vaccine, NKT cells & gamma delta T cells, immunoscore

Lectures included: single cell technology, NK-cell based therapy, T-cell checkpoint interference, CAR-T cell therapy, monoclonal antibodies & bispecific antibodies, angiogenesis & immune system, myelodysplastic syndrome & DC-based therapy, DC vaccines for AML, macrophage's role in tumor microenvironment