Program:

• 09.00-09.30 Welcome
• 09.30 Maurizio Colecchia – Fondazione IRCCS, National Institute of Oncology, Milan (IT) ‘Advances in diagnosis of prostate cancer’
• 10.05 Discussion
• 10.15 Giuseppina Carbone – Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona (CH) ‘ETS transcription factors in prostate cancer progression’
• 10.50 Discussion
• 11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.20 SIBBM presentation: Tiziana Bonaldi, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan (IT)
• 11.25 SIBBM Lecture: Alvaro Aytes - Institut Català d'Oncologia, Barcelona (E) ‘Epigenetics and transcriptional regulation in CRPC’
• 12.05 Discussion
• 12.15 Carlo Catapano – Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Bellinzona (CH) ‘Epigenetic and mitochondrial plasticity in prostate cancer stem cells’
• 12.50 Discussion
• 13.00-14.15 Lunch break
• 14.20 Paola Chiarugi - Dept. of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences Biochemistry, Human Health Medical School, University of Florence (IT) ‘Mitochondria at the crossroad: metabolic symbiosis within cancer microenvironment’
• 14.55 Discussion
• 15.05 Andrea Lunardi – Centre for integrative biology (CIBIO), University of Trento (IT) ‘Prostate organoids unravel critical pathways for tissue homeostasis and tumorigenesis’
• 15.40 Discussion
• 15.50 16.25 Discussion
• 16.35 Antonino Bruno – IRCSS MultiMedica, Scientific and Technological Pole, Milano (IT) ‘Tumor associated Natural Killer cells in prostate cancer progression and angiogenesis’
• 17.10 Discussion
• 17.20 Closing words by the hosts