Name: The pain inside your brain
Start: 2018-05-16T
End: 2018-05-16T
Location: O'Reilly's

During this event, you will learn everything about gliomas, one of the most common type of brain tumours. Unveiling the secrets of how it stars and spread inside the brain brings us to develop innovative therapies to treat it efficiently. In between the presentations, we will invite you to participate to a hands-on demonstration about the common tools used in molecular biology research. Come and try these tools to discover what it is like to work in a biology lab! All talks will be in english.

Viruses against brain cancer, a reality ?

Professor Jean Rommelaere (Head of the cancer virotherapy team at DKFZ)

Viruses have a bad reputation, and rightly so, since a number of them are responsible for diseases. However, viruses can also be used to our benefit. In particular, certain viruses are able to kill tumour cells under conditions in which they are harmless for normal cells. These viruses are called “oncolytic”, and are the subject of intensive investigations worldwide. I shall illustrate how oncolytic parvoviruses can be used in the fight against brain cancer.

Know Thy Enemy - How better diagnosis might lead to innovative new treatments for brain tumours

Dr David Jones (Senior Researcher at the German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ)

Dr Violaine Goidts (Group leader in the Department for Molecular Genetics at the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ)

We will show you the amazing progress that has been made in the past few years in understanding and more accurately diagnosing adult and childhood brain tumours – the first step towards better treatments in this extremely complex disease. In addition, we will give you a glimpse into our current research, which aims to find new treatment options for patients suffering from aggressive brain tumours, exploiting the wealth of unusual compounds produced by naturally-occurring fungi.

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