1st Lecture Hall
08:00 - 08:30
Registration
08:30 - 08:40
Opening Remarks
Minister Wen-Ta Chiu/Department of Health and welfare
08:40 - 09:00
Welcome Speech
Superintendent Wen-Neng Ueng/Chang Gung Memorial
Hospital
Superintendent Fang-Yue Lin/Taipei Veterans General
Hospital
Keynote Lecture
Moderator:
Academician Cheng-Wen Wu/National Yang-Ming University
09:00 - 09:30
Novel Signaling Pathways and Target Cancer Therapy.
Academician Mien-Chie Hung/The University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Session: Lung Cancer
Moderator:
Academician Cheng-Wen Wu/National Yang-Ming University
09:30 - 09:55
hRAB37 GTPase, a Novel Metastasis Suppressor in Lung
Cancer
Prof. Yi-Ching Wang/National Cheng Kung University
09:55 - 10:20
Investigation of Stemness Signature and Tumor-initiating
Property in Malignant Cancer
Prof. Shih-Hwa Chiou/National Yang-Ming University
10:20 - 10:45
Anti-cancer Stem Cell Drug Discovery via Connectivity
Map
Prof. Chi-Ying Huang/National Yang-Ming University
10:45 - 11:05
Coffee Break
Moderator:
Dr. Chih-Yi Chen/China Medical University Hospital
11:05 - 11:30
Updates of Pathology and Molecular Diagnosis in Lung
Cancer
Prof. Teh-Ying Chou/Taipei Veterans General Hospital
11:30 - 11:55
Updates in Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy for
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Dr. Chong-Jen Yu/National Taiwan University Hospital
11:55 - 12:20
Surgical Treatment for Early Stage Non-small Cell Lung
Cancer- Factors Affect the Failure Pattern and Survival
Outcomes
Dr. Yu-Chung Wu/Taipei Veterans General Hospital
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
Keynote Lecture
Moderator:
Prof. Jaw-Ching Wu/Taipei Veterans General Hospital;
National Yang-Ming University
13:30 - 14:00
Mechanistic Insights from Functional Genomics Studies of
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Metastasis
Dr. Xin Wei Wang/National Cancer Institute, USA
Session: HCC Progression Mechanism and Treatment Strategy
Moderators:
Academician Ding-Shinn Chen/National Taiwan University
Hospital; Prof. Rong-Nan Chien/Chang Gung Memorial
Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine
Keelung
14:00 - 14:25
Mechanisms of Early and Late Postoperative Recurrence
of HCC and Mechanism-targeted Therapy
Prof. Jaw-Ching Wu/Taipei Veterans General Hospital;
National Yang-Ming University
14:25 - 14:50
Molecular Classification and Stratified Medicine in Liver
Cancer
Dr. Augusto Villanueva/Institute of Liver Studies, London,
UK
14:50 - 15:15
Taiwan Research Biosignature Network on Hepatocellular
Carcinoma (TARGET-HCC)
Dr. Chi-Ling Chen/National Taiwan University Hospital
15:15 - 15:35
Coffee Break
Moderators:
Academician Ding-Shinn Chen/National Taiwan University
Hospital; Prof. Rong-Nan Chien/Chang Gung Memorial
Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine
Keelung
15:35 - 16:00
The Duality Tracer Principle of PET in Hepatocellular
Carcinoma
Prof. Garrett CL Ho/Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital,
China
16:00 - 16:25
Surgical and Non-surgical Treatments for Hepatocellular
Carcinoma Progression or Metastasis
Prof. Shi-Ming Lin/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
16:25 - 16:50
Mechanism-Based Targeted Therapy for Hepatocellular
Carcinoma: Present and Future
Dr. Chiun Hsu/National Taiwan University
16:50 - 17:10
Award Ceremony
President and Academician Kung-Yee Liang/National
Yang-Ming University
17:10 - 17:20
Closing Remarks
2nd Lecture Hall
Keynote Lecture
Moderator:
Prof. Ming-Hsul Tsai/China Medical University Hospital
09:00 - 09:30
Comprehensive Genomic Characterization of Head and
Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Prof. Jeffrey N Myers/The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center, USA
Session: From Genomics to Clinical applications (I)
Moderators:
Academician Jacqueline Whang-Peng /Taipei Medical
University; Academician Pei-Jer Chen /National Taiwan
University Hospital
09:30 - 09:55
Regulation of stemness gene expression and tumorigenicity
by an endogenous matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor
RECK
Prof. Wen-Chun Hung/National Health Research Institutes
09:55 - 10:20
The Role of Chromatin Modifiers in Hypoxia-induced
Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition.
Prof. Kou-Juey Wu/National Yang-Ming University
10:20 - 10:45
Characterizing the Migration and Non-migrating Cancer
Stem Cells
Dr. Muh-Hwa Yang/Taipei Veterans General Hospital
10:45 - 11:05
Coffee Break
Moderators:
Academician Jacqueline Whang-Peng /Taipei Medical
University; Academician Pei-Jer Chen /National Taiwan
University Hospital
11:05 - 11:30
Mind the gap: From Research Finding to Clinical Reality
in the Setting of Hereditary Colorectal Cancer.
Prof. Nicholas Hawkins/University of New South Wales,
Australia
11:30 - 11:55
Too Good is no Good: Double-edged Story of DNA Repair
Proteins in Breast
Prof. Shyng-Shiou Yuan/Kaohsiung Medical University
Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
Keynote Lecture
Moderator:
Prof. Hwei-Fang Tien/National Taiwan University Hospital
13:30 - 14:00
Recent advances of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Prof. Ching-Hon Pui/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Session: From Genomics to Clinical Applications (II)
Moderators:
President and Academician Hsing-Jien Kung /National Health
Research Institutes; Prof. Hsin-Chen Lee/National Yang-Ming
University Hospital
14:00 - 14:25
Biomarker to Identify Aristolochic Acid-related Diseases.
Prof. Arthur P. Grollman/Stony Brook University, USA
14:25 - 14:50
Aristolochic Acid and Urothelial Carcinoma.
Dr. Chung-Hsin Chen/National Taiwan University Hospital
14:50 - 15:15
The Role of Nicotinic Receptor Involved in
Smoking-induced Breast Cancer Formation and its
Prevention.
Prof. Yuan-Soon Ho/Taipei Medical University
15:15 - 15:35
Coffee Break
Moderators:
President and Academician Hsing-Jien Kung /National Health
Research Institutes; Prof. Hsin-Chen Lee/National Yang-Ming
University Hospital
15:35 - 16:00
Targeting AR and Akt Signaling Pathways for Treatment
of Advanced Prostate Cancers
Prof. Chih-Pin Chuu/National Health Research Institutes
16:00 - 16:25
A Molecular Link Between Tissue Architecture, Wnt
Pathway, Cancer Stemness and Aggressiveness in
Glandular Cancers
Prof. Kelvin Kun-Chih Tsai/National Health Research
Institutes
3rd Lecture Hall
Session: Brain Tumor
09:00 - 9:20
AT/RT: An Enigmatic Disease in Children.
Dr. Tai-Tong Wong/Cheng Hsin General Hospital
09:20 - 10:00
Childhood Embryonal Brain Tumor Classification - a
Moving Molecular Target.
Dr. Annie Huang/University of Toronto, Canada
10:00 - 10:30
Small RNA Sequencing in Brain Tumor MicroRNA Study.
Prof. Hsei-Wei Wang/National Yang-Ming University
10:30 - 11:00
Intra-operative Monitoring in Brain Tumor Surgery.
Prof. Tsui-Fen Yang/National Yang-Ming University
11:00 - 11:10
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40
Intraoperative MRI with integrated functional navigation
guidance for brain tumor surgery.
Prof. Jin-song Wu/
11:40 - 12:10
Surgical Treatment of Insula Tumors.
Dr. Sanford P.C. Hsu/Taipei Veterans General Hospital
12:10 - 13:30
Lunch
4th Lecture Hall
Session: Gastric and Intestinal Cancer
Moderator:
Prof. Emeritus Jaw-Town Lin/ National Taiwan University;
President, The Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan
09:30 - 09:55
MicroRNAs and Gastric Cancer.
Dr. Su-Shun Lo/National Yang-Ming University Hospital
09:55 - 10:20
Tumor Associated Macrophages and Gastric Cancer.
Dr. Yan-Shen Shan/National Cheng Kung University Hospital
10:20 - 10:45
Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer
Dr. Hsiang-Lin Tsai/Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho
Memorial Hospital
10:45 - 11:05
Coffee Break
Moderator:
Superintendent Su-Shun Lo/National Yang-Ming University
Hospital
11:05 - 11:30
Helicobacter Pylori and Gastric Cancer.
Dr. Ming-Shiang Wu/National Taiwan University Hospital
11:30 - 11:55
Identification of Aurora Kinase A as an Unfavorable
Prognostic Factor and Potential Treatment Target for
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor.
Dr. Chun-Nan Yeh/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
11:55 - 12:20
Significance of Notch Signaling Pathway in Gastric
Cancer.
Prof. Tien-Shun Yeh/National Yang-Ming University
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
Session: Lymphoma
Moderator:
Prof. Tseng-tong Kuo/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
14:00 - 14:25
New Advances in Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas.
Prof. Philippe Gaulard/CHU Henri-Mondor, Paris-Est
University School of Medicine in Créteil, France
14:25 - 14:50
Genomic Profiling of T-cell Lymphoma and its Clinical
Implications.
Prof. Bin-Tean Teh/National Cancer Center Singapore
14:50 - 15:15
Follicular Lymphoma in Taiwan: a Low Frequency of
t(14;18) with Grade 3A Tumors More Closely Related to
Grade 3B than to Low-grade Tumors.
Prof. Shih-Sung Chuang/Chi Mei Medical Center
15:15 - 15:35
Coffee Break
Moderator:
Prof. Po-Min Chen/Taipei Veterans General Hospital; National
Yang-Ming University
15:35 - 16:00
Functional Imaging in Lymphoma.
Prof. Alain Rahmouni/CHU Henri-Mondor, Paris-Est
University School of Medicine in Créteil, France
16:00 - 16:25
The Many Faces of Cutaneous Lymphoma: A Taiwan
Experience and a Study of Cutaneous Plasmacytosis.
Prof. Tseng-tong Kuo/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
16:25 - 16:50
Hematopoietic Stem Cells Transplantation for Lymphoma.
Dr. Ming Yao/National Taiwan University Hospital