IAOP 2021 Programme
IAOP 2021 Detailed Programme
All sessions except those with a specified room will be in the Kelvin Lecture Theatre.
DAY 1
DAY 1
Wednesday
30 June
2021
08.00 Registration Opens
09.00 Opening Ceremony
09.30 Symposium I
CANCER IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOTHERAPY
Chairs- Gareth Thomas & Tuula Salo
09.30 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and beyond
John Maher (King's College, London)
11.00 Coffee (Riverside Rooms)
11.30 Using 'omics data to study the HNSCC immune environment
Tim Fenton (University of Kent)
12.00 Improving immunotherapy: targeting the tumour microenvironment
Gareth Thomas (University of Southampton)
12.30 Lunch & Poster Session (Riverside Rooms)
(Presenters to be available for discussion from 13.00)
14.00 Keynote Lecture
Updates on sinonasal tract pathology: nothing to sneeze at! Justin Bishop (UT Southwestern, USA)
Chair- Sonja Boy
15.00 BSOMP Slide Seminar
Chair- Bill Barrett
Panel- Justin Bishop (UT Southwestern, USA)
Mary Toner (University of Dublin)
17.00 Finish
DAY 2
DAY 2
Thursday
01 July
2021
08.30 Symposium
PRECURSOR LESIONS OF THE HEAD & NECK
Chairs- Wanninayake Tilakaratne & Grace Bradley
08.30 Premalignancy of the oral cavity: from molecular profiling to
personalized prevention strategies
Pierre Saintigny (Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon)
09.30 Inflaming progression: understanding the role of inflammation in oral
Marco Magalhaes (University of Toronto)
10.15 The use of non-invasive optical and molecular tests in management of
Catherine Poh (University of British Columbia)
11.00 Coffee (Riverside Rooms)
11.30 Human papillomavirus associated oral epithelial dysplasia
Selvam Thavaraj (King's College, London)
11.50 Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia and Aneuploidy
Jaana Rautava (University of Turku)
12.10 Grading laryngeal dysplasia: order from chaos?
Eddy Odell (King's College, London)
12.30 Lunch & Poster Session (Riverside Rooms)
(Presenters to be available for discussion from 13.00)
14.00 Keynote Lecture
NEWLY DEFINED (AND RECENTLY REFINED) SALIVARY GLAND
Justin Bishop (UT Southwestern, USA)
Chair- Willie van Heerden
15.00 IAOP Debate
AMELOBLASTIC FIBRO-ODONTOMA: WHO SAYS 'DEVELOPING
ODONTOMA'?: Who SAYS 'NEOPLASIA'?
Chairs- Takashi Takata & John Wright
Against:
John Wright (Texas A&M University)
Tie-Jun Li (Peking University)
For:
Marilena Vered (Tel Aviv University)
Merva Soluk Tekkesin (Istanbul University)
16.15 IAOP AGM
DAY 3
DAY 3
Friday
02 July
2021
08.30 Free Papers I
(Kelvin Lecture Theatre)
Chair- Sharon White
10.30 Coffee (Riverside Rooms)
11.00 Slide Seminar II
Chairs-
Brendon Conn & Mary Toner
Panel-
Alison Rich
(University of Otago)
Ioannis Koutlas
(University of Minnesota)
Seamus Napier
(Belfast Healthcare Trust)
12.30 Lunch (Riverside Rooms)
08.30 Free Papers II
(Turing Lecture Theatre)
Chair- Daniel Brierley
11.00 Free Papers III
(Turing Lecture Theatre)
Chair- James Brown
13.30 Keynote Lecture (Kelvin Lecture Theatre)
IAOP President's Prize Lecture
Chair- Eddy Odell (IAOP President)
Genomics-led development of novel therapies for oral squamous cell
carcinoma
Cheong Sok Ching (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
14.20 Presentation of IAOP 2022
14.30 Symposium III
(Kelvin Lecture Theatre)
NEXT GENERATION
PATHOLOGY: MOLECULAR
& DIGITAL PATHOLOGY
FOR DIAGNOSIS &
RESEARCH
Chairs-
Pablo Vargas & Esther O'Regan
14.30 AI based cancer histology
15.15 Integrated pathology practice
in an era of precision medicine
15.40 Digital microscopy in the
16.00 Artificial Intelligence and
Digital Pathology; Friends or
Foes
Symposium IV
(Turing Lecture Theatre)
CLINICAL TRIALS
Chair- Keith Hunter
14.30 Cancer clinical trials – what is the role of pathology and the pathologist?
(University of California, San Francisco)
16.15 BSOMP AGM SFOPOM AGM
18.00 Presidents’ Reception and Awards Ceremonies
DAY 4
DAY 4
Saturday
03 July
2021
09.00 Keynote Lecture
SFOPOM Pindborg Lecture
Chair- Camilla Kragelund
10.00 Clinicopathological Conference (CPC)
Chairs- Mark Lingen & Camilla Kragelund
11.00 Coffee (Riverside Rooms)
11.30 CPC (continued)
12.30 Closing Ceremony
