Croucher Summer Course 2023

Patient-Derived Organoids and Their Applications in Cancer Research

24 to 28 July 2023  |  HONG KONG

Croucher summer Course 2023

Overview Faculty Registration Poster submission
guidelines
Time Programme speaker
- Course introduction
- Introduction to patient-derived cancer organoids (PDOs)
Nathalie WONG
Introduction to Utrecht Platform for Organoid Technology (UPORT) and global outlook on patient-derived cancer organoids (PDOs) Onno KRANENBURG
Morning Tea break
Panel discussion
Briefing prior to lab session
Lunch Lunch
Afternoon Lab session: Generate organoids from tissue
Evening Poster session
Time Programme speaker
Colorectal cancer (CRC) organoids Onno KRANENBURG
Liver cancer organoids and pharmacogenomics Nathalie WONG
Morning Panel discussion
Tea break
Briefing prior to lab session
Lunch Lunch
Afternoon Lab session: Passaging and seeding
Evening Debate session
Time Programme speaker
Morning Briefing prior to lab session
Lab session: ​Setup drug assays and immunofluorescence imaging
Lunch Lunch
Afternoon & Evening Touring around HK and dinner
Time Programme speaker
Modeling human diseases in organoids Marc VAN DE WETERING
Patient-derived organoid (PDO) platform to facilitate clinical decision making - Case studies and clinical trials  Stephen L Chan 
Morning Panel discussion
Tea break
Briefing prior to lab session
Lunch Lunch
Afternoon  Lab session - Imaging of organoids and high-content visualization
Evening Workshop on PDO modeling of metastatic cancer in mice 
Time Programme speaker
Microbiome-organoid interactions in disease and cancer  Jun YU
Microfluidics as a platform for dynamic and combinatorial drug screening of tumor organoids  Chia-hung CHEN 
Morning Panel discussion
Tea break
Briefing prior to lab session
Lunch Lunch
Afternoon  Lab session - Drug sensitivity assays of cancer organoid cultures 
Poster session 
Evening Closing 
Farewell dinner 
Travel Grant Provisional
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