Princess Lilian Foundation | Visiting Professorship 2026

  • When Apr 03, 2026 from 02:30 PM to 05:30 PM (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)
  • Where UNamur, L12 auditorium
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Adrian Harris 

Princess Lilian Foundation | Visiting Professorship 2026

Prof. Adrian Harris was appointed as the first Professor of Medical Oncology in Oxford in 1989 and set up the first Medical Oncology Department in the University. As the director of the new Imperial Cancer Research Fund Unit at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) and a Clinical Unit at the Churchill Hospital, he rapidly established a phase I centre. He led a laboratory programme on tumour angiogenesis and hypoxia 1989-2020. Read more

 

14h30 – 15h30
Lecture by Prof. Adrian Harris, University of Oxford, UK
Challenges moving from laboratory drug discovery to early phase clinical trial
15h30 – 17h30 Master class
Oral communications by young researchers from the Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), followed by feedback and discussion with Prof. Adrian Harris
 
Manon Van Den Abbeel, UNamur, URBC
X-ray and proton irradiation-induced anti-tumor immunity and type I interferon response in syngeneic HNSCC mouse models
 
Giacomo Lopopolo, UNamur, LARN
Understanding the role of mitochondrial functions and lipid metabolism in cancer cell response to irradiation
 
Maxence Toussaint, UNamur, URPhyM
Inactive GlcNAc-1-phosphotransferase potentiates the aggressive properties of triple negative breast cancer cells 
 
Louise Gerard, UNamur, URPhyM
Metabolic determinants of response to arginine deprivation in pancreatic cancer 
 
Céline Maschietto, CHU UCL Namur, Namur Molecular Tech
From Waste to Insight: Accelerated molecular characterization to optimize non-small cell lung cancer care 
 
Jonathan Decarpentrie, UNamur, URPC
Toward a blood test for glioblastoma: a multivariate plasma biomarker model for a safe diagnostic and monitoring 

 

Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture and the master class!

No registration required.