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Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3669-19-00-00There are no available seats 
Enrollment deadline: 02/04/2019
Date and time17.06.2019, at: 09:00 - 19.06.2019, at: 18:00
Regular seats20
Course fee3,480.00 kr.
LecturersJanine Erler
ECTS credits2.60
Contact personMoMed Team    E-mail address: momed@bric.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.

Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Understand the influence of cellular versus non-cellular tumor components in enabling metastasis from a basic research and a clinical perspective
2. Identify the outstanding questions in the field
3. Learn how to plan experiments to address key questions in the field
4. Develop a critical reading/understanding of important papers in the field
5. Establish a network with peers from the same field and gain insight into career progression.

Content
Three major topics will be covered:
1. Metastatic niche – cellular components
2. Metastatic niche – non cellular components
3. Targeting the metastatic niche – clinical therapy perspectives

Participants
The course is aimed at persons with a background in cancer research. Attendees must be undertaking research in the field of cancer. Max 20 persons.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Clinical Cancer Research
Cellular and Genetic Medicine

Language
The course will be in English only.

Form
The course is a mixture of lectures by the organizers, invited speakers, group work, presentations, and discussions. The course will include a high degree of interaction between the students and speakers, including specific career sessions where career paths will be discussed with the organizers and speakers. The course includes all meals, and thus demands that you engage yourselves 100% these 3 days. The course requires that you to prepare some reading and questions, to be submitted to organizer before the course.

Course director
Janine Erler, Professor, BRIC (janine.erler@bric.ku.dk)
Elena Gueriai Rocco, IEO, Italy
Karin de Visser, Professor, NKI, Netherlands

Teachers
Janine Erler, Professor, BRIC, Copenhagen
Karin de Visser, Professor, NKI, Netherlands
Elena Gueriai Rocco, IEO, Italy
Neta Erez, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Oliver Pearce, Barts cancer Institute, UK
Rosie Kaplan, NCI, US

Dates
June 17-19th 2019

Course location
International House, Gyldenløvsgade 11, 6th floor and BRIC

Registration
Please register before April 2nd 2019. After the registration deadline you will be asked to prepare and submit some Mandatory questions to the organizers in order to attend the course.

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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