Programme

08:00 Registration Opens DKMS
08:00-09:00       Closed Session
09:00-12:30       Open Session
09:00-10:00 SYMPOSIUM DR REDDY’S
Topic: Update on NPC
Speaker: tbc
Session 1:  Joint Plenary : Diagnostics in Cancer
Chairs: Georgia and Estelle
10:20-10:30 Opening
Dr Devan Moodley and Dr Justin Du Toit
10:30-11:00   Liquid biopsies in 2026
Speaker: Dr Kusha Kalideen
11:00-11:30 The place of genetic testing in cancer
Speaker: tbc
11:30-12:00 Risk Adapted therapy in EBC
Speaker: Dr William Audeh
12:00-12:30 The molecular footprint of cytotoxic therapies
Speaker: Rachel Viava
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
12:30-13:20 SYMPOSIUM : ASTRA ZENECA
Topic: HER2
Speaker: tbc
13:30-15:30  Session 2: Breast Track
Chairs: tbc
Session 2: Optimising the Recipient
Chairs: Dr Justin Du Toit & Dr Candice Hendricks
13:30-14:00 Topic: CDK4/6i in EBC What when and whom?
Speaker: tbc
Topic: Model-based dosing of ATG for better survival after allo transplantation
Speaker: Professor Jan Jaap de Boelens
Chief of the Paediatric Transplant and Cellular Therapy Service (TCT) at Memorial Sloane Kettering, New York,
Sponsored by DKMS
14:00-14:30 Topic: ADC,s in BC. Where is it best used?
Speaker: tbc
 
Topic: Transplant conditioning intensity (TCI) score predicts allo-HCT outcomes in patients with myelofibrosis
Dr Donal McLornan
University college London, UK
14:30-15:00 Case 1:
1 EBC 1 MBC
Case presenter 10 min
Discussant 10 min
Q and A 10 min
Topic: How much HLA still matters in allo-SCT?
Speaker:  tbc
Sponsored by:  DKMS sponsored .
15:00-15:30 Case 2:
1 EBC 1 MBC
Case presenter 10 min
Discussant 10 min
Q and A 10 min
Topic: Haplo SCT strategies in resource limited settings
Speaker: Dr Mohana Reddy
Sankalp foundation, India
Sponsored by: DKMS
15:30-16:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:00-16:30 Topic: What’s new in Her2 amplified disease?
Speaker: tbc
Topic: ‘real world’ experience of JAK inhibitors, splenomegaly management and novel agents in myelofibrosis transplant
Speaker: Dr Donal McLornan
UCL, London
16:30-17:00 Topic: Optimal management of the Her2 low patient
Speaker: tbc 
Topic: (GRAPPA) Graft vs host disease prophylaxis in MUD allo: a RCT comparing PTCy vs ATG
Speaker: Dr Judith Schaffrath
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Sponsored by DKMS
17:00-18:00 Case 1: Her2 positive 1 Her2 low
Case presenter 10 min
Discussant 10 min
Q and A 10 min
Topic: Paediatric B-cell Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, use of Blincyto
Speaker: tbc
Case 2: Her2 positive 1 Her2 low
Case presenter 10 min
Discussant 10 min
Q and A 10 min
Topic: Disease risk but not remission status determines transplant outcomes in AML: long-term outcomes of the ASAP trial
Speaker: Dr Judith Schaffrath
[Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany]
Sponsored by DKMS
18:00-18:30 SASMO AGM  SASCeTS AGM  
18:30-21:30 Exhibitors Welcome | Networking Cocktail
07:00 Registration & Exhibition Opens
07:00-07:50 SYMPOSIUM : NOVARTIS

Topic:  tbc

Speaker: tbc
 

Session 3: Joint Plenary

Chairs: tbc

07:50-08:00 Opening of Plenary
08:00-08:30 Honorary lecture
Speaker: tbc
08:30-09:00 A bone marrow transplant registry for South Africa?
Speaker: Prof Estelle Verburgh
09:00-09:30 Essentials of setting up research units in SA?
Prof Paul Ruff
09:30-10:00 Fertility Lecture
Speaker: tbc
10:00-10:50 REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:00-10:50 SYMPOSIUM J & J                   
Topic: Prostate
Speaker: tbc
 SYMPOSIUM ASTRA ZENECA
Topic: Eculizumab in thrombotic micro-angiopathy post-transplant
Speaker: Dr Regis da Latour, Paris, France
Chair: Dr Justin Du Toit
10:50-13:20 Session 4:
SASMO SASCETS SASOPh – PHARMACISTS SASREG NURSES
SYMPOSIUM
Session 4: Uro Genital Track
Chairs: tbc
Session 4:
Donor track
Chairs: Dr Hannes Koornhof, Dr Pieter du Toit
10:50-11:20 Topic: The latest developments in the treatment of metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma.
Speaker: Prof Manuela Schmidinger
Topic: Donor selection beyond HLA: focus on donor age
Speaker:
Prof. Dr Tobias Holderried
Bonn, Germany
Sponsored by: DKMS
11:20-11:50 Topic: Ovarian speaker PARP
Speaker: tbc
Topic: Allo-HCT in Sickle cell disease
Speaker: Julie Makani, Tanzania
Sponsored by DKMS
11:50-13:00 Topic:
Challenging cases in UGT
Presenters: Moderator &
4 panelists
Topic: Optimising donor outcomes
Speaker: Jay Feinberg
CEO, of Gift of Life Marrow Registry, New York
Sponsored by SABMR
Topic: Duffy agnostic decision making (donors)
Speaker: Tanya Glatt
 
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
13:00-13:50 SYMPOSIUM – ROCHE
Topic: HER 2 Patient Focus: What is important to a patient with HER 2 EBC In South Africa?
Speaker: tbc
 
SYMPOSIUM J& J
Topic: Myeloma
Speaker: Prof Roberta Mina
14:00-17:00 Session 5:
SASMO
Lung
Chairs: tbc
SASCETS
Cell & Gene Therapy SA
Chairs:
Dr Sharlene Parasnath
Dr Jacques Malherbe
SASOPh –
PHARMACISTS
SASREG NURSES
SYMPOSIUM
14:00-14:30 Topic: Rare Lung Cancer Mesothelioma Thymic NET
Speaker: tbc
 
Topic: CAR-NK cells (immunity Bio)
Speakers:
Lennie Sender & Jackie Thomson
14:30-15:00 Topic: The evolution of lung cancer treatment
Speaker:
Dr Lizza Hendricks Netherlands
Topic: Access to CGT in SA
Speaker:
C. Hendricks
Topic: CAR T cell trial ACTLife. 
Speaker: D. Brittain
15:00-15:30 Panel Discussion
Topic: How to improve lung cancer care in Africa
15:30-16:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
16:00-18:00 Session 6: Innovation in Oncology
Chairs: tbc Chairs:
Dr Justin du Toit
Dr Jackie Thomson
16:00-16:30 Topic: Skin cancer
Speaker: Dr Teresa Amaral
Topic: ATT progress in South Africa
Speaker: Elke Neujahr, CEO DKMS
16:30-17:00 Topic:
Innovation in Cancer Treatment
Speaker: tbc
Topic: Allo-HCT for children with inborn errors
Speaker: Prof Michael Albert , DKMS, Germany
17:00-18:00 Proffered papers Proffered papers
19:30-22:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
  Session 7: Joint Plenary
Chairs:
08:30-08:40 Opening
08:40-09:00 Bottle necks in Oncology care
Speaker: tbc
09:00-09:30 AI in Oncology
Speaker: Dr Hemmel Amrania
09:30-10:00   VZV Vaccinations in Oncology patients
Speaker: Dr Jeremy Nel  
10:00-11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK 
10:00-10:50 SYMPOSIUM ROCHE  
Topic:
Shifting the paradigm in the management of lung cancer, from addressing early-stage disease to considering the patient journey in extensive-stage lung cancer.
Speaker: tbc
SYMPOSIUM GSK
Topic: V Vaccines post-haematopoietic transplant
Speaker: Dr Jeremy Nel
11:00-12:00 SASMO
Session 8:
Female Genital track
Chairs:  tbc
SASCeTS:
Session 8:
Pre Tx Optimisation & Post Transplant Complications
Chairs: Prof Estelle Verburgh, Dr David Brittain
11:00-11:30 Topic: Ovarian Cancer
Speaker: tbc
Topic: Belumosudil use for chronic GVHD
Speaker: Professor Jan Jaap de Boelens, MSK, NY, USA
Sponsored by DKMS
11:30-12:00 Topic: Endometrial Cancer
Spaker: tbc
Topic: Transfusion medicine topic
Speaker: Professor Matt Seftel, Canadian Blood Service
Sponsored by SASCETS
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