8th International Translational Cancer Research Conference:

Role of Inflammation and Immune System for Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Organized by: Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, INDIA
& Society for Translational Cancer Research (STCR)
February 13-16, 2020

Scientific Programme

Day 1: Thursday, 13 February 2020

1:00 PM-3:30 PM Registration

3:30 PM-4:30 PM Inauguration
4:30 PM-5:00 PM High tea
Session 1: Keynote lecture
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Saripella Srikrishna
Chairpersons: Bharat B Aggarwal and Anil K Tripathi
5:00 PM-5:50 PM Dr. Rajendra Badwe (Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai)
Act of observation in cancer
5:50 PM-6:40 PM James F Sallis (California, USA)
Physical activity and cancer: Prevention, treatment, and quality of life
7:00 PM-9:30 PM Dinner

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 Day 2: Friday, 14 February 2020

8:00 AM-9:00 AM Registration and breakfast

Session 2 (Invited talks): Inflammation and cancer
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Rakesh K Singh
Chairpersons: Sen Pathak and Surya P Singh
9:00 AM-9:35 AM Sudeep Gupta (ACTREC Mumbai)
Locally advanced cervical cancer: The TMC contribution
9:35 AM-10:05 AM Jamboor K Vishwanatha (Texas, USA)
MIEN1 in regulation of migration and invasion in prostate and breast cancers
10:05 AM-10:35 AM Sarang Bani (SAMI LABS LIMITED, Bengaluru)
The Curcuminoids: Nature’s answer to cancer
10:35 AM-11:00 AM Pinku Mukherjee (North Carolina, USA)
Anti-inflammatory agents enhances the efficacy of CAR T cells against pancreatic cancer
11:00 AM-11:15 AM Tea break
Session 3A (Invited talks): Immune system and cancer
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Ajay Kumar
Chairpersons: James F Sallis and Rajnikant Mishra
11:15 AM-11:45 AM Vipin K Chaturvedi (California, USA)
Unconventional regulatory CD8 T cells: A potential novel check point in cancer progression
11:45 AM-12:05 PM Alok C Bharti (University of Delhi, New Delhi)
Activated STAT3 signaling in cervical carcinogenesis: its role in HPV transcription, replication and integration in the host
genome
12:05 PM-12:25 PM Suresh C Jhanwar (New York, USA)
Chronic inflammation, regulation of proliferation, signaling pathways and potential therapeutic targets in lung cancer
12:25 PM-12:45 PM Subhamoy Dasgupta (New York, USA)
Metabolic dysregulation promotes tumor immune evasion to drive metastasis
12:45 PM-1:00 PM Amit K Bhattacharya (Premas Life Sciences, Delhi)
Translational potential of imaging mass cytometry in molecular histopathology of cancer tissue
1:00 PM-1:20 PM Hemangini H Vora (GCRI Ahmedabad)
Array-CGH and transcriptome profiling of triple negative breast cancer: GCRI study

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Session 3B (Invited talks): Cancer diagnostics and target
Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Akhilesh Kumar
Chairpersons: Arvind M Kayastha and Rakesh K Singh
11:15 AM-11:30 AM Sanjay Yadav (AIIMS Raebareli)
Understanding the role of microRNAs and proteostasis regulating proteins in HNSCC and Lung cancers
11:30 AM-11:45 AM Gauri Misra (NIB Noida)
AGC kinases as drug targets in cancer
11:45 AM-12:00 PM Munish Kumar (University of Allahabad, Prayagraj)
Prognostic value and risk associated with DNA repair gene, GSTs and cytokine gene polymorphism with susceptibility to
lung cancer in North India
12:00 PM-12:15 PM Praveen K Shetty (Nitte University, Mangalore)
Characterization of biomarker and therapeutic target for triple negative breast cancer
12:15 PM-12:30 PM Dinesh Kumar (SGPGIMS Lucknow)
NMR based cancer metabolomics: From biomarkers to disease management
12:30 PM-12:45 PM Manas K Santra (NCCS Pune)
Gatekeeper tumor suppressor FBXO31 abrogates proliferative signaling cascades to prevent breast cancer
tumorigenesis
12:45 PM-1:00 PM Mehdi H Shahi (AMU Aligarh)
Role of sonic hedgehog (Shh)-Gli1 cell signaling pathway in the most common brain tumour glioblastoma
1:00 PM-1:15 PM Sadhana Sharma (AIIMS Patna)
Battling against the extremely high treatment cost of CAR T-cell therapy for hematological malignancies

Session 3C (Award session-Oral presentation by students 1): Immunomodulation and cancer therapy
Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Pawan Dubey
Chairpersons: Kishore B Challagundla and Om P Singh
11:15 AM-1:15 PM
Gisha R Antony (Regional Cancer Centre, Kerala): Expression of PD-L1 in breast cancer promotes tumor progression and epithelial-
mesenchymal transition
Arathi Rajan (RGCB Kerala): Impact of E-ER signaling on BRCA1 mediated DNA damage repair
Geetu R Varghese (RGCB Kerala): Impact of β-hCG in regulating the immune cell population in BRCA1 mutated breast cancers
Ilakya Selvakumar (SASTRA University, Thanjavur): Significance of micro RNA in endothelial mesenchymal transition in radiation-induced
pulmonary fibrosis

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Ruhi Dixit (IMS, BHU Varanasi): Mutational analysis of sonic hedgehog gene and its association with gallbladder cancer
S Sasikala (Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu): An epidemological study of environmental pollutants induced breast cancer
Shayani Dasgupta (CNCI Kolkata): RGS5-a crucial contributor in immunomodulation of tumor pericytes
Shilpa Sharma (South Asian University, New Delhi): Extracellular ATP released by the dying cells induce inflammatory cancer metastasis in
chemo resistant cells
Suresh D Sivakalai (University of Madras, Tamil Nadu): C-type natriuretic peptide suppress 7,12-Dimethylbenz[a]anthracene/Croton oil-
induced two-step skin carcinogenesis in male Swiss albino mice: Synergistic actions of CNP and cisplatin
Sushree Sulava (NISER Odisha): Assessment of therapeutic potential of dihydroartemisinin using in vivo glioma models
Usha Singh (IISER Bhopal): Nup62 interaction and stabilization of Nup88 alters NF-kB signaling in cancer
Yama Atri (University of Delhi, Delhi): Cul4A: An oncogenic driver and an attractive chemotherapeutic target for cervical cancer
Kaushik Neogi (IIT BHU, Varanasi):
Shruti Mishra (ISc BHU, Varanasi):
1:15 PM-2:15 PM Lunch and poster session (Poster 1-50)
Session 4A (Invited talks): Cancer cell signaling
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Shashi Pandey
Chairpersons: Ramesh Chandra and Debabrata Dash
2:15 PM-2:35 PM Kishore B Challagundla (Omaha, USA)

2:35 PM-2:55 PM Channa R De Silva (North Carolina, USA)

G-protein coupled receptor-targeted peptide-based probes for potential targeting of cancer cells
2:55 PM-3:15 PM Ajaikumar B Kunnumakkara (IIT Guwahati)
Role of TIPEs in lung cancer
3:15 PM-3:35 PM Himanshu Kumar (IISER Bhopal)
Viruses: Friend or foe in cancer?
3:35 PM-3:55 PM Devarajan Karunagaran (IIT Madras)
Regulation of wnt signaling by plumbagin in human colorectal cancer cells and colonospheres
3:55 PM-4:15 PM Pratip Banerji (PBH Research Foundation, Kolkata)
The Banerji protocolsTM/neo-homeopathy: The regression of malignant tumors by an ultra-dilute approach

Session 4B (Invited talks): Drug resistance, behavior, herbal medicine and cancer
Venue: Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Subash C Gupta
Chairpersons: Debapratim K Chowdhuri and Rajiva Raman

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2:15 PM-2:30 PM Hifzur R Siddique (AMU Aligarh)
Drug-resistant castration-resistant prostate cancer: Chemosensitization by lupeol
2:30 PM-2:45 PM Dibyendu Banerjee (CDRI Lucknow)
DNA ligase 1 mediates topoisomerase 1 drug resistance mechanism in colorectal cancer cells
2:45 PM-3:00 PM Anissa A Mirza (AIIMS Rishikesh)
Role of human behavior in cancer prevention
3:00 PM-3:15 PM Hui Tag (Rajiv Gandhi University, Doimukh)
Prospects of traditional wild food and medicinal plants in prevention of inflammation and cancer
3:15 PM-3:30 PM Anu Chandra (Era University, Lucknow)
An investigation on the apoptotic and antioxidant potential of ethanolic extract of wheatgrass
3:30 PM-3:45 PM Shashank Kumar (Central University of Punjab, Bathinda)
Bulbine frutescens: A novel source of notch signaling inhibitor
3:45 PM-4:00 PM Sreejith P Panicker (University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram)
Accumulation of metabolites destroys the hair follicle health: An in-vitro and in-vivo approach
4:00 PM-4:15 PM Swapan K Ghosh (Vivekananda Centenary College, Kolkata)
Present status of mushrooms as anticancer and immuno-enhancing agents for cancer management

Session 4C (Award session-Oral presentation by students 2): Nanomedicine, free radicals and cancer stem cells
Venue: Hall B (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Om P Singh
Chairpersons: Ranjit K Mishra and Arvind Kumar
2:15 PM-4:15 PM
Anil K Deshantri (University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherland): Liposomal drug delivery in cancer: hematological malignancies and beyond
Ankita Umrao (DY Patil University, Mumbai): Integrative cancer therapy with a novel antioxidant herbal formulation: in-vivo study
Aparna Menon A (University of Calicut, Kerala): Studies on the synthesis of biogenic silica nanoparticles and its effects as a drug carrier in
epirubicin based cancer therapy
Archana MG (Regional Cancer Centre, Kerala): Doxorubicin endowed polysaccharide capped gold nanoparticles as novel agents for cancer
therapy
Lekhika Pathak (IIT Guwahati): Identification of a novel immunosuppressive and inflammatory stemness pathway in cancer stem cells:
implication in cancer immunotherapy
Seema Bhuyan (IIT Guwahati): Mesenchymal stem cell altruism mediates a novel HMGB1/NKG2D immune response in oral cancer
Suchisnigdha Datta (CNCI Kolkata): Redox regulation of nrf-2 in lung cancer cells by tea: implication in cancer chemo-therapeutics and chemo-
sensitization

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Sunil Gowda SN (SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu): Radiation-induces H3K9 methylation on E-cadherin promoter mediated by ROS/Snail axis
during lung EMT: Exploring the role of G9a in radiation signaling
Md. Rizwanullah (Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi): Development of exemestane encapsulated TPGS polymer lipid hybrid nanoparticles:
optimization and in vitro assessments
Tanmay Bera (Vivekananda Centenary College, Kolkata): Effects of terpenoid (Hexane extract) isolate of Ramaria sp, as anti-cancerous agent,
against breast cancer cell line
Tapojyoti Sanyal (Vivekananda Centenary College, Kolkata): Study of F8 fraction (water extract) from Lentinus edodes against breast cancer
cell lines as anti-cancerous agents and its immunomodulatory effects on mice splenocyte
Nikee Awasthee (ISc BHU, Varanasi):
Akata Saha (CNCI, Kolkata): Intra-tumoral VEGF promotes switching of Th17 cells towards Treg cells
Vivek K Soni (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur): Chemo-sensitization activity of Curcumin in Hepatic Carcinoma Cell (Hep-G2)
4:15 PM-4:30 PM Tea Break
Session 5A (Invited talks): Oncogenes and cancer
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Rashmi Singh
Chairpersons: Kapil Mehta and Ramadevi Nimmanapalli
4:30 PM-4:55 PM Deepa Sampath (Ohio, USA)
Biology and targeting of mutant p53 in leukemia
4:55 PM-5:15 PM Shovan K Majumder (RRCAT Indore)
Optical Spectroscopic Technology- Towards Clinical Diagnosis of Oral Cancer
5:15 PM-5:35 PM Satya N Das (AIIMS New Delhi)
6-Gingerol inhibits growth of oral squamous cell carcinoma by targeting Akt/mTOR signalling pathway
5:35 PM-5:55 PM Virendra N Pandey (New Jersey, USA)
Molecular mechanism of tumorigenesis promoted by FUSE binding protein 1: A potential target for anticancer drug
development
5:55 PM-6:15 PM Alo Nag (University of Delhi, New Delhi)
Understanding the oncogenic mechanisms of FoxM1
6:15 PM-6:35 PM Vibha Tandon (JNU New Delhi)
Development of radiosensitizers for cancer radiotherapy through repurposing of drugs suggested by informatics

Session 5B (Invited talks): Noncoding RNAs and cancer immunoprevention

Venue: Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Anchal Singh
Chairpersons: Anchal Singh and Saripella Srikrishna

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4:30 PM-4:45 PM Subhrajit Biswas (Amity University, Noida)
Translational approach to inhibit nonresolving inflammation and angiogenesis alerting survival signals to prevent
hepatocarcinogenesis
4:45 PM-5:00 PM Naveen K Vishvakarma (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur)
Anti-inflammatory drugs for immunopotentiation in cancer
5:00 PM-5:15 PM PallabiKalita Hui (NIT, Yupia)
Pharmacological, antioxidant and anticancer studies of some selected medicinal plants of Arunachal himalayan region
5:15 PM-5:30 PM Umesh CS Yadav (Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar)
Prevention of cigarette smoke-induced ECM modulation by Fisetin in lung adenocarcinoma cells
5:30 PM-5:45 PM Neelam Yadav (RML Avadh University, Faizabad)
Efficient reconstitution of hepatic microvasculature by endothelin receptor antagonism in liver sinusoidal endothelial
cells by protection from inflammation-induced mitochondrial impairment and DNA damage
5:45 PM-6:00 PM Madhumita Roy (CNCI Kolkata)
Several factors contributing to iAs induced skin carcinogenesis may be modulated by black tea
6:00 PM-6:15 PM Santosh Kumar (NIT Rourkela)
Identification of lncRNA ribosnitches and their binding proteins involved in cancer
6:15 PM-6:30 PM Aklank Jain (Central University of Punjab, Bathinda)
Circulating miR-590-5p acts as tumor suppressor via targeting STAT3 pathway in non-small cell lung cancer

Session 5C (Award session-Oral presentation by students 3): Metabolome and cancer chemoprevention
Venue: Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Chandan Singh
Chairpersons: Ajaikumar B Kunnumakkara and Perumana Sudhakaran
4:15 PM-6:15 PM
Ajeesh BL (Regional Cancer Centre, Kerala): Role of glucose transporter (GLUT)-1, as a potential target in human breast cancer therapy
Arundhati Mehta (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur): Eugenol in Anti-Neoplasm Armamentarium: Morphological Alterations &
Molecular Interactions
Himanshu Dhanda (University of Delhi): Effect of bleomycin on SMAD-2,3,5, TGF-β signaling and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in A549
lung adenocarcinoma cell line
Ishant Arora (National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata): The Anti-mitotic action of plant derived anti-cancer drugs in homoeopathy
Kalpana Pal (University of Baroda, Vadodara): Chemo-profiling of Taverniera cuneifolia Roth (Ali) and investigations on its anti-cancer property
in lung cancer
Koushik Pandey (Vivekananda Centenary College, Kolkata): Study of mycochemistry and anticancerous activity of Astraeus hygrometricus on
MCF-7 cell line

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Parvathy Venate (IMS, BHU Varanasi): Evaluation of GP (Gudūci and Pippali) compound with special reference to its anti-cancerous and
immunomodulatory activity - an in vitro study
Prabhat Tiwari (National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata): Cancer Therapy: Modern Medicine and Homoeopathy- an integrative approach
Rachna Goenka (National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata): Cancer Therapy by the tree of life-thuja occidentalis
Sulfath TP (Regional Cancer Centre, Kerala): Verteporfin inhibits proliferation and metastasis in breast cancer cells via regulating YAP activation
Sumit S Verma (ISc BHU, Varanasi):
Vipin Rai (ISc BHU, Varanasi):
Kruti A Mehta (GCRI, Ahmedabad): Aberrant Glycosylation in Oral Cancer: Can Nature be the Remedy?
Vivek Akhouri (Anugrah Narayan College, Patna): Therapeutic effects of Pterocarpus santalinus seeds against DMBA induced breast cancer in
rats
7:00 PM-8:00 PM Cultural programme
8:00 PM-10:00 PM Dinner

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 Day 3: Saturday, 15 February 2020

8:00 AM-9:00 AM Registration and breakfast

Session 6 (Invited Talks): Clinical side of cancer
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Geeta Rai
Chairpersons: Varsha Gandhi and Surendra K Trigun
9:00 AM-9:30 AM Pankaj Chaturvedi (Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai)
Research in India having global impact - An experience from Tata Memorial Hospital
9:30 AM-9:55 AM Vijay K Shukla (IMS, BHU Varanasi)
Molecular genetics of gallbladder cancer
9:55 AM-10:20 AM Vinay K Puduvalli (Ohio, USA)
Beyond achilles heels and trojan horses: Rethinking the war against gliomas
10:20 AM-10:40 AM Vaskar Saha (Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre, Kolkata)
Development and evaluation of antibody directed therapy in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
10:40 AM-11:00 AM Puneet (IMS, BHU Varanasi)
Surgical management of carcinoma gallbladder
11:00 AM-11:15 AM Tea break
Session 7A (Invited talks): Cancer therapeutics
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Abhishek D Tripathi
Chairpersons: Jamboor K Vishwanatha and Daya S Pandey
11:15 AM-11:45 AM Roland J Thorpe (Maryland, USA)
Race differences in prostate cancer survivors: The role of psychosocial factors
11:45 AM-12:10 PM Ramesh Chandra (University of Delhi, New Delhi)
From bench to bed side: Opium alkaloid - noscapine: A potential chemotherapeutic agent
12:10 PM-12:25 PM Sarat Patanaik (GVK Biosciences, Hyderabad)
12:25 PM-12:45 PM Bernd-Michael Loeffler (Berlin, Germany)
Multiparametric individualized cancer therapy explained in cases
12:45 PM-1:00 PM Naveen K Nandan (Merck Life Sciences, Bengaluru)
1:00 PM-1:20 PM Mehdi Shakibaei (Munich, Germany)
Resveratrol down-modulates TNF-β-induced proliferation in colorectal cancer cells

Session 7B (Invited talks): New horizons in cancer biology

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Venue: Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Shreyans K Jain
Chairpersons: Ankush Gupta and Chandan Singh
11:15 AM-11:30 AM Sada N Dwivedi (AIIMS New Delhi)
Effectiveness of regimens used under Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy in Treatment of Breast-Cancer: Network Meta-
Analysis
11:30 AM-11:45 AM Anil M Limaye (IIT Guwahati)
Estrogen regulation and DNA methylation converge on intron-2 to modulate cystatin A expression in breast cancer cells
11:45 AM-12:00 PM Meena Jhanwar-Uniyal (New York, USA)
Molecular sequence of events and signaling pathways in cerebral metastases
12:00 PM-12:15 PM Navneet Agnihotri (Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Is cholesterol homeostasis an aberration or clinically relevant: A study in colorectal cancer
12:15 PM-12:30 PM Gaurav Kaithwas (BBAU Lucknow)
Alpha-linolenic acid stabilizes HIF-1 α and downregulates FASN to promote mitochondrial apoptosis for mammary gland
chemoprevention
12:30 PM-12:45 PM Chandi C Mandal (Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer)
Targeting osteoblast-like potential in cancer cells
12:45 PM-1:00 PM Chandramani Pathak (IIAR Gandhinagar)
Cellular dynamics of FADD in regulation of NLRP-3 inflammasome and cell death signaling in Cancer
1:00 PM-1:15 PM Sumit Aggarwal (ICMR New Delhi)

Session 7C (Award session-Young scientist presentation): Cancer cell signalling

Venue: Venue: Hall A (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Rahul K Singh
Chairpersons: Oommen V Oommen and Madhoolika Agrawal
11:15 AM-12:30 PM
Arunima Biswas (University of Calcutta, Kolkata): Inhibition of phosphodiesterase modulates breast cancer stem cell fate through non-
canonical activation of cAMP/PKA/mTOR
Bela Goyal (AIIMS Rishikesh): Clinical Utility of serum IL6 levels and its correlation with tumor markers in gallbladder cancer patients of
Uttarakhand region
Rashmi Gupta (IMS, BHU Varanasi):
Ritam Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur): Attribution of oxidative stress in pre-malignant and malignant oral pathophysiologies
Sadhna Aggarwal (AIIMS New Delhi): Prevalence of regulatory T (Treg) cells in oral cancer patients and effects of their inhibition on
growth of cancer cells

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1:15 PM-2:15 PM Lunch and poster session (Poster 51-100)
Session 8 (Invited talks): Cancer prevention-I
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Sanjeev K Yadav
Chairpersons: Shyam Sundar and Sukh M Singh
2:15 PM-2:55 PM Acharan S Narula (North Carolina, USA)
Inflammation, immunity and cancer: When the “Standard of Care” has been exhausted, what is next? Successful
outcomes with botanicals and natural products
2:55 PM-3:15 PM Kashi N Prasad (Apollo Hospital, Lucknow)
Helicobacter pylori infection in etiopathogenesis of gastric Cancer
Session 9 (Panel discussion): Is India ready to tackle the looming issue of cancer? How can clinical and translational cancer research help?
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
3:15 PM-4:45 PM
Rapporteur: Gyan P Modi
Moderator: Pankaj Chaturvedi (Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai)
Panelists: Vijay K Shukla, Vaskar Saha, Vinay K Puduvalli, Satyajit Pradhan, Varsha Gandhi, Bharat Aggarwal, Sen Pathak, Kapil Mehta
5:00 PM-10:00 PM Ganga Aarti, Cultural Programme and Gala-Dinner

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 Day 4: Sunday, 16 February 2020
8:00 AM-9:00 AM Registration and breakfast
Session 10 (Invited talks): Epigenetics of cancer
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Ankush Gupta
Chairpersons: Rama S Dubey and Prabhudas S Patel
9:00 AM-9:35 AM Tapas K Kundu (CDRI Lucknow)
Epigenetic regulation of oral cancer: Targets for therapeutics
9:35 AM-9:55 AM Hari S Sharma (Amsterdam, Netherland)
Perpetuated inflammation and angiogenesis in human chronic lung diseases and cancer
9:55 AM-10:15 AM Inder K Gadi (North Carolina, USA)
Snp microarray utilization for diagnosis of clinically significant changes in hematological malignancies
10:15 AM-10:35 AM Parag Mehta (Massachusetts, USA)
Higher-order therapeutic (HOT) TM drug for the treatment of head and neck cancer
10:35 AM-10:55 AM Arvind Singh Negi (CIMAP Lucknow)
Fragment based drug discovery approach: Trimethoxyphenyl as an antitubulin fragment
10:55 AM-11:15 AM Manoj K. Bhasin (Georgia, USA)
Single-cell multiomics: unraveling inflammation role in diseases and therapeutic responses, one cell at a time
11:15 AM-11:30 AM Tea Break
Session 11A (Invited talks): Cancer prevention-II
Venue: Main Hall (First Floor)
Rapporteur: Ram S Mishra
Chairpersons: Parag Mehta and Lal C Rai
11:30 AM-11:50 AM Prabhudas S Patel (GCRI Ahmedabad)
Insight into molecular mechanisms of HPV infected cervical cancer
11:50 AM-12:10 PM Anil Kumar (NII New Delhi)
Towards understanding the link between intestinal microbiota and colorectal cancer
12:10 PM-12:30 PM Jyoti P Chaudhuri (Jena, Germany)
The spatial order of chromosomes in context of cure and prevention of cancer
12:30 PM-12:50 PM Rakesh K Tyagi (JNU New Delhi)
Genomic bookmarking by nuclear receptors: a novel dimension to epigenetic control
12:50 PM-1:10 PM Junichi Fujii (Yamagata, Japan)
Prevention of diethylnitrosamine-induced hepatic injury and carcinogenesis in mice by vitamin C
1:10 PM-1:30 PM Bechan Sharma (University of Allahabad, Prayagraj)

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 The balance between the rates of incorporation and pyrophosphorolytic removal influences the HIV‐1 reverse
transcriptase bypass of an abasic site with deoxy‐, dideoxy‐, and ribonucleotides

Session 11B (Oral presentation by faculty): Diversity in oncology

Venue: Hall B (Ground Floor)
Rapporteur: Devanjan Sinha
Chairpersons: Hari S Sharma and Subash C Gupta
11:30 AM-11:40 AM Devipriya Nagarajan (SASTRA University, Thanjavur)
Investigation on role of histone deacetyltransferase (HDACS) during radiation-induced epithelial mesenchymal
transition (EMT) in epithelial cells
11:40 AM-11:50 AM Radhakrishna G Pillai (University of Calicut, Thenjipalam)
Investigations on the effectiveness of indigenous Ayurvedic medicines in the management of degenerative diseases
11:50 AM-12:00 PM Paras N Yadav (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
Anticancer potency of 5-methoxyisatin N(4)- hexamethyleneiminyl and N(4)- (2-pyridyl)piperazinyl
thiosemicarbazones in A431 cell
12:00 PM-12:10 PM Partho S Ray (IISER Kolkata)
Paracrine Signaling by Gelsolin Regulates Programmed Cell Death 4 Expression and a Density-dependent Phenotype in
Macrophages
12:10 PM-12:20 PM Pina J Trivedi (GCRI Ahmedabad)
Cytogenetic Heterogeneity in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
12:20 PM-12:30 PM Ranjana Pal (Presidency University, Kolkata)
ROS-mediated upregulation of TNFR1 is responsible for stimulation of apoptosis in theophylline treated MDA-MB-231
breast cancer cells
12:30 PM-12:40 PM Samridhi Lal (Amity University, Gurgaon)
Sustainable teaching pedagogy on cancer prevention
12:40 PM-12:50 PM Sweta Srivastava (SJMCH Bangalore)
RhoC: A navigator of cancer progression in cervical cancer
12:50 PM-1:00 PM Indranil Chattopadhyay (Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur)
Role of salivary microbiome alterations in early diagnosis and prognosis of head and neck cancer
12:50 PM-1:00 PM Arunasree M Kalle (University of Hyderabad)
Inflammation and multidrug resistance: potential use of NSAIDs in treating resistant cancers
1:30 PM-2:00 PM Valedictory function
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Lunch and departure

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