Scientific Program (preliminary)

Please find here the preliminary scientific program for the 2024 ESVONC congress in Bucharest. 

There will be no live streaming.  

The Nurses program on Friday 24th & Saturday 25th May is visible under the separate tab in the top menu.

 

VETERINARIANS' PROGRAM

The Grand Hotel Bucharest will be the venue for the 2024 ESVONC Congress.

 

Wednesday 22nd May - Residents' Workshop

Residents' Workshop
15.00-15.45 Making the grade: A review of tumor grading systems in veterinary onco-pathology for common to rare tumor types  Giancarlo Avallone 
15.45-16.30 Going above and beyond: How may an individual patient's tumor be analyzed and reported in the future? Is there such a thing as personalized pathology? Giancarlo Avallone 
16.30-17.00 COFFEE BREAK  
17.00-17.45 Targeted therapies and iNKT cells: Innovative Engineering in Human and Canine Immunotherapy to meet Ever-Emerging Challenges in Cancer Care  Nicola Mason
17.45-18.15 Targeted therapies in Cancer Management: Monoclonal antibodies and checkpoint inhibition harness immune power to eliminate cancer Nicola Mason

 

Thursday 23rd May - Main program

08.00-09.00 REGISTRATION OPENS  
08.45-09.00 Welcome ESVONC to Bucharest! Anca Cristea

RADIATION THERAPY
Session supported by Varian Medical Systems

09.00-09.30 Introduction and General Principles and Limitations about abdominal RT Valerie Poirier
09.30-10.15 Abdominal SBRT and hypofractionation in humans – possible implications for animal radiotherapy Nuno Pimentel MD
10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK  
10.45-11.15 Abdominal RT in veterinary practice : genito-urinary and other indications Michael Nolan
11.15-11.45 ASAC the Zurich Experience  Carla Rohrer 
11.45 - 12.15

PANEL DISCUSSION chaired by Dr Valerie Poirier

All speakers
12.15-14.15 Lunch & Poster Session  
14.15-14.45

Sponsored talk by Varian (TBC)

 
Resident Abstracts
15.00-15.15    
15.15-15.30    
15.30-15.45    
15.45-16.00    
16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK  
General Abstracts
16.30-16.45    
16.45-17.00    
17.00-17.15    
17.15-17.30    
17.30-18.00

ESVONC RESEARCH FUND PRESENTATION

ESVONC CRF Committee
19.00-21.00

Welcome Reception in Bucharest!

venue: PALACE OF THE PARLIAMENT (Izvor street, no. 2-4)

kindly sponsored by

 Hill's Pet Nutrition & Varian Medical Systems

    

 

 

Friday 24th May - Main Program

08.00-09.00

REGISTRATION

Breakfast round table DeepscanDx (TBC)

 
TARGETED THERAPIES
09.00-09.45 Comparative approaches to improve efficacy and availability of adoptive cell therapies for canine cancer patients Nicola Mason
09.45-10.30 The hunt for correlative biomarkers of immunotherapeutic response - knowing who will respond before treatment Nicola Mason
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK  
11.00-11.45 Checkpoint inhibitors (title TBC) David Vail
11.45-12.30 Novel anti-metastatic treatments (title TBC) David Vail
12.30-13.00 PANEL DISCUSSION All speakers
13.00-14.30 Lunch  
13.00-14.30

Radiation Oncology Specialty Seminar (for ECVDI RO and ECVIM RO only): 

Machine and Patient-Specific Quality Control in Radiotherapy: Technical and Physical Aspects, and Impact on Daily Clinical Practice and Complication-Free Tumor Control

Sergejs Unterkirhers
Resident Abstracts
14.30-14.45    
14.45-15.00    
15.00-15.15    
15.15-15.30    
15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK  
16.00-16.30

SPONSORED TALK by CanCan Diagnostics

 
General Abstracts
16.30-16.45    
16.45-17.00    
17.00-17.15    
17.15-17.30    
18.00-... Evening on your own!  

 

Saturday 25th May - Main Program

08.00-09.00 REGISTRATION  
Artificial Intelligence Lectures
09.00-09.45 Artificial Intelligence: What is AI? And what is its current and future relevance to human and veterinary biomedical sciences? Kevin Wells
09.45-10.30

Artificial Intelligence: Optimizing the relevance and use of AI in veterinary oncology from tumor grading to staging and therapeutic planning.

AI and the future of veterinary pathology: Tumor grading in the pre- and post-machine learning era: Will 'bots' help to save our patients?

Kevin Wells
10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK  
11.00-11.45 Radiology (title TBC) Tomasso Banzato
11.45-12.30 Radiation Oncology (title TBC) Michael Nolan
12.30-13.00 PANEL DISCUSSION chaired by Dr Nicola Mason All speakers
13.00-15.00 Lunch  
     
14.00-15.00 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) ESVONC members
15.00-15.30

SPONSORED TALK by DeepscanDx (title TBC)

 
Resident Abstracts
15.30-15.45    
15.45-16.00    
16.00-16.15 Looking forward to 2025 ESVONC @ PORTO Presentation  
16.15-16.45 COFFEE BREAK  
General Abstracts
16.45-17.00    
17.00-17.15    
17.15-17.30    
17.30-17.45    
17.45-18.00    
20.00-...

ESVONC's GALA DINNER

venue: LINEA / CLOSER TO THE MOON

kindly sponsored by