Scientific Program

Workshop Program


TimeSession / Activity
08:00 AM OnwardsRegistration
08:00 AM - 09:00 AMMEET THE PROFESSOR (Young Oncology session)
NoneRound table meeting with Trainees (Science/Oncology) - 7 round tables and 7 moderators (ISMPO YMO Young leaders)
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr. Teena Rajan, Kollam; Dr. Nihanthy Sreenath, Kolkata; Dr. Muneer A, Kollam; Dr. Barnini Ghosh, Faridabad; Dr K. Chandralekha, Chennai
ProfessorsProf. Vijay K. Kuchroo, US; Prof. Shaji K. Kumar, US; Prof. Kunle Odunsi, USA; Prof. Michael Prados, US; Dr. Srikanth Rapole, Pune; Dr. Manas Kumar Santra, Pune; Dr. Partha P. Majumder, Kalyani; Dr. Avinash Bajaj, Gurgaon; Dr. Shilpak Chatterjee, Kolkata (10 Basic Sciences students / 20 YMOs)
Faculty/DiscussantDr. Vijay Haribhakti, Mumbai; Dr. Suresh H Advani, Mumbai; Dr. Vinay Deshmane, Mumbai; Dr. Rahul Bhargava, Delhi; Dr. Ranjeet Bajpai, Mumbai; Dr. Anand Zade, Mumbai; Dr. Anil D' Cruz, Mumbai; Dr Balkrishna Padate, Mumbai; Dr. Santoshi Nagaonkara, Mumbai; Dr. Vashishth Maniar, Mumbai
09:00 AM - 10:20 AMSession 6: Immuno-Oncology in GI Cancers
Session CoordinatorDr. Shruti Gohel, Vadodara
ChairpersonsDr. Naranayankutty Warrier, Calicut; Dr. Avanish Saklani, Mumbai
09:00 AM - 09:20 AMKeynote: Neoadjuvant IO in GI cancers - How I treat in 2026 ?
SpeakerDr. T. Raja, Chennai
09:20 AM - 09:35 AMImmuno-Oncology in Colorectal Cancer -How I treat in 2026 ?
SpeakerDr. Anant Ramaswamy, Mumbai
09:35 AM - 10:05 AMPanel Discussion: Multidisciplinary Board On GI Cancers (Hepato-Biliary)
ModeratorDr. TP Sahoo, Bhopal
PanelistsDr. M Vamshi Krishna, Hyderabad; Dr. Ashu Abhishek, Chennai; Dr. Sudeepta Kumar Swain, Chennai; Dr. Arun Warrier, Kochi; Dr. Rahul Krishnatry, Mumbai; Dr. Ganesh Nagarajan, Mumbai; Dr. S. Nithya, Chennai; Dr. MV Chandrakanth, Kolkata
10:05 AM - 10:15 AMBest Clinical Abstracts on GI Cancers (2)
10:15 AM - 10:20 AMQ and A (YMO Activity) - 2 Trainees and open house
10:20 AM - 10:40 AMTEA BREAK
10:40 AM - 12:00 PMSession 7: Precision Medicine Oncology In Immuno-Oncology
Session CoordinatorDr. Teena Rajan, Kollam
ChairpersonsDr. Harit Chaturvedi, Delhi; Dr. P.N. Sathiyamoorthy, Āvadi; Dr. J Kannan, Chennai
10:40 AM - 11:00 AMKeynote Talk: Basic Immunology in Precision Oncology in 2026
SpeakerDr. Partha P. Majumder, Kalyani
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMArtificial Intelligence in Oncology: What to expect in 2026?
SpeakerDr. Purvish Parikh, Mumbai
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMAI-based Molecular Tumor Board: New standard in 2026?
SpeakerDr. Arun Seshachalam, Trichy
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMPanel Discussion: Multidisciplinary Board On Precision Oncology
ModeratorDr. Jyoti Bajpai, Mumbai
PanelistsDr. Vijay Agarwal, Bengaluru; Dr. Vashishth Maniar, Mumbai; Dr. Sachin Trivedi, Mumbai; Dr. Rejiv Rajendranath, Chennai; Dr. Gowhar Shafi, Pune; Dr. Rakesh Reddy Boya, Vizag; Dr. Rahul Bhargav, Delhi; Dr. Tanweer Shahid, Kolkata; Dr. Anita Ramesh, Chennai; Dr. Alec Correa, Chennai
12:00 PM - 01:00 PMI-OSI ANNUAL ORATION
ChairpersonsDr. Rakesh Jalali, Chennai (President I-OSI); Dr. Jyoti Bajpai, Mumbai (General Secretary I-OSI); Dr. TS Ganeshan, Chennai
TopicTBA
OraterProf. Kunle Odunsi, Chicago, USA
01:00 PM - 02:00 PMLUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
02:00 PM - 03:25 PMSession 8: Immuno-Oncology In Cancers in Women
Session CoordinatorDr. Nihanthy Sreenath, Kolkata
ChairpersonsDr. Leela Digumarti, Hyderabad; Dr. Vijay Haribhakti, Mumbai; Dr. Sankar Srinivas, Chennai
02:00 PM - 02:20 PMKeynote: IO in Breast Cancers- How I treat in 2026?
SpeakerDr. B K Smruti, Mumbai
02:20 PM - 02:35 PMIO in Gynecological Cancers- How I treat in 2026?
SpeakerDr. Deepa Susan, Vellore
02:35 PM - 03:05 PMPanel Discussion: Multidisciplinary Board On Cancers in Women
ModeratorDr. Amit Rauthan, Bengaluru
PanelistsDr. Vinay Deshmane, Mumbai; Dr. Ranjeet Bajpai, Mumbai; Dr. Ajeet Kumar Gandhi, Lucknow; Dr. Reetu Jain, Mumbai; Dr. Sapna Nangia, Chennai; Dr. Swaratika Majumdar, Bengaluru; Dr. Seema Gulia, Mohali; Dr. Somashekhar S P, Bengaluru; Dr. Mukta Mahajan, Chennai
03:05 PM - 03:15 PMBest Clinical Abstracts on Cancers in Women
03:15 PM - 04:00 PMSession 9: Immuno-Oncology in GU Cancers
Session CoordinatorDr. Kunal Jobanputra, Mumbai
ChairpersonsDr. N. Raghavan, Chennai; Dr. Umesh M Mahantshetty, Visakhapatnam; Dr. Anand Raja, Chennai
03:15 PM- 03:35 PMKeynote: Multidisciplinary Care in Uro-Oncology-Changing Paradigms
SpeakerDr. Vedang Murthy, Mumbai
03:35 PM - 04:00 PMPanel Discussion: Multidisciplinary Tumor Board On GU Cancers
ModeratorDr. Krishnakumar Rathnam, Madurai
PanelistsDr. V Kannan, Mumbai; Dr. Nikhil S Ghadyalpatil, Hyderabad; Dr. Priyamvada Maitre, Mumbai; Dr. Anand Zade, Mumbai; Dr. Srivathsan R, Chennai; Dr. Santoshi Nagaonkara, Mumbai; Dr. Mounika Boppana, Hyderabad; Dr. Ashwin Tamhankar, Mumbai; Dr. Sudeep Das, Kolkata
04:00 PM - 04:30 PMHIGHLIGHT SESSION FIRESIDE CHAT- GLOBAL ONCOLOGY
ModeratorDr. Rakesh Jalali, Chennai
ExpertsDr. Nagraj Huilgol, Mumbai; Dr. Vinay Deshmane, Mumbai; Dr. Nitesh Rohatgi, Delhi; Dr. Jyoti Wadhwa, Delhi
04:30 PM - 04:45 PMTEA BREAK
04:45 PM - 07:15 PMSession 10: Global Oncology and Immuno-Oncology
Session CoordinatorDr. Muneer A, Kollam
ChairpersonsDr. GK Rath, Delhi; Dr. Dinesh Pendharkar, Delhi; Dr. Vineet Talwar, Delhi
04:45 PM - 05:05 PMKeynote: IO in LMIC: Impact in Clinical Practice
SpeakerDr. Atul Sharma, Delhi
05:05 PM- 05:20 PMLow Dose Immunotherapy- The Way forward
SpeakerDr. Amol Patel, Nashik
05:20 PM - 05:35 PMChallenges in Basic Research in Immuno-Oncology in LMIC
SpeakerDr. Jyoti Kode, Mumbai
05:35 PM - 06:05 PMPanel Discussion: IO in Global Oncology
ModeratorDr. Aju Mathew, Kochi
PanelistsDr. Vinayak V Maka, Bengaluru; Dr. Anjana Joel, Vellore; Dr. Narmadha Rathinasamy, Coimbatore; Dr. Amit Dutt, Delhi; Dr. Arunangshu Das, Bangladesh; Dr. A J Hilmi, Srilanka; Dr. Leena Gupta, Itanagar; Dr. Yashwant Kashyap, Raipur; Dr. Soumya Surath Panda, Bhubhaneshwar
ChairpersonsDr. Vikram Mathew, Vellore; Dr. Hari Menon, Bengaluru
06:05 PM - 06:45 PMAdvances in Management of Newly Diagnosed DLBCL (Hemat Oncology)
SpeakerDr Matthew Matasar, Canada
06:45 PM - 07:15 PMPanel discussion: Challenges and gaps between Basic and Clinical Research in Immuno-Oncology
ModeratorDr. Chetan Dhamne, Mumbai
PanelistsDr. Gaurav Narula, Mumbai; Dr. Amit Awasthi, Gurgaon; Dr. Santosh Chauhan, Hyderabad; Dr. Ajeet Kumar Gandhi, Lucknow; Dr. Pankaj Panda, Chennai; Dr. Pritam Kataria, Mumbai; Dr. Ram Madhavan, Chennai
07:15 PM - 08.00 PMIOSI General Body Meeting (GBM)
08.00 PM GALA DINNER
TimeSession / Activity
07:30 AM - 08:30 AMExecutive Committee Meeting I-OSI
09:00 AM - 10:10 AMSession B3: Basic Sciences
ChairpersonsDr. Santosh Chouhan, Hyderabad; Dr. Vani Janakiraman, Chennai; Dr. Chetan Dhamne, Mumbai
09:00 AM - 09:15 AMTBA
SpeakerDr. Amit Awasthi, Gurgaon, (THSTI)
09:15 AM - 09:30 AMTBA
SpeakerDr. Shilpak Chatterjee, IICB, Kolkata
09:30 AM - 09:45 AMleveraging fundamental T cell biology for cancer immunotherapy"
SpeakerDr. Sudha Kumari, Bengaluru
09:45 AM - 10:00 AMTBA
SpeakerDr. Prakriti Tayalia, Mumbai
10:00 AM - 10:10 AMQ & A (Discussion)
10.20 AM - 10.40 AMTEA BREAK
02.00 PM - 03.40 PMSession B4: Basic Sciences
ChairpersonsDr. Shilpak Chatterjee, Kolkata; Dr. Sudha Kumari, Bengaluru
02:00 PM - 02:15 PMRational Design of Combination Therapy for CRC: Multi-Omics Insights into Galunisertib and TAS-102 Synergy
SpeakerDr. Sumit Hira, Bardhaman
02:15 PM - 02:30 PMTBA
SpeakerDr. Harikumar K.B., Thiruvananthapuram
02:30 PM - 02:45 PMTBA
SpeakerDr. Ujjaini Dasgupta, Sonipat
02:45 PM - 3:00 PMTBA
SpeakerDr. Sunil Martin, Thiruvananthapuram
03:00 PM - 03:10 PMBest Basic Sciences Abstract
03:10 PM - 03:20 PMBest Basic Sciences Abstract
03:20 PM - 03:30 PMBest Basic Sciences Abstract
03:30 PM - 03:40 PMQ & A (Discussion)
04:30 PM - 04:45 PMTEA BREAK
04:45 PM - 05:15 PMSession B5: YOUTH TALENT TIME (ONCOLOGY AND BASIC SCIENCE)
ChairpersonsDr. Stalin Chowdary Bala, Vizag; Dr. Deepa Susan, Vellore
Session CoordinatorsDr. Shruti Gohel, Vadodara; Dr. Ashvin Jeberson Pauk, Kanyakumari
08.00 PM GALA DINNER