Scientific Program

Workshop Program


TimeSession / Activity
08:00 AM OnwardsRegistration
08:00 AM - 09:00 AMSESSION 6: Clinics Vs Lab - Meet the Professors (Young Medical Oncology session)
"Round table meeting with Trainees (Science/Oncology) - 6 round tables and 6 moderators (ISMPO YMO Young leaders)"
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr. Teena Rajan
Professors Table - 1Dr Kunle Odunsi; Dr. Raghunadharao Digumarti; Dr. Harit Chaturvedi; Dr. Srikanth Rapole; Dr. Chetan Dhamne
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr. Barnini Ghosh
Professors Table - 2Dr. Herbert Loong; Dr. Padmaj Kulkarni; Dr. GK Rath; Dr. Manas Kumar Santra; Dr. Punit Prashad
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr. Muneer Khalam
Professors Table - 3Dr. Vijay K. Kuchroo; Dr. V Kannan; Dr Vinay Deshmane; Dr. Avinash Bajaj, Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr Chandralekha
Professors Table - 4Dr. Anil D' Cruz; Dr Vedang Murthy; Dr. Rahul Bhargava; Dr. Partha P. Majumder; Dr. Arun Warrier
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr. Ashwin Paul
Professors Table - 5Dr. Purvish Parikh; Dr. Vinayak V Maka; Dr Nagraj Huilgol; Dr. Ujjaini Dasgupta; Dr. Anant Ramaswamy
Session Coordinators (YMO):Dr Shruti Gohel
Professors Table - 5Dr Vijay Haribhakti; Dr. Narayanankutty Warrier; Dr. Reetu Jain; Dr. Santosh Chauhan; Dr. Deepa Susan Joy Philip
09:00 AM - 10:20 AMSession 7: Immuno-Oncology in GI Cancers
Session CoordinatorDr. Shruti Gohel, Vadodara; Dr. K. Chandralekha, Chennai
ChairpersonsDr. Naranayankutty Warrier, Calicut; Dr. Shripad D. Banavali, Mumbai; Dr. Ramesh Nimmagadda, Chennai
09:00 AM - 09:20 AMI-OSI KEYNOTE 4
TopicNeoadjuvant 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 - 09:50 AMRationale to Practice: Tislelizumab in Esophageal Carcinoma
SpeakerDr. Amit Rauthan, Bengaluru
09:50 AM - 10:20 AMPanel Discussion:Immuno-Oncology in Hepatobiliary Cancers"
ModeratorDr. TP Sahoo, Bhopal
PanelistsDr. 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. Sandeep Ishi, Mumbai; Dr. Mohit Sharma, Delhi; Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma, Jaipur
10:20 AM - 10:30 AMMy Questions (Young Medical Oncology)
10:30 AM - 10:40 AMTEA BREAK
10:40 AM - 12:20 PMSession 8: Precision Medicine Oncology In Immuno-Oncology
Session CoordinatorDr. Teena Rajan, Kollam; Dr. K. Chandralekha, Chennai
ChairpersonsDr. Harit Chaturvedi, Delhi; Dr. P.N. Sathiyamoorthy, Āvadi; Dr. V. Subramanian, Chennai
10:40 AM - 11:00 AMI-OSI KEYNOTE 5
TopicT-cell manipulation and cancer therapy
SpeakerDr. Suresh H Advani, Mumbai
11:00 AM - 11:20AMI-OSI KEYNOTE 6
TopicEvidence that a Large Fraction of Oral Cancer Patients May Respond to Immune Checkpoint Therapy
SpeakerDr. Partha P. Majumder, Kalyani
11:20 AM - 11:35 AMArtificial Intelligence in Oncology: What to expect in 2026?
SpeakerDr. Purvish Parikh, Mumbai
11:35 AM - 11:50 AMAI-based Molecular Tumor Board: New standard in 2026?
SpeakerDr. Arun Seshachalam, Trichy
11:50 AM - 12:20 AMPanel Discussion: Multidisciplinary Board On Precision Oncology
ModeratorDr. Jyoti Bajpai, Mumbai
PanelistsDr. Vijay Agarwal, Bengaluru; Dr. Vashishth Maniar, Mumbai; Dr. Rejiv Rajendranath, Chennai; Dr. Gowhar Shafi, Pune; Dr. Rahul Bhargav, Delhi; Dr. Tanweer Shahid, Kolkata; Dr. Alec Correa, Chennai
12:20 PM - 12:30 PMMy Questions (Young Medical Oncology)
12:30 PM - 01:15 PMI-OSI ANNUAL ORATION
ChairpersonsDr. Rakesh Jalali, Chennai (President I-OSI); Dr. Jyoti Bajpai, Mumbai (General Secretary I-OSI); Dr. TS Ganeshan, Chennai
TopicReprograming the tumor microenvironment and T cells to overcome immune resistance in ovarian cancer
OraterDr. Kunle Odunsi, Chicago, USA
01:15 PM - 02:00 PMLUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
02:00 PM - 03:25 PMSession 9: Immuno-Oncology In Cancers in Women
Session CoordinatorDr. Muneer Khalam, Kollam; Dr. Ashwin Paul, Kanyakumari
Chairpersons Dr. Vijay Haribhakti, Mumbai; Dr. Sankar Srinivas, Chennai; Dr. Ramesh Nimmagadda, Chennai
02:00 PM - 02:20 PMI-OSI KEYNOTE 7
TopicIO 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 Joy Philip, 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. Mukta Mahajan, Chennai; Dr. Lalit Mohan Sharma, Jaipur
03:05 PM - 03:15 PMMy Questions (Young Medical Oncology)
03:15 PM - 04:05 PMSession 10: Immuno-Oncology in GU Cancers
Session CoordinatorDr. Shruti Gohel, Vadodara; Dr. K. Chandralekha, Chennai
ChairpersonsDr. N. Raghavan, Chennai; Dr. Umesh M Mahantshetty, Visakhapatnam; Dr. Tejinder Kataria, Delhi
03:15 PM- 03:35 PMI-OSI KEYNOTE 8
TopicMultidisciplinary Care in Uro-Oncology-Changing Paradigms
SpeakerDr. Vedang Murthy, Mumbai
03:35 PM - 04:05 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
04:05 PM - 04:15 PMMy Questions (Young Medical Oncology)
04:15 PM - 04:45 PMHIGHLIGHT SESSION FIRESIDE CHAT- GLOBAL ONCOLOGY
ModeratorDr. Rakesh Jalali, Chennai
ExpertsDr. Nagraj Huilgol, Mumbai; Dr. Vinay Deshmane, Mumbai; Dr. Jyoti Wadhwa, Delhi
04:45 PM - 04:55 PMTEA BREAK
04:55 PM - 06:15 PMSession 11: Global Oncology and Immuno-Oncology
Session CoordinatorDr. Barnini Ghosh, Kolkata; Dr. Teena Rajan, Kollam
ChairpersonsDr. GK Rath, Delhi; Dr. Vineet Talwar, Delhi; Dr. Subhash Gupta, Delhi
04:55 PM - 05:15 PMI-OSI KEYNOTE 9
TopicIO in LMIC: Impact in Clinical Practice
SpeakerDr. Atul Sharma, Delhi
05:15 PM - 05:30 PMLow Dose Immunotherapy- The Way forward
SpeakerDr. Amol Patel, Delhi
05:30 PM - 05:45 PMChallenges in Basic Research in Immuno-Oncology in LMIC
SpeakerDr. Jyoti Kode, Mumbai
05:45 PM - 06:15 PMPanel Discussion: IO in Global Oncology
ModeratorDr. Aju Mathew, Kochi
PanelistsDr. Vinayak V Maka, Bengaluru; Dr. Anjana Joel, Vellore; Dr. Narmadha Rathinasamy, Coimbatore; Dr. Leena Gupta, Itanagar; Dr. Yashwant Kashyap, Raipur; Dr. Soumya Surath Panda, Bhubhaneshwar; Dr. Abhishek Charan, Jaipur; Dr. Anita Ramesh, Chennai
06:15 PM - 06:25 PMMy Questions (Young Medical Oncology)
06:30 PM - 07:40 PMSession 12: Immuno-Oncology: From Lab to Clinic
ChairpersonsDr. Jose Easow, Chennai; Dr. Biju George, Vellore; Dr. Anita Ramesh, Chennai
06:30 PM - 07:10 PMAdvances in Management of Newly Diagnosed DLBCL (Hemat Oncology)
SpeakerDr. Matthew Matasar, Canada
07:10 PM - 07:40 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. Ram Madhavan, Chennai; Dr. Manas Kumar Santra, Pune; Dr. Hridayesh Prakash, Noida; Dr. Vijay M Patil, Mumbai
07:30PM - 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 Chauhan, Hyderabad; Dr. Vani Janakiraman, Chennai; Dr. Chetan Dhamne, Mumbai
09:00 AM - 09:15 AMEmerging roles of microbiota in cancer immunotherapy
SpeakerDr. Amit Awasthi, Gurgaon, (THSTI)
09:15 AM - 09:30 AMTrajectories of immuno-genomic evolution in Indian oral cancer patients.
SpeakerDr. Nidhan K. Biswas, Kalyani
09:30 AM - 09:45 AMleveraging fundamental T cell biology for cancer immunotherapy"
SpeakerDr. Sudha Kumari, Bengaluru
09:45 AM - 10:00 AMAcellular cancer immunotherapy - CAR-T and CAR-M
SpeakerDr. Prakriti Tayalia, Mumbai
10:00 AM - 10:10 AMQ & A
10.20 AM - 10.40 AMTEA BREAK
02.00 PM - 03.40 PMSession B4: Basic Sciences
ChairpersonsDr. Nidhan K. Biswas, Kalyani; 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 PMSphingolipid metabolites confer immunotherapy resistance in colorectal cancer
SpeakerDr. Rakesh Kumar Majhi, Kanpur
02:30 PM - 02:45 PMLipid Metabolism as a key Modulator of Tumour Microenvironment in Breast Cancer
SpeakerDr. Ujjaini Dasgupta, Sonipat
02:45 PM - 3:00 PMConfiguring Chimeric Antigen Receptors for safety and efficacy
SpeakerDr. Sunil Martin, Thiruvananthapuram
03:00 PM - 03:15 PMThe Molecular Roots of T Cell Exhaustion in Cancer Immunotherapy Resistance
SpeakerDr. Shilpak Chatterjee, Kolkata
03:15 PM - 03:25 PMPROFFERED PAPERS BASIC SCIENCES - 7 mins (5+2) (3 ABSTRACTS)
TopicA Novel Humanized BCMA CAR-T Cell Therapy with Improved Durable Activity and Low Toxicity for Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
Presenter Dr. Aalia N. Khan
TopicMulti-omics brain tumor microenvironment interrogation identifies anti-tumor phagocytic modulators
Presenter Dr. Pravesh Gupta
TopicImmune evasion in advanced high grade serous ovarian cancer: did we miss the timing? A gene expression meta-analysis
Presenter Dr. Durga Prasan
03:25 PM - 03:40 PMQ & A (Discussion)
05:00 PM - 06:00 PMSession B3: ISMPO YMO YOUNG ONCOLOGY MEET
ChairpersonsDr. Raghunadharao Digumarti, Vizag; Dr. Padmaj Kulkarni, Pune, Dr. Stalin Chowdary Bala, Vizag; Dr. Deepa Susan Joy Philip, Vellore
05:00 PM - 05:30 PMSelection of Young Leaders Batch 2026
05:30 PM - 06:00 PMOpen House
08.00 PM GALA DINNER