Preliminary agenda

3rd General Assembly

19th May 2025

Meeting venue: Visioconference room, ground floor blue wing: Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales, Campus Santé La Timone, Marseille, France (Google Maps link)

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and opening talk

Susana Puig, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB)

09:30 - 10:30 Updates on MELCAYA molecular and imaging studies (1 h)

WP1: Ines Brecht (UT) (15 min)
WP2: Heather Etchevers (AMU) (15 min)
WP3: Dario Di Gangi (UNIFI) (15 min)
WP5: Lukas Heinlein (DKFZ) (15 min)

10:30 - 12:00 Round table on pending collaborations and technical issues to complete the gathering of samples and data (1 h 30 min)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break (4th floor meeting rooms, green wing)

13:00 - 14:30 Round table on molecular analyses to still be performed (1 h 30 min)

14:30 - 15:00 Update on WP4: Retrospective analysis of the activity and efficacy of anti PD-1 antibodies in CAYA melanoma

Mario Mandala (UNIPG)

15:00 - 15:30 Update on WP6: Use of minimally and non-invasive technologies for early detection of metastasis and prognosis

Adrián López (FCRB-IDIBAPS) )
Joan Ficapal (AT)

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 16:00 Update on WP7: Health care system strategies implementation to inform policy and ethical dimension

Paula Closa (HCB)

16:00 - 17:00 Workshop on MELCAYA Policy Recommendations Outputs

Moderators: representatives from ICO, AGENAS and UCSC

All partners involved in Work Packages 1 to 6 will have an open debate to identify the potential policy recommendations resulting from their work in the MELCAYA project. The session will be held in person and participants will be split into two groups: one in primary visioconference room with online attendees, the other in the 4th floor meeting room (green wing) adjacent to the lunch and refreshments room.

17:00 - 17:30 Update on WP9: Research engagement, patient education and advocacy

Violeta Astratinei, Asociatia Melanom Romania (AMER)

17:30 - 18:00 Updates on WP8: Communication, dissemination, exploitation and networking and WP10: Project Management

Adrián López, Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica (FCRB-IDIBAPS)
Romana Hessler, SYNYO GmbH (SYNYO)

20:00 Consortium dinner