PDBEB Courses 2025/2026 - Lifestyles, Cancer and Immunometabolism

Aim

• Deepen core immunology and tumor immune-microenvironment knowledge
• Recognize the connections between lifestyle factors (diet, microbiota, exercise, stress) and immune function in cancer.
• Understand key immune and metabolic pathways underlying lifestyle cancer reprogramming.
• Explore and understand advanced therapies and innovative approaches in cancer treatment, with a focus on immunotherapy and other cutting-edge therapies (e.g., cell reprogramming, CAR-T cells, NK cells, oncolytic viruses, radiopharmaceuticals).
• Strengthen theory-to-practice skills through visits to state-of-the-art facilities, guided hands-on lab demonstrations, and basic data interpretation (e.g., immune-cell handling, flow cytometry workflows).
• Gain insight into how preclinical findings become clinical-grade products via GMP processes and early-phase trial pathways.
• Use  AI tools responsibly and creatively to ideate, structure, and draft scientific mini-projects in cancer immunology.
• Enable teamwork and peer learning through guided brainstorming, promoting brainstorming, networking, and group project development.