©DAEM2022. Organised by Event Troop
On behalf of the board members and the organizing committee, we would like to welcome you to join us at our 1st meeting in the Saudi Society of Oncology Research (DAEM), which will be held in Sheraton’s Hotel in Dammam, on September 1st, 2022.
Tremendous efforts have been made in the field of cancer research that impressively transformed the current therapeutic landscape of managing cancer. This is evidence of improved survival rates across different cancer subtypes. These phenomenal achievements wouldn’t have been possible without the collaborative inputs of researchers at the bed and bench sides, and this is where DAEM comes into play and can contribute.
This meeting will be the 1st meeting for the society to bring all to the table. It consists of 3 different sessions along with a poster session and a series of workshops that have been carefully selected to serve the needs of the community in the kingdom.
We are beyond grateful to all organizing members, sponsors, our guest speakers, and all attendees for being the basis of the meeting’s success.
Dr. Abdulaziz Almotlak, MS, PhD
Saudi Society for Oncology Research president
Dear colleagues
I am honored and delighted to welcome you all to the 1 st meeting of the Saudi Society for oncology
Research SSOR-2022 that going to be held during September 1-2 at Dammam, Saudi Arabia
I am highly optimistic that the scientific program of the SSOR-2022 will pave the way to gather
scientific visionaries through the inspiring and scientific talks and presentations, and will also put
forward many thought-provoking strategies for future lines of action in the area of oncology research.
This event will discuss the progress and challenges of cancer research in Saudi Arabia in the
first day. However, the workshop on the second day will cover very specialized and advanced topics
in order to improve the research methodology in the area of cancer research.
I sincerely hope that this conference will deliberate on various issues that need to be addressed in
oncology research and come up with recommendations that will lead to sustainably increasing the
oncology research studies without any obstacles.
I am looking forward to meeting all of you at SSOR-2022 to make our initiatives of disseminating
knowledge in cancer research achieves a grand success.
Dr. Kholoud Alwosaibai
Vice President and Executive Director for the Saudi Society for Oncology Research
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Poster session
9:00 am - 9:10 am
9:10 am - 9:20 am
9:20 am - 9:40 am
9:40 am - 9:55 am
9:55 am - 10:10 am
10:10 am - 10:25 am
10:25 am - 10:40 am
10:40 am - 10:50 pm
Cancer Research Challenges at KSA
10:50 am - 11:05 am
11:05 am - 11:20 am
11:20 am - 11:35 am
11:35 am - 11:50 am
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
TBA
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Understand the principles of cancer genetics that influence cancer etiology and prognosis
- Explore publicly available cancer genomic databases
- Generate secondary cancer genomic data addressing your research questions.
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Provide a brief overview of computer-aided drug design (CADD) and its role in the drug discovery and development process with a review of some successful examples of anti-cancer drug discoveries that were using computational methods.
- Discuss the main computational drug design approaches in the drug discovery process with a focus on anti-cancer drugs discovery.
- Outline up-to-date drug discovery tools and software used to perform the computational drug design strategies.
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- To list some applications of radiomics in cancer research.
- To develop a practical plan for a Radiomic Study.
- To discuss a radiomic workflow overview.
- To employ methods from image acquisition to model building.
- To choose a software to start your project.
- To discuss challenges and future directions.
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Getting started with R and RStudio
- Understand variables, loops, and data structures
- Manipulate research data structures
- Apply statistical programming and other functions
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
By the end of this lecture, participants should be able to:
- Describe the hallmarks of cancer
- Explain the complex biology of the Tumor Microenvironment (TME)
- Discuss the rationale of combination cancer therapy
- Illustrate how advanced technologies could help unravel the complex biology of cancer
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Identify basic epidemiologic observational study designs
- Recognize their basic components
- Recognize their statistical measures of association
- Understand the advantages and limitations of each study design
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Brief IRB history.
- Types of IRB reviews.
- Application process.
- Insiders tips and take home message.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Objectives: - Overview of data management - Importance of data management plan - Data collection methods and sources - Data handling, quality check and storage
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Introduction to statistics in clinical trials
- Reporting results in clinical trials
- Main concerns in statistics of clinical trials
