Course Overview

OBJECTIVES 
Gaining knowledge and analytical expertise related to the role of the
immune system in cancer developpment, to the reciprocal interactions
between the immune system and developing cancers, and on the bases of
immune-based interventions (cancer immunotherapies) and their
limits.Develop writing and oral communication skills through the
presentation and discussion of primary research articles and through
grant-type mini-proposal conception writing and oral defense.

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

- Cancer immunoediting: mechanisms responsible for cancer
immunosurveillance (bases of antitumor immune responses) and
conversely, for cancer escape from immune detection and elimination
(immunosuppression and immunosubversion). Analysis of the factors
affecting the balance between anti-cancer immunity and cancer immune
evasion, using trans-disciplinary approaches.
- Bases of cancer immunotherapies, the successes, limits and current
problems associated these therapeutic approaches. Combination
therapies (chimio-immunotherapies, radio-chimioimmunotherapies…) 
- Role of the immune system in cancer invasion and metastatic
dissemination. 
- Team work and cooperative research work through the conception of a
mini-research project (identification of a scientific question in the
field, building of a hypothesis and elaboration of a research plan and
methodology to address the proposed hypothesis).

Course type

- Theoretical lectures - 20 hours  - Tutorial classes - 16 hours  - Laboratory courses - 20 hours

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

Language of instruction: English

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