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Program subject to change. Last updated: 23 Oct 2026, 11:36 AM.

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Day 1 - 29 Oct 2026

17 Sessions

08:30 - 21:30

08:30 - 09:00

Other

Registration

Foyer

09:00 - 10:30

Inaugural

Inaugural Session

Main Auditorium

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
09:00 - 09:05	Welcome of Delegates	TBA
09:05 - 09:11	Lamp lighting & invocation	TBA
09:11 - 09:17	Vande Mataram	TBA
09:17 - 09:23	Welcome address- Convenors of CCI	TBA
09:23 - 09:31	About CCI 2026 — Organising Secretary's report	TBA
09:31 - 09:39	Address by the Patron	TBA
09:39 - 09:47	Addresses by the co-organising institutions	TBA
09:47 - 09:57	Address by the Guest of Honour	TBA
09:57 - 10:12	Inaugural address by the Chief Guest	TBA
10:12 - 10:17	Release of Abstract book	TBA
10:17 - 10:24	Vote of thanks	TBA
10:24 - 10:30	National Anthem	TBA

10:30 - 11:00

Keynote

Keynote Lecture I

Main Auditorium

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
10:30 - 11:00	Accelerating precision cancer therapies for rare cancers with the AI-enabled CureSeek platform	Dr. Santosh Kesari

11:00 - 11:10

Other

Group photograph

Lawn

11:10 - 11:30

Inaugural

Inauguration of the Bali Manuscript Exhibition, followed by tea

Exhibition area

11:30 - 13:10

Invited Talk

Session 1

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Dr. Gulshan Dhingra, Dr. Umesh Yadav

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
11:30 - 11:50	The ATF5-dependent mitochondrial unfolded protein response coordinates oncogenic fate	Prof. Jerry Edward Chipuk
11:50 - 12:10	Mitochondrial unfolded protein response in neuroendocrine prostate cancer	Prof. Dhyan Chandra Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA
12:10 - 12:30	Novel metabolic vulnerabilities to metastatic pancreatic cancer	Prof. Pankaj K. Singh
12:30 - 12:50	Can gut microbes guide/help us through breast cancer prevention and treatment?	Prof. Dipali Sharma
12:50 - 13:10	Targeting phospholipid scramblases and phosphatidylserine externalisation in the tumour microenvironment	Prof. Raymond Birge

13:10 - 14:00

Lunch

Dining hall

14:00 - 15:20

Invited Talk

Session 2

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Prof. Abhimanyu Jha, Dr. Ram Babu

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
14:00 - 14:20	Resistin-driven STAT3 activation and exosomal miR-143/145 link chronic psychosocial stress to aggressive breast cancer	Prof. Seema Singh
14:20 - 14:40	Cardiovascular toxicity of cancer therapy: from mechanisms to clinical care	Dr. Sivareddy Kotla
14:40 - 15:00	TAK1 drives rhabdomyosarcoma growth by sustaining stemness and blocking myogenic differentiation	Prof. Ashok Kumar
15:00 - 15:20	Title to be announced	Prof. Amit Awasthi

15:20 - 15:40

Invited Talk

Special Lecture

Main Auditorium

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
15:20 - 15:40	Medicinal Manuscripts in Bali (Indonesia)	TBA

15:40 - 16:00

Break

Tea

Foyer

16:00 - 17:20

Invited Talk

Session 3A

Hall A

Chairs: Prof. Paulraj, Dr. Bhuvnesh Kumar

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
16:00 - 16:20	Title to be announced	Prof. Dil Afroze
16:20 - 16:40	Sensing cancer, shaping precision medicine: biosensor innovations for early diagnosis	Prof. Sudha Srivastava Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
16:40 - 17:00	Targeting oncogenic p53 mutants: comprehensive study of p53-stabilising agents for breast cancer treatment	Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Mir University of Kashmir, India
17:00 - 17:20	Strategies for treatment of wastewater generated from cancer hospitals	Dr. Kashyap Kumar Dubey

16:00 - 17:15

Invited Talk

Session 3B

Hall B

Chairs: Dr. Ravi Mehrotra, Dr. Meenakshi Upreti

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
16:00 - 16:15	Epigenetic targeting of therapy resistance in female cancers: from mechanism to clinical implication	Prof. Pallavi Agarwal Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Amity University, Noida, India
16:15 - 16:30	Mitochondrial roadmap from fission to precision therapy in breast cancer	Dr. Lokendra Kumar Sharma
16:30 - 16:45	AMPKγ subunit switching in response to temozolomide-induced stress drives adaptive signalling in glioblastoma	Dr. Bhawana Bissa Central University of Rajasthan, India
16:45 - 17:00	Beyond tumour immunity: B-cell metabolic reprogramming in colorectal cancer-associated cachexia	Dr. Jyotirmaya Behera Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, IIT Delhi, India
17:00 - 17:05	Discussion	TBA
17:05 - 17:15	Access the Full Richness of Biological Complexity with Single Cell and Spatial Multiomics	Dr. Benson Lim Senior Science and Technology Advisor, Southeast Asia, 10x Genomics

17:20 - 18:40

Invited Talk

Session 4A

Hall A

Chairs: Prof. Rupesh Chaturvedi, Prof. Amit Singh

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
17:20 - 17:40	Targeting the Hippo pathway in cancers	Dr. Ramesh Kumar A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
17:40 - 18:00	MASTL at the nexus of cell-cycle control and breast cancer progression: decoding its oncogenic interactome	Dr. Gauri Misra National Institute of Biologicals, Greater Noida, India
18:00 - 18:20	3D tumour tissue analogs of H3K27M-altered DIPG: decoding tumour–stromal dynamics and drug response	Dr. Meenakshi Upreti
18:20 - 18:40	Sphingosine-1-phosphate: a crucial molecular driver of metabolic adaptation and immune escape in T-cell lymphoma	Dr. Ajay Kumar Banaras Hindu University, India

17:20 - 18:40

Invited Talk

Session 4B

Hall B

Chairs: Prof. Radheyshyam Sharma

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
17:20 - 17:35	Reprogramming antitumour immunity: targeting eEF2K signalling and engineering beneficial bacteria for cancer immunotherapy	Dr. Jugal Kishore Das
17:35 - 17:50	Melanoma cells moonlighting as phagocytes	Dr. Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal
17:50 - 18:05	EDIL3 as a novel therapeutic target to overcome vascular immune exclusion in melanoma	Dr. Saba Tabasum Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA
18:05 - 18:20	Blockade of the CXCL-3–CXCR-2 axis normalises tumour vasculature and enhances immune surveillance in triple-negative breast cancer	Dr. Suboj Babykutty Mar Ivanios College (Autonomous), Thiruvananthapuram, India
18:20 - 18:35	Integrated physics-informed and AI-driven discovery of small-molecule and de novo peptide modulators targeting CTLA-4 for cancer immunotherapy	Dr. Arun Bahadur Gurung Computational and Mathematical Biology Centre, THSTI, India
18:35 - 18:40	Discussion with the chairs	TBA

18:40 - 19:00

Other

Changeover / freshen up

Venue TBA

19:00 - 20:00

Networking

Cultural Programme

Auditorium

20:00 - 21:30

Networking

Dinner

Lawn

Day 2 - 30 Oct 2026

13 Sessions

08:30 - 21:00

08:30 - 09:00

Other

Registration

Foyer

09:00 - 09:30

Keynote

Keynote Lecture II

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Dr. B.C. Das, Dr. Rekha Puria

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
09:00 - 09:30	Bridging targeted protein degradation and antibody conjugates: the next evolution of the ADC platform	Dr. Susanta Samajdar

09:30 - 11:10

Invited Talk

Session 5

Main Auditorium

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
09:30 - 09:50	DARPP-32 is a novel regulator of M2-macrophage polarisation: sustains STAT6 phosphorylation by directly binding and inhibiting tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1	Dr. Arun K Trivedi
09:50 - 10:10	Inhibiting MCU-mediated mitochondrial calcium uptake prevents neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease	Dr. Pooja Jadiya
10:10 - 10:30	Interrogating drug-tolerant states in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma	Prof. Reshma Taneja
10:30 - 10:50	GPR56 — a regulator of alternative splicing in prostate cancer	Prof. Gargi Bagchi Bhattacharjee
10:50 - 11:10	To be announced	TBA

11:10 - 11:30

Break

Tea

Foyer

11:30 - 13:10

Invited Talk

Session 6

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Prof. Radheyshyam Sharma, Dr. Bhaswati Banerjee

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
11:30 - 11:50	Identifying regulators of macropinocytosis in pancreatic cancer	Prof. Priyabrata Mukherjee
11:50 - 12:10	Designing personalised cancer vaccine immunotherapy amidst tumour heterogeneity	Prof. Chandi C. Mandal Central University of Rajasthan, India
12:10 - 12:30	Novel NHEJ inhibitors for enhancing radiotherapy and chemotherapy	Prof. Sathees C. Raghavan
12:30 - 12:50	FLASH Radiotherapy for Abdominal Malignancies: Beyond the Stem and Stroma	Prof. Subhrajit Saha
12:50 - 13:10	Pancreatic steatosis drives neurogenesis and pancreatic cancer	Dr. Prasenjit Dey

13:10 - 15:00

Poster Presentation

Lunch & Poster Session

Poster Area

15:00 - 15:30

Keynote

Keynote Lecture III

Main Auditorium

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
15:00 - 15:30	Iron addiction as a requirement for epigenetic plasticity in cancer	Dr. Konstantin Salnikow

15:30 - 16:20

Panel Discussion

Main Auditorium

16:20 - 16:40

Break

Tea

Foyer

16:40 - 18:25

Young Researcher

Session 7A

Hall A

Chairs: Prof. Ram Sagar, Prof. Arttatrana Pal, Dr. Shakti Sahi

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
16:40 - 16:50	To be announced	TBA
16:50 - 17:00	To be announced	TBA
17:00 - 17:10	To be announced	TBA
17:10 - 17:20	To be announced	TBA
17:20 - 17:27	To be announced	TBA
17:27 - 17:34	To be announced	TBA
17:34 - 17:41	To be announced	TBA
17:41 - 17:48	To be announced	TBA
17:48 - 17:55	To be announced	TBA
17:55 - 18:02	To be announced	TBA
18:02 - 18:09	To be announced	TBA
18:09 - 18:16	To be announced	TBA
18:16 - 18:23	To be announced	TBA
18:23 - 18:25	Judges' wrap-up	TBA

16:40 - 18:20

Invited Talk

Session 7B

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Dr. Vijay Mohan, Dr. Nagendra Singh

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
16:40 - 17:00	Reactivation of PAX9 as a tumour suppressive mechanism in oral squamous cell carcinoma	Prof. Sujit K. Bhutia
17:00 - 17:20	Targeting the SETD5–EGFR axis by an isolated fraction of Withania somnifera fruit to suppress EGFR stability and temozolomide resistance in glioma cells	Dr. Ajay Kumar Yadav Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, India
17:20 - 17:40	Deciphering the KLF switch in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic potentials	Prof. Sarika Chaudhary Bennett University, India
17:40 - 18:00	Bacopaside II-mediated disruption of the NRF2–IDH1 axis mediates inhibition of glioblastoma progression via dual regulation of redox homeostasis and metabolic reprogramming	Dr. Biswarup Basu
18:00 - 18:20	A CTCF-metabolic axis reprograms co-transcriptional alternative splicing in breast cancer	Prof. Sanjeev Shukla

18:25 - 19:00

Other

Free time / transfer

Venue TBA

19:00 - 21:00

Networking

Gala Dinner

Banquet lawn

Day 3 - 31 Oct 2026

14 Sessions

07:00 - 20:35

07:00 - 07:50

Other

Coaches depart Gautam Buddha University for Shiv Nadar University

Venue TBA

Travel

07:50 - 08:40

Other

Registration & breakfast at Shiv Nadar University

Dining hall

08:40 - 09:00

Inaugural

Welcome session

Venue TBA

09:00 - 09:30

Keynote

Keynote Lecture IV

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Prof. Ravi Verma, Dr. Sorab Dalal

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
09:00 - 09:30	The importance of sex as a biological variable in cancer: impact on the glioblastoma immune response and identification of new therapeutic opportunities	Prof. Justin Lathia

09:30 - 11:10

Invited Talk

Session 8

Main Auditorium

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
09:30 - 09:50	Understanding the role of BLM in B-cell development led to determining its potential in curing B-cell malignancies	Dr. Sagar Sengupta
09:50 - 10:10	Mitochondrial mediator of venetoclax cardiotoxicity in AML	Dr. Dhanendra Tomar
10:10 - 10:30	Designing personalised cancer vaccine immunotherapy amidst tumour heterogeneity	Prof. Periasamy Selvaraj Emory University School of Medicine, USA
10:30 - 10:50	NF-κB bypasses p53-mediated inhibition of G6PD to promote pentose phosphate pathway activity in cancer	Dr. Nazir Dar University of Kashmir, India
10:50 - 11:10	Turning off the metastatic switch: targeting tissue RAS in gastric cancer	Dr. Debanjan Chakroborty

11:10 - 11:30

Break

Tea

Foyer

Group Photograph

11:30 - 12:50

Invited Talk

Session 9

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Dr. Sagar Sengupta, Dr. Nitin Bharadwaj

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
11:30 - 11:50	Integrated transcriptomic approach to decipher microRNAs, circular RNAs and long non-coding RNAs driven regulatory mechanisms in breast cancer	Dr. Virendra Singh School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi, India
11:50 - 12:10	Autophagy as a potential target in colorectal cancer	Dr. Sorab Dalal
12:10 - 12:30	Title to be announced	Dr. Anurag Varshney
12:30 - 12:50	From fat to fuel: how obesity supports breast cancer	Dr. Chandrani Sarkar

12:50 - 13:40

Lunch

Dining hall

13:40 - 15:25

Invited Talk

Session 10

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Prof. Girish Kumar, Dr. Navin Kumar

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
13:40 - 13:55	De novo rational design and precision engineering of cancer-targeted multimodal imaging contrast agents for advanced oncologic diagnostics	Dr. Samit Guha
13:55 - 14:10	Astrocyte-specific reduction of p-eIF2α restores protein synthesis and protects neuronal function in the brain tumour microenvironment	Dr. Vijendra Sharma University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
14:10 - 14:25	Overcoming therapeutic resistance in renal cell carcinoma: from c-Met–AXL crosstalk to targeted receptor degradation	Dr. Akash Sabarwal
14:25 - 14:40	Flavonoid-loaded chitosan nanoparticles as a therapeutic approach against glioblastoma	Dr. Vibhuti Joshi Bennett University, India
14:40 - 14:55	Prospective organoid drug profiling and clinical response correlation for patients with primary or recurrent ovarian carcinoma in the PROSPERITY study	Dr. Payel Chatterjee Cure First, India
14:55 - 15:10	Development of a neuroelectronic interface for detecting impaired neural networks in brain tumours	Dr. Ranjita Ghosh Moulick Amity University Haryana, India
15:10 - 15:25	Prognostic relevance of cell type-dependent Toll-like receptor 4 expression in triple-negative breast cancer	Dr. Nupur Mukherjee ICMR–National Institute for Research on Women's Health, India

15:25 - 16:35

Invited Talk

Session 11

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Dr. Imteyaz Qamar, Prof. Ashutosh Singh

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
15:25 - 15:45	BMI1: a journey from bench to the bedside	Prof. Resham Bhattacharya
15:45 - 16:05	Title to be announced	Dr. Shilpee Dutt
16:05 - 16:25	Translating focused ultrasound and nanomedicines for One-Medicine	Dr. Ashish Ranjan
16:25 - 16:35	Finer Details, Bigger Insights: The Art of Sample Preparation for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy	Dr. Indu Leica

16:35 - 16:55

Break

Tea Break

Foyer

16:55 - 18:05

Invited Talk

Session 12

Main Auditorium

Chairs: Dr. Jai Muyal, Prof. Sanjeev Galande

Time	Talk	Speaker / Presenter
16:55 - 17:15	Healing Health–Total: a digital community-to-care model for early cancer detection and patient navigation in rural Odisha	Prof. P. K. Swain 2HT Foundation, India
17:15 - 17:35	Transcriptional targeting of pancreatic cancer	Dr. Surendra Kumar Shukla
17:35 - 18:05	Epigenetic regulation of oral cancer: implications in diagnostics and therapeutics	Prof. Tapas Kumar Kundu

18:05 - 19:05

Valedictory

Valedictory Session

Main Auditorium

19:05 - 20:35

Networking

Dinner

Campus lawn