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Dr Ana Đurić and Dr Milena Čavić participated in the EU Week of Opportunities on Sept 23, 2024, organized in three cities in Serbia, Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad. It was a special opportunity to depict a wide range of opportunities offered by the EU in Serbia. The event was organized in cooperation with numerous ministries of the Government of Serbia and included physical and online activities, presentations, discussions and info sessions. An innovative feature of the event was the use of the metaverse platform for live broadcasts and interactive engagements with partners. The main topics were the economy, business, innovation, education, sports, culture, media, civil sector, local development, energy, environmental protection, cross-border cooperation and agriculture.

STEPUPIORS participants were especially interested in topics on Digital Europe, Business Incubator, Horizon Europe programs, Investment Framework for the Western Balkans, European Innovation Council programs, EU for the Green Agenda and Policy Answer – policy dialogue that includes formal meetings, monitoring and setting the agenda, building capacities and implementation of the EU agenda for the Western Balkans. These aspects are of high importance for the sustainability and long-term effects of the implementation of translational projects in the field of oncology.

Liquid Biopsy Summer School organized by the STEPUPIORS Horizon Europe project (Project ID 101079217) will be hosted by Prof. Evi Lianidou at the ACTC Lab, Dept. of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with Dr Remond Fijneman from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the Hellenic Society of Liquid Biopsy.  The summer school will cover topics on the latest advancements and application of liquid biopsy technologies in clinical and translational oncology. Online streaming of lectures on Sept 30 and Oct 04, 2024, will be made freely available, with pre-registration.

STEPUPIORS SUMMER SCHOOL “LIQUID BIOPSY TECHNOLOGIES”
Sept 30 – Oct 04, 2024, Athens, Greece
PROGRAM

STEPUPIORS PI from BRFAA Dr Ieronymos Zoidakis visited IORS on June 07, 2024, for a second regular expert partner visit. During the visit, Dr Zoidakis got acquainted with the newly acquired equipment and biobanking facilities of the Department of Experimental Oncology. The visit was hosted by Dr Ana Đurić, Dr Marko Radulović and Aleksandra Stanojević.

Dr Zoidakis discussed on the available infrastructure and equipment important for successful activities within WP2, with a focus on the first Luminex® MAGPIX® system in Serbia that was donated to IORS by STEPUPIORS’ stakeholder company Novos d.o.o. This excellent example of collaboration between academia and industry will enable IORS to try out a simple, cost-effective medium throughput multiplexing of Merck MILLIPLEX® immunoassays on plasma samples of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. Profiling of predictive biomarkers for the purpose of selection of patients who might benefit from the watch and wait approach enabling their higher quality of life will be performed as a part of project activities in WP2. Validation of the results is planned on prospectively collected samples from the first Serbian rectal cancer biobank in 2025.

Dr Zoidakis also participated as a chair and speaker at the VII Symposium of the Serbian Protomics Society (SEPA) “Proteomics Application in Biomedicine” held at the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgrade on June 06, 2024.

As part of the continuous cooperation of project participants with relevant stakeholders, STEPUPIORS coordinator Milena Cavic participated as a panelist in the session “How to write and win a scientific grant”, at the Roche Serbia RISE educational academy.

The goal of the Academy was to empower young doctors from Serbia and Montenegro with skills essential for a successful engagement in the modern healthcare system, focusing on three key areas: science, development of leadership skills and understanding of digital management in healthcare.

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