Duration
10h Th, 10h SEM
Number of credits
| Master in biomedicine (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The different notions studied are listed above:
- Description of the immune response against tumours (innate and adaptive anti-tumoural immunity)
- Description of tumour immuno-escape mechanisms: non-recognition of the tumour by the immune system and tumour inhibitory effects on the immune system
- Immunotherapy of tumours: antibodies directed against tumour, cytokines and immune cells, anti-tumoral vaccines
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The goal of this course is to train the student to be able to understand the progress in tumour immunity and new immunotherapeutic approaches to treat cancer. This learning is based on:
- The knowledge and understanding of the principal immune system mechanism of action against tumour development
- The knowledge and understanding of the principal immuno-escape mechanisms of cancer cells
- The knowledge and understanding of immunotherapeutic protocols used to fight cancer
- Critical analysis of scientific papers concerning tumour immunity
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Basic immunology course
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The course is divided in 10 lessons (2 hours):
- The first lesson is done jointly with the Vaccine course on Basic Immunology recalls (quiz).
- The next 6 lessons are face-to-face lessons dedicated to the different parts of the Tumour Immunology course
- Fellow up by 3 seminars devoted to student presentations of scientific papers related to the previous lessons.
Recommended or required readings
Powerpoint presentations will be posted on "eCampus" after the lesson
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam (50%) scientific paper presentation (40%) and seminar participation (10%)
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Nathalie Jacobs
Cellular et molecular immunology - Virology
CHU B34 (GIGA) +5
Tel: +32 4 366 2420
n.jacobs@uliege.be
www.giga.ulg.ac.be/lcmi