<p>Part I- Background</p><p> </p><p>1. The Path to Oncology Drug Target Validation – an Industry Perspective</p><p> </p><p>Marta Cortés-Cros, Tobias Schmelzle, Volker M. Stucke and Francesco Hofmann</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Part II- DNA as a tool to Modulate Drug Targets</p><p> </p><p>2. Identification of Aptamers as Specific Binders and Modulators of Cell-Surface Receptor Activity</p><p> </p><p>Henning Ulrich and Carsten Wrenger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>3. The Design and Structure-functional Properties of DNA-based Immunomodulatory Sequences</p><p> </p><p>Nikolai V. Kuznetsov</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Part III-RNA Interference : From Design to Data Analysis</p><p> </p><p>4. siRNA Design Principles and Off-target Effects</p><p> </p><p>Sebastian Petri and Gunter Meister</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>5. Western Blot Evaluation of siRNA Delivery by pH Responsive Peptides</p><p> </p><p>Wanling Liang, A. James Mason and Jenny K.W. Lam</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>6. High Throughput RNAi Screening for the Identification of Novel Targets</p><p> </p><p>Meredith C. Henderson and David O. Azorsa</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>7. Integration of RNAi and Small Molecule Screens to Identify Targets for Drug Development</p><p> </p><p>Konstantinos Drosopoulos and Spiros Linardopoulos</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>8. CellProfiler and KNIME: Open Source Tools for High Content Screening</p><p> </p><p>Martin Stöter, Antje Niederlein, Rico Barsacchi, Felix Meyenhofer, Holger Brandl and Marc Bickle</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>9. PARP Inhibition as a Prototype for Synthetic Lethal Screens</p><p> </p><p>Xuesong Liu</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Part IV-Protein Focused Technologies</p><p> </p><p>10. Structure-Based Target Druggability Assessment</p><p> </p><p>Jean-Yves Trosset and Nicolas Vodovar</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>11. Validating Pharmacological Disruption of Protein-protein Interactions by Acceptor Photobleaching FRET Imaging</p><p> </p><p>Janos Roszik, Gábor Tóth, János Szöllősi and György Vereb</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>12. Systematic Analysis of Complex Signal Transduction Pathways using Protein Fragment Complementation Assays</p><p> </p><p>Thomas I. Koblizek, Ann Siehoff and Anthony Pitt</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>13. Reverse-Phase Protein Microarrays and Their Utility in Drug Development</p><p> </p><p>Maria Isabella Sereni , Mariaelena Pierobon,Roberto Angioli Emanuel F. Petricoin III, and Mitchell J. Frederick</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Part V. Innovative Cell Culture Techniques to Mimic Tissue Microenvironments</p><p> </p><p>14. A Cell Culture System that Mimics Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cells Microenvironment for Drug Screening and Characterization </p><p> </p><p>Alessandro Natoni</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>15. 2-Dimensional vs. 3-Dimensional in vitro Tumor Migration and Invasion Assays</p><p> </p><p>Miriam Zimmermann, Carol Box and Suzanne A. Eccles</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>16. Tumor Spheroid-based Migration Assays for Evaluation of Therapeutic Agents</p><p> </p><p>Maria Vinci, Carol Box, Miriam Zimmermann and Suzanne A. Eccles </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>17. The NeuroSphere Assay (NSA) Applied to Neural Stem Cells (NSCs) and Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs)</p><p> </p><p>Rossella Galli</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Part VI- Genetically Engineered Animal Models to study Gene Functions</p><p> </p><p>18. Genetically Engineered Animal Models for in vivo Target Identification and Validation in Oncology</p><p>Gemma Texidó</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>19. Target Validation in Mice by Constitutive and Conditional RNAi</p><p> </p><p>Aljoscha Kleinhammer, Wolfgang Wurst, Ralf Kühn </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>20. In vivo Target Validation by Inducible RNAi in Human Xenograft Mouse Models</p><p> </p><p>Marco Mazzoletti and Gemma Texido</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Part VII- Translational Methods to validate Biomarkers</p><p> </p><p>21. Brightfield In Situ Hybridization Methods to Discover Gene Amplifications and Rearrangements in Clinical Samples</p><p> </p><p>Hiroaki Nitta and Thomas M. Grogan</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>22. Combined microRNA In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemical Detection of Protein Markers</p><p> </p><p>Boye Schnack Nielsen and Kim Holmstrøm</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Thomas I. Koblizek, Ann Siehoff and Anthony Pitt</p><p> </p><p> </p>