Detailed Programme - 17 June 2025

Time	Session

08:30 09:15	Thermo Fisher Scientific: Advancing Cancer Research through Innovations in Spatial Proteomics and Imaging Technologies Navigating Challenges in Spatial Proteomics from an Imaging Core facility Spatial Proteomics: Transforming Our Understanding of Cancer Biology Introduction to the Invitrogen™ EVOS™ S1000 Spatial Imaging System Questions and Answers Auditorium 2		Bruker Cellular Analysis: Experience Live Single-Cell Functional Insights with Beacon Discovery for Oncology & Immunotherapy Research Experience Live Single-Cell Functional Insights with Beacon Discovery for Oncology & Immunotherapy Research SantosTiago Industry Speaker United States ZhangYan Industry Speaker United States Auditorium 6+7		Meet the Expert - Interactive Session LianidouEvi Moderator Greece Multi-Omic Profiling for Precision Pediatric Cancer Diagnosis MardisElaine R. Speaker United States TDiagnosis of MDS from peripheral blood ShlushLiran I. Speaker Israel Discussion with the Experts Career Discovery Area
09:20 10:55	Symposium: Next-generation Immunotherapy Modalities CohenMerav Co-Chair Israel SamuelsYardena Co-Chair Israel Engineered dendritic cell therapy De PalmaMichele Speaker Switzerland Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Exploiting immune surveillance to target colorectal cancer BardelliAlberto Speaker Italy Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Translation Dysregulation In Cancer as a Source for Targetable Antigens SamuelsYardena Speaker Israel Auditorium 1		Symposium: Brain Metastasis BaggioliniArianna Co-Chair Switzerland JoyceJohanna A Co-Chair Switzerland Identifying and targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in leptomeningeal metastasis BoireAdrienne Speaker United States Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Strategies to challenge brain metastases in mice and human ValienteManuel Speaker Spain Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Title to be announced JoyceJohanna A Speaker Switzerland Auditorium 2		Symposium: Early Onset Cancers EngCathy Co-Chair United States dos Santos DiasMatheus Co-Chair The Netherlands The burgeoning horizon of early-onset GI cancers EngCathy Speaker United States Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 More Than Mutations: A Survival Guide for Nascent Tumours AlcoleaMaria Pilar Speaker United Kingdom Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Genomic epidemiology approaches to elucidate the causes of Early onset colorectal cancer globally Perdomo VelasquezSandra Speaker France Auditorium 6+7
10:45 11:35	Coffee Break / Exhibition / Industry Spotlight Poster and Exhibition Hall
11:15 11:30	Cell Signaling Technology Industry Spotlight Session Spotlight Area
11:35 13:10	Symposium: Clinical Cancer Biomarkers DiveCaroline Co-Chair United Kingdom EscuderoLaura Co-Chair Canada New Insights into the Impact of the Tumor Microbiome on Immunotherapy Response StrausmannRavid Speaker Israel Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Optimal Outcome for High-risk Breast Cancer by Response Predictive Biomarkers Van't VeerLaura Speaker United States Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 The Immune Contexture Concept and Clinical Utility GalonJerome Speaker France Auditorium 1	Symposium: Clonal Hematopoiesis TrumppAndreas Co-Chair Germany dos Santos DiasMatheus Co-Chair The Netherlands Diagnosing the myeloid malignancy continuum from the peripheral blood ShlushLiran I. Speaker Israel Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cancer BernardElsa Speaker France Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Quantitative insights into somatic evolutionary dynamics in healthy and pre-malignant blood BlundellJamie Speaker United Kingdom Auditorium 2		Symposium: Molecular Mechanisms of Metastasis JacquemetGuillaume Co-Chair Finland ErezNeta Co-Chair Israel Aging Stroma Drives Breast Cancer Progression StewartA.Sheila Speaker United States Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Cancer – Matrix Crosstalk in Cancer Progression IvaskaJohanna Speaker Finland Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Targeting the metastatic microenvironment IsackeClare Speaker United Kingdom Auditorium 6+7		Symposium: RNA Biology in Cancer SflomosGeorgios Co-Chair Switzerland Mechanisms of cell plasticity in breast cancer VallotCeline Speaker France Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Targeting lineage plasticity in castration resistant prostate cancer KarthausWouter Speaker Switzerland Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Tissue-specific transcriptional vulnerabilities in cancer VanharantaSakari Speaker Finland Auditorium 8
13:15 15:15	Lunch Break / Exhibition / Poster Viewing Poster and Exhibition Hall
13:30 14:15	Illumina Inc.: Empowering discoveries across omics BabayanAnna Industry Moderator/ Chair Germany Introduction to multiomics BabayanAnna Industry Moderator/ Chair Germany Rapid WGS with Constellation read map technology for paediatric cancer research VediAditi Industry Speaker United Kingdom Identification of biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer: multiomic, epigenetic and metagenomic analysis of rectal mucus sampling WiseDaniel Industry Speaker United Kingdom BreakThrough Spotlight – Early Career Researcher Unravelling Tumour Genetics: The Role of cfDNA Whole-Exome Sequencing in Treatment Response Assessment SerioViola Bianca Industry Speaker Italy Q&A and panel discussion Auditorium 2	Miltenyi Biotec: Spatial biology for studying tumor microenvironment: paving the way for immunotherapy approaches SchalénMartin Industry Moderator/ Chair Sweden Characterization of a novel cancer-associated fibroblast population with immunosuppressive functions WittwerAlina Industry Speaker Germany Multiplexed Imaging-Powered Deep Visual Proteomics (mipDVP) ZhengXiang Industry Speaker Denmark Questions and Answers Auditorium 6+7		Bio-Rad Laboratories Ltd.: Innovating Cancer Science with ddPCR BianchiMarco Giorgio Industry Moderator/ Chair Italy Introduction BianchiMarco Giorgio Industry Moderator/ Chair Italy Role of cfDNA and ctDNA to improve the risk stratification and the disease follow-up in patients with endometrial cancer Muinelo RomayLaura Industry Speaker Spain Detection rate for ESR1 mutations is higher in CTC-derived genomic DNA than in paired plasma cell-free DNA samples as revealed by ddPCR NtzifaAliki Industry Speaker Greece Questions and Answers Auditorium 8		Speed-Networking Event for Early-Career Attendees (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) Details to be announced in 2025 Career Discovery Area
14:25 15:15	Career Discovery Session 1A (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) CarracedoArkaitz Coordinator Spain OricchioElisa Coordinator Switzerland TABLE 1: Efficient and caring mentorship: how to make your research team flourish? JoyceJohanna A Moderator Switzerland TABLE 2: Leadership: Experience of a former EACR president DiveCaroline Moderator United Kingdom TABLE 3: Building Equitable Research Careers for Women IvaskaJohanna Moderator Finland TABLE 4: How to make your research transferable to the clinic ValienteManuel Moderator Spain TABLE 5: How to effectively lead a large research group and handle leadership responsibilities SamuelsYardena Moderator Israel TABLE 6: Challenges of starting a new lab and becoming a PI abroad AlcoleaMaria Pilar Moderator United Kingdom TABLE 7: Experience of creating a biomedical start-up in parallel to leading a research team VallotCeline Moderator France TABLE 8: The challenges of opening your own lab KarthausWouter Moderator Switzerland TABLE 9: ERC funding opportunities for starting or establishing a research group in the EU or Associated Countries Veronica Caraffini Moderator TABLE 10: Lessons from My Journey: Navigating Data Science & Bioinformatics Careers in Pharma SinaNassiri Moderator Switzerland Career Discovery Area
14:30 15:15	Lunaphore, a Bio-Techne brand: Advancing oncology research with spatial biology One platform and endless possibilities for immuno-oncology research KowalJoanna Industry Speaker Switzerland Exploring the Spatial Biology of Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases Xenia MariaFicht Industry Speaker Auditorium 2		PromoCell GmbH: A toolbox for cancer stem cell selection ScheidLisa-Mareike Industry Moderator/ Chair Germany Introduction by Moderator ScheidLisa-Mareike Industry Moderator/ Chair Germany How to kill your fibroblasts and save the cancer stem cells in your culture TrampeAlexander Industry Speaker Germany PromoCell’s Cancer Media Toolbox TrampeAlexander Industry Speaker Germany Questions & Answers Auditorium 6+7		Element Biosciences: High Dimensional Biology: Single Cell & Spatial Multiomics Powered by AVITI24 Auditorium 8
15:20 16:55	Symposium: Immune Cell Heterogeneity in the Cancer Ecosystem SflomosGeorgios Co-Chair Switzerland ErezNeta Co-Chair Israel Charting the intact breast tumour microenvironment AliRaza Speaker United Kingdom Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Stromal and immune plasticity shape the metastatic microenvironment ErezNeta Speaker Israel Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 The Power of ONE: Immunology in the Age of Spatial and Single-Cell Genomics AmitIdo Speaker Israel Auditorium 1	Symposium: Senescence in Therapy Response TrumppAndreas Co-Chair Germany dos Santos DiasMatheus Co-Chair The Netherlands Harnessing senescence biology for immune oncology (REMOTE Presentation) LoweScott Speaker United States Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Controlling therapy-induced senescence: novel approaches to senolysis KovatchevaMarta Speaker Italy Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Plasticity of Leukemic Stem Cells TrumppAndreas Speaker Germany Auditorium 2		Symposium: Non-invasive Diagnostics MouliereFlorent Co-Chair United Kingdom EscuderoLaura Co-Chair Canada Detection of Cancer with Liquid Biopsy PapadopoulosNickolas Speaker United States Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Towards multi-modal liquid biopsies MouliereFlorent Speaker United Kingdom Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types KaplanTommy Speaker Israel Auditorium 6+7		Symposium: Novel Models of Cancer Cachexia CarracedoArkaitz Co-Chair Spain ErezAyelet Co-Chair Israel Title to be announced BaracosVickie Speaker Canada Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Insights into cancer cachexia from the TRACERx lung cancer study Jamal-HanjaniMariam Speaker United Kingdom Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 Exploring the tumor MACROenvironment for improving cancer diagnosis and therapy ErezAyelet Speaker Israel Auditorium 8
16:55 17:30	Coffee Break / Exhibition / Industry Spotlight Poster and Exhibition Hall
17:15 17:30	Parse Biosciences Industry Spotlight Session Spotlight Area
17:30 18:15	Keynote Lecture BardelliAlberto Chair Italy Cancer Metabolism WhiteEileen Keynote Speaker United States Auditorium 1
18:15 18:40	Posters in the Spotlight - Tuesday Spotlight Area
18:40 20:00	Poster Defence Session - Tuesday
10:45 20:00	Poster Session Tuesday Poster and Exhibition Hall