Daily Programme

Legend

Symposia, Special Sessions, Plenary Session, Meet The Expert, Meet the Editors, Poster Spotlights

Industry sponsored Symposium, Industry Spotlights

Networking, Career Discovery Sessions, Poster Sessions

Sunday, 15 June 2025 - Early Career Symposium

Time	Session

14:00 15:40	Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase (Separate pre-registration required) 14:00 Welcome Message CaffarelMaria M Chair Spain 14:10 Title to be confirmed BarthNicole Speaker United Kingdom 14:40 Proffered Paper 1: To be announced in 2025 14:55 Proffered Paper 2: To be announced in 2025 15:10 Title to be announced CaffarelMaria M Speaker Spain Auditorium 8
15:40 16:10	Refreshment Break
16:10 17:40	Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase (Separate pre-registration required) TichetMelanie Chair Switzerland 16:10 Title to be announced TichetMelanie Speaker Switzerland 16:40 Proffered Paper 3: To be announced in 2025 16:55 Proffered Paper 4: To be announced in 2025 17:10 Title to be announced dos Santos DiasMatheus Speaker The Netherlands Auditorium 8
17:40 18:30	Meet the ECR Council - Panel Discussion (Separate pre-registration required) Auditorium 8
18:30 20:00	Early Career Networking Reception (Separate pre-registration required) Main Foyer

Monday, 16 June 2025

Time	Session

08:30 10:00	Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase (Separate pre-registration required) MorandiAndrea Chair Italy 08:30 Title to be announced MorandiAndrea Speaker Italy 09:00 Proffered Paper 5: To be announced in 2025 09:15 Proffered Paper 6: To be announced in 2025 09:30 Title to be announced BaggioliniArianna Speaker Switzerland 10:00 Refreshment Break Auditorium 8
09:00 14:00	Women in Leadership (Separate pre-registration required) Offsite Venue
10:20 12:00	ASPIC - EACR Joint Symposium BardelliAlberto Co-Chair Italy JerónimoCarmen Co-Chair Portugal 10:20 γδ T Cells in Cancer and Cancer Immunotherapy SantosBruno Silva Speaker Portugal 10:40 Zebrafish Cancer Avatars for Clinical Decision-making FiorRita Speaker Portugal 11:00 IL-7 and IL-7R: Subverting Lymphoid Development Towards Leukemia BarataJoao T. Speaker Portugal 11:20 Association Between CDH1 Germline Variants and Cancer Phenotypes OliveiraCarla Speaker Portugal 11:40 Questions & Answers Auditorium 6+7
10:30 12:00	Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase (Separate pre-registration required) JacquemetGuillaume Chair Finland 10:30 Title to be announced JacquemetGuillaume Speaker Finland 11:00 Proffered Paper 7: To be announced in 2025 11:15 Proffered Paper 8: To be announced in 2025 11:30 Title to be announced CohenMerav Speaker Israel Auditorium 8			Meet the Expert - Interactive Session Meet the Expert sessions last 60 minutes and feature two invited experts who provide practical insight, exchange personal experiences and spark audience discussion. Following the general discussion, participants can strike up one-on-one conversations with the experts and extend the conversation into the coffee breaks. 10:30 Details to be announced Career Discovery Area
12:00 14:00	Lunch Break / Exhibition Main Foyer
12:15 13:00	biomodal Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7			Bruker Spatial Biology Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 8
13:15 14:00	10x Genomics Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7			Standard BioTools Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 8
14:00 15:15	Top Abstracts 14:00 Details to be announced in 2025 Auditorium 1		Award Winners Special Session 14:00 Details to be announced in 2025 Auditorium 2		Joint EACR - EACS - Molecular Oncology Session 14:00 DNA damage, cancer and aging and the unexpected impact of nutritional interventions HoeijmakersJan H. Speaker 14:25 Title to be announced 14:50 Title to be announced VenkataramaniVarun Speaker Germany Auditorium 6+7
15:15 15:45	Coffee Break / Exhibition Poster and Exhibition Hall
15:45 18:15	EACR 2025 Congress - Opening Session SamuelsYardena Chair Israel 15:50 Myeloid Mayhem: Inflammation driven Lung cancer initiation and progression SwantonCharles Keynote Speaker United Kingdom 16:35 Pezcoller Award Presentation and Introduction of the Award Recipients 16:40 The Pezcoller Foundation-EACR Translational Cancer Researcher Award 2025 - Title to be announced AmitIdo Award Lecture Israel 17:25 The Pezcoller-Marina Larcher Fogazzaro-EACR Women in Cancer Research Award 2025 - Dissecting Tumor-Immune Crosstalk in Cancer Progression and Therapy de VisserKarin Award Lecture The Netherlands Auditorium 1
18:15 19:45	Exhibitors Welcome Reception Poster and Exhibition Hall

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Time	Session

08:30 09:15	Thermo Fisher Scientific sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 2				Industry Sponsored Symposium Auditorium 6+7				Meet the Expert - Interactive Session Career Discovery Area
09:20 10:55	Symposium: Next-generation Immunotherapy Modalities SamuelsYardena Co-Chair Israel 09:20 Engineered dendritic cells for cancer immunotherapy De PalmaMichele Speaker Switzerland 09:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 09:55 Exploiting immune surveillance to target colorectal cancer BardelliAlberto Speaker Italy 10:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 10:30 Title to be announced SamuelsYardena Speaker Israel Auditorium 1				Symposium: Brain Metastasis 09:20 Identifying and targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in leptomeningeal metastasis BoireAdrienne Speaker United States 09:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 09:55 Strategies to challenge brain metastases in mice and human ValienteManuel Speaker Spain 10:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 10:30 Title to be announced JoyceJohanna A Speaker Switzerland Auditorium 2				Symposium: Early Onset Cancers 09:20 The burgeoning horizon of early-onset GI cancers EngCathy Speaker United States 09:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 09:55 Title to be announced 10:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 10:30 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 11:35 Title to be announced 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 Optimal Outcome for High-risk Breast Cancer by Response Predictive Biomarkers Van't VeerLaura Speaker United States 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 The Immune Contexture Concept and Clinical Utility GalonJerome Speaker France Auditorium 1			Symposium: Clonal Hematopoiesis 11:35 Diagnosing the myeloid malignancy continuum from the peripheral blood ShlushLiran I. Speaker Israel 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cancer BernardElsa Speaker France 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 Quantitative insights into somatic evolutionary dynamics in healthy and pre-malignant blood BlundellJamie Speaker United Kingdom Auditorium 2			Symposium: Molecular Mechanisms of Metastasis ErezNeta Co-Chair Israel 11:35 Aging Stroma Drives Breast Cancer Progression StewartA.Sheila Speaker United States 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 Cancer – Matrix Crosstalk in Cancer Progression IvaskaJohanna Speaker Finland 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 Targeting the metastatic microenvironment IsackeClare Speaker United Kingdom Auditorium 6+7			Symposium: RNA Biology in Cancer 11:35 Mechanisms of cell plasticity in breast cancer VallotCeline Speaker France 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 Targeting lineage plasticity in castration resistant prostate cancer KarthausWouter Speaker Switzerland 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 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. sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 2			Miltenyi Biotec sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7			Bio-Rad Laboratories Ltd sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 8			Speed-Networking Event for Early-Career Attendees (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) 13:30 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) 14:25 Details to be announced in 2025 Career Discovery Area
14:30 15:15	Lunaphore, a Bio-Techne brand sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 2				Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7				Element Biosciences sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 8
15:20 16:55	Symposium: Immune Cell Heterogeneity in the Cancer Ecosystem ErezNeta Co-Chair Israel 15:20 Charting the intact breast tumour microenvironment AliRaza Speaker United Kingdom 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Stromal and immune plasticity shape the metastatic microenvironment ErezNeta Speaker Israel 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 The Power of ONE: Immunology in the Age of Spatial and Single-Cell Genomics AmitIdo Speaker Israel Auditorium 1			Symposium: Senescence in Therapy Response 15:20 Harnessing senescence biology for immune oncology LoweScott Speaker United States 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Controlling therapy-induced senescence: novel approaches to senolysis KovatchevaMarta Speaker Italy 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 Plasticity of Leukemic Stem Cells TrumppAndreas Speaker Germany Auditorium 2			Symposium: Non-invasive Diagnostics 15:20 Detection of Cancer with Liquid Biopsy PapadopoulosNickolas Speaker United States 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:45 Towards multi-modal liquid biopsies MouliereFlorent Speaker United Kingdom 16:10 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:20 Title to be announced KaplanTommy Speaker Israel Auditorium 6+7			Symposium: Novel Models of Cancer Cachexia 15:20 Title to be announced BaracosVickie Speaker Canada 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Insights into cancer cachexia from the TRACERx lung cancer study Jamal-HanjaniMariam Speaker United Kingdom 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 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 17:30 Cancer Metabolism WhiteEileen Keynote Speaker United States Auditorium 1
18:15 18:40	Posters in the Spotlight Spotlight Area
18:40 20:00	Poster Defence Session - Tuesday

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Time	Session

08:30 09:15	Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 2				Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7				Meet the Expert - Interactive Session 08:30 Details to be announced Career Discovery Area
09:20 10:55	Symposium: New Drugs on the Horizon 09:20 Title to be announced 09:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 09:55 Targeting chromatin proteins for therapeutic benefit in haematological malignancy SomervailleTim Speaker United Kingdom 10:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 10:30 Phosphatase targeting for cancer therapy WestermarckJukka Speaker Finland Auditorium 1				Symposium: Tumour Innervation 09:20 The neural regulation of small cell lung cancer progression VenkateshHumsa Speaker United States 09:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 09:55 Neural mechanisms of brain tumor growth and resistance WinklerFrank Speaker Germany 10:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 10:30 Neural-tumour communication accelerates cancer progression and impairs treatment response SloanErica Speaker Australia Auditorium 2				Symposium: Normal Tissue (not Blood) 09:20 Clonal evolution of cancer from initiation to metastasis in the mouse BalmainAllan Speaker United States 09:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 09:55 Mutational landscape and clonal dynamics in normal and precancerous tissues RahbariRaheleh Speaker United Kingdom 10:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 10:30 Somatic evolution in normal tissues and cancer risk RisquesRosana Speaker United States Auditorium 6+7
10:45 11:35	Coffee Break / Exhibition/ Industry Spotlight Poster and Exhibition Hall
11:15 11:30	TECAN Industry Spotlight Spotlight Area
11:35 13:10	Symposium: Cancer Genomics 11:35 Epigenetic dysregulation and cancer evolution ScaffidiPaola Speaker Italy 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 Cancer aneuploidy: From evolutionary pressures to cellular vulnerabilities Ben-DavidUri Speaker Israel 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 Title to be announced TurajlicSamra Speaker United Kingdom Auditorium 1			Joint EACR - EMBO Symposium: Advanced in vitro Models 11:35 Tumor evolution: A real-time and single-cell perspective SnippertHugo Speaker The Netherlands 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 Development of advanced immunotherapies using human 3D-bioprinted cancer avatars Satchi-FainaroRonit Speaker Israel 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 Deciphering the role of infection and diet in driving early carcinogenic events using advanced organoid models and omics ChumduriCindrilla Speaker Germany Auditorium 2			Joint EACR - ASPIC Symposium: Cancer Therapy Resistance 11:35 Studying melanoma therapy resistance one cell at the time MarineJean-Christophe Speaker Belgium 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 The role of RANK signaling in breast cancer biology and response to therapy CasimiroSandra Speaker Portugal 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 Rational combinations to enhance the activity of KRAS inhibitors MisaleSandra Speaker United States Auditorium 6+7			Symposium: Tumour Dormancy 11:35 Title to be announced GomisRoger Speaker Spain 12:00 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:10 What makes a tissue favorable or not to metastasis? Luisa CorreiaAna Speaker Portugal 12:35 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 12:45 How host niche variations regulate disseminated cancer cell dormancy and awakening Aguirre-GhisoJulio A. Speaker United States Auditorium 8
13:15 15:15	Lunch Break / Exhibition / Poster Viewing Poster and Exhibition Hall
13:30 14:15	Akoya Biosciences, Inc. Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 2			Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7			QIAGEN Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 8			Career Discovery Session 2A (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) 13:30 Details to be announced in 2025 Career Discovery Area
14:25 15:15	Career Discovery Session 2B (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) 14:25 Details to be announced in 2025 Career Discovery Area
14:30 15:15	Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 2				Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 6+7				Sponsored Industry Symposium Auditorium 8
15:20 16:55	Symposium: AI Tools in Cancer Research 15:20 AI in Cancer Research: From Machine Learning to Simulations BuffaFrancesca Speaker United Kingdom 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Title to be announced LitchfieldKevin Speaker United Kingdom 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 Title to be announced Auditorium 1			Symposium: Prevention and Early Detection 15:20 Polygenic risk models and prevention in breast and ovarian cancer PharoahPaul Speaker United States 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Mechanisms of Lung Cancer Promotion HillWilliam Speaker United Kingdom 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 Investigating the impact of environmental exposures LimEmilia Speaker Canada Auditorium 2			Symposium: DNA Repair and Immunosurveillance 15:20 DNA repair-dependent immunogenic liabilities in colorectal cancer: the opportunity comes from the errors GermanoGiovanni Speaker Italy 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Title to be announced 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 Title to be announced PaganiMassimiliano Speaker Italy Auditorium 6+7			Symposium: EC DNA 15:20 Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA): Cancer’s Dynamic Circular Genome MischelPaul Salomon Speaker United States 15:45 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 15:55 Ultra-rapid evolution of cancer through extrachromosomal circular DNA RegenbergBirgitte Speaker Denmark 16:20 Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2025 16:30 Title to be announced Auditorium 8
16:55 18:30	Coffee Break / Exhibition / Industry Spotlight Poster and Exhibition Hall
17:15 17:30	Industry Spotlight Session
17:30 18:15	Plenary Session - From Bench to Bedside and Back BardelliAlberto Chair Italy Bernards Co-Chair Netherlands 17:30 Title to be announced TaberneroJosep Speaker Spain Auditorium 1
18:15 18:40	Poster Spotlight Session - Wednesday Spotlight Area
18:40 20:00	Poster Defence Session - Wednesday

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Time	Session

09:00 09:45	Keynote Lecture 09:00 Title to be announced Pe'erDana Keynote Speaker United States Auditorium 1
09:45 11:00	Meet the Editors Panel Discussion BardelliAlberto Moderator Italy DiveCaroline Moderator United Kingdom 09:45 Panel Discussion ZaromytidouAlexia-Ileana Panel United States AlfaranoGabriele Panel Germany TurkHarmony Panel United States RyanKevin Panel United Kingdom KellyPriscilla Panel United States ChaRita S. Panel United Kingdom Auditorium 1
11:00 11:15	Break Main Foyer
11:15 12:00	Keynote Lecture 11:15 Title to be announced BlanpainCedric Keynote Speaker Belgium Auditorium 1
12:00 12:15	General Assembly and Awards Ceremony (EACR Members only)
12:15 12:45	Coffee Break Main Foyer
12:45 13:35	Keynote Lecture & Closing Remarks SamuelsYardena Chair Israel 12:45 ‘The EMBO Keynote Lecture’: The cellular ecosystems of human breast cancer CaldasCarlos Keynote Speaker United Kingdom 13:30 EACR 2025 - Closing Remarks Auditorium 1