Daily programme - 10 June 2026

Wednesday 10 June 2026

Time Session
08:30
09:15
Meet the Expert - Interactive Session
The "Meet the Expert" sessions are informal and interactive, providing a platform for gaining practical insights, sharing personal experiences with invited experts, and fostering audience interaction
Career Development Area
Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F1+2+3
Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F6+7+8
09:20
10:55
Symposium: Genomic Instability
  • 09:20
    Aneuploidy as an engine of tumor evolution
    UriBen-David Speaker Israel
  • 09:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 09:55
    How environmental exposures and DNA repair shape cancer mutational signatures
    SheeraAdar Speaker Israel
  • 10:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 10:30
    Mechanistic insights into the consequences of chromosome segregation errors on genome integrity
    StefanoSantaguida Speaker Italy
Room F1+2+3
Symposium: Tumour Innervation
  • 09:20
    Targeting the pro-tumorigenic effects of TGFb in tumor treatment
    Carl-HenrikHeldin Speaker Sweden
  • 09:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 09:55
    The role of neurons in carcinomas
    AndreasTrumpp Speaker Germany
  • 10:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 10:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 10:30
    Pulmonary innervation impacts tumour progression: A tale of two cancers
    LeanneLi Speaker United Kingdom
Room F6+7+8
Symposium: Immune Activation beyond T cells
  • 09:20
    Molecular and spatial control of immune microenvironments in pancreatic cancer
    RenatoOstuni Speaker Italy
  • 09:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 09:55
    Determinants of B cell function in cancer
    YuliyaPylayeva-Gupta Speaker United States
  • 10:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 10:30
    Triggering innate lymphocytes with real and virtual cues for cancer immunotherapy
    CamillaJandus Speaker Switzerland
Room P1+2+3
10:30
20:00
Poster Session Wednesday (Poster Viewing)
Poster and Exhibition Hall
10:30
19:00
Exhibition
Poster and Exhibition Hall
10:55
11:35
Coffee Break / Exhibition / Industry Spotlight
Poster and Exhibition Hall
Room P1+2+3
11:10
11:25
Cellecta, Inc. Industry Spotlight Session
Spotlight Theatre
11:35
13:10
Symposium: Microbiome
  • 11:35
    Decoding host-microbiome interactions in cancer immunity. Killing cancer with a gut instinct
    EvangelosGiampazolias Speaker United Kingdom
  • 12:00
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:10
    Title to be announced
    Marisol S.Soengas Keynote Speaker Spain
  • 12:35
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:45
    Title to be announced
    YifatMerbl Speaker Israel
Room F1+2+3
Symposium: Ageing and Cancer
  • 11:35
    A Complex TIME: the role of the aging tumor immune microenvironment in tumor progression
    Ashani T.Weeraratna Speaker United States
  • 12:00
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:10
    Intersection of tumorigenesis and aging-associated decline in lung regenerative potential
    TuomasTammela Speaker United States
  • 12:35
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:45
    Ageing and cancer: mechanistic links
    GuidoKroemer Speaker France
Room F6+7+8
Symposium: Cancer Initiation
  • 11:35
    Using complex models of colorectal cancer to investigate therapeutic targeting
    OwenSansom Speaker United Kingdom
  • 12:00
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:10
    Evolution of the pancreatic cancer microenvironment from early lesions to invasive disease
    MarinaPasca di Magliano Speaker United States
  • 12:35
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:45
    Title to be announced
    PhilJones Speaker United Kingdom
Room F9+10
Symposium: Spatial Tumour Biology / Tumour Heterogenity at the Single Cell Level
  • 11:35
    Single-cell Phenoscaping of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids
    ChrisTape Speaker United Kingdom
  • 12:00
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:10
    Title to be announced
    AndreasSpitzmüller Speaker United Kingdom
  • 12:35
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 12:45
    Multiplexed imaging for next-generation pathology
Room P1+2+3
13:15
15:15
Lunch Break / Exhibition / Poster Viewing
Poster and Exhibition Hall
Room P1+2+3
13:30
14:15
Illumina Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F1+2+3
F.Hoffmann - La Roche Ltd Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F6+7+8
Miltenyi Biotec Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F9+10
13:45
15:00
Career Development Session 2A
(open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required)
Career Development Area
14:30
15:15
Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F1+2+3
Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F6+7+8
Olink Proteomics Sponsored Industry Symposium
Room F9+10
15:20
16:55
Symposium: Cell Death Mechanisms
  • 15:20
    Cysteine metabolism in cancer
    PéterNagy Speaker Hungary
  • 15:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 15:55
    The Power of Death: Harnessing Immunogenic Cell Death to Drive Anti-Tumour Immunity
    Pascal Meier Speaker United Kingdom
  • 16:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 16:30
    What doesn't kill you makes you stranger: Checkpoints dictating entry to apoptosis versus senescence
    Seamus J.Martin Speaker Ireland
Room F1+2+3
Symposium: Tumour Macroenvironment (cachexia, metabolics)
  • 15:20
    Roles of fibroblast subtypes in pancreatic cancer-associated cachexia
    GiuliaBiffi Speaker United Kingdom
  • 15:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 15:55
    How the microbiome induces genotype:phenotype convergence to drive early onset colorectal cancer
    KarunaGanesh Speaker United States
  • 16:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 16:30
    Metabolic reprogramming of fibroblasts in wound healing and cancer
    Sabine Werner Speaker Switzerland
Room F6+7+8
Symposium: Chemical Biology
  • 15:20
    First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer
    StefanLaufer Speaker Germany
  • 15:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 15:55
    Title to be announced
  • 16:30
    Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy
    AlessioCiulli Speaker United Kingdom
Room F9+10
Symposium: Advances in Clinical Trial Design (liquid biopsies)
  • 15:20
    Title to be announced
    AlbertoBardelli Speaker Italy
  • 15:45
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 15:55
    Integrative analyses of biomarker studies to transform advanced prostate cancer care
    Johannde Bono Speaker United Kingdom
  • 16:20
    Proffered Paper: Selected from Abstracts - to be announced in 2026
  • 16:30
    Reading the Molecular Future of Colon Cancer in the Blood
    Silvia Marsoni Speaker Italy
Room P1+2+3
16:55
17:30
Coffee Break / Exhibition / Industry Spotlight
Poster and Exhibition Hall
Room P1+2+3
17:10
17:25
LGC Industry Spotlight Session
Spotlight Theatre
17:30
18:15
Plenary Session - From Bench to Bedside and Back: the development and FDA approval of vemurafenib for melanoma patients
  • 17:30
    Learnings from RAF inhibitor drug discovery
    Gideon Bollag Speaker USA
  • 17:40
    Resistance to BRAF Inhibition: Consequences and Therapeutic Opportunities
    Darrin Stuart Speaker Switzerland
  • 17:50
    Learning the biology of BRAF mutant cancers from the determinants of therapeutic resistance
    KeithFlaherty Speaker USA
  • 18:00
    Discussion
Room P1+2+3
18:15
18:40
Posters in the Spotlight - Wednesday
Spotlight Theatre
Room P1+2+3
18:40
20:00
Poster Discussion Session (at Poster Area)
Poster and Exhibition Hall
Room P1+2+3