CarolineDive CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom

Professor Caroline Dive and her team in the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute are working side by side with the Christie Hospital, developing ‘liquid biopsies’ to hunt cancer cells that have broken free from tumours and are circulating in the bloodstream.We’re moving towards an era of personalised medicine, where doctors use information about the molecular makeup of an individual patient’s cancer to tailor their treatment. Understanding a patient’s cancer usually involves taking a sample through surgery, known as a biopsy, but this doesn’t always paint a full picture, especially if the disease has spread through the body. And taking repeated biopsies can be difficult and painful for patients.Professor Dive is focusing on lung cancer, the world’s biggest cancer killer. Developing simple blood tests to capture cancer cells could help researchers understand how lung cancer changes as it grows and spreads, and how it can become resistant to treatment. In turn, this will open up opportunities to develop new therapies to treat this deadly disease more effectively.

Monday 08 June 2026

Time	Session

15:45 18:20	EACR 2026 Congress - Opening Session YardenaSamuels Chair Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael Opening Address YardenaSamuels Chair Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael Patient involvement in cancer research Marisol S.Soengas Speaker Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)Spain Opening Keynote Lecture: A Tale of 3 Biomarkers - diagnosis, prognosis and therapy scheduling CarolineDive Keynote Speaker CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom Pezcoller Award Presentation and Introduction of the Award Recipients EnzoGalligioni Presenter The Pezcoller FoundationItaly The Pezcoller Foundation-EACR Translational Cancer Researcher Award 2026 - Title to be announced SamraTurajlic Award Lecture Cancer Research UK, The Manchester InstituteUnited Kingdom The Pezcoller-Marina Larcher Fogazzaro-EACR Women in Cancer Research Award 2026 - Reactivation of a Fetal Liver Metabolic Program Promotes Extrahepatic Tumorigenesis AyeletErez Award Lecture The Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael Room P1+2+3

Time

Session

15:45

18:20

EACR 2026 Congress - Opening Session

YardenaSamuels Chair Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael

Opening Address

YardenaSamuels Chair Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael
Patient involvement in cancer research

Marisol S.Soengas Speaker Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)Spain
Opening Keynote Lecture: A Tale of 3 Biomarkers - diagnosis, prognosis and therapy scheduling

CarolineDive Keynote Speaker CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom
Pezcoller Award Presentation and Introduction of the Award Recipients

EnzoGalligioni Presenter The Pezcoller FoundationItaly
The Pezcoller Foundation-EACR Translational Cancer Researcher Award 2026 - Title to be announced

SamraTurajlic Award Lecture Cancer Research UK, The Manchester InstituteUnited Kingdom
The Pezcoller-Marina Larcher Fogazzaro-EACR Women in Cancer Research Award 2026 - Reactivation of a Fetal Liver Metabolic Program Promotes Extrahepatic Tumorigenesis

AyeletErez Award Lecture The Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael

Room P1+2+3

Tuesday 09 June 2026

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11:35 13:10	Symposium: Biological Rhythms and their Impact on Cancer Therapy’ CarolineDive Co-Chair CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom MatheusHenriqueDias Co-Chair Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands Circadian anti-tumor immune responses ChristophScheiermann Speaker University of GenevaSwitzerland Proffered Paper: Night Shifts, Disrupted Rhythms, Rising Risks: How Circadian Disruption Reprograms the Metabolome–Microbiome Axis in Breast Cancer EACR26-0127 EACR26-0127 TapasreeRoy Sarkar Oral Presenter Texas A & M UniversityUnited States Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis ZoiDiamantopoulou Speaker University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom Proffered Paper: Cancer during pregnancy: chemotherapy placental passage induces epigenetic changes in the embryos EACR26-0386 EACR26-0386 IritBen-Aharon Oral Presenter Rambam Health Care CampusIsrael Timing matters: How hormonal Rhythms govern mutation clearance, cancer initiation, and treatment response Jaccovan Rheenen Speaker Netherlands Cancer InstituteNetherlands Room F6+7+8

Time

Session

11:35

13:10

Symposium: Biological Rhythms and their Impact on Cancer Therapy’

CarolineDive Co-Chair CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom

MatheusHenriqueDias Co-Chair Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands

Circadian anti-tumor immune responses

ChristophScheiermann Speaker University of GenevaSwitzerland
Proffered Paper: Night Shifts, Disrupted Rhythms, Rising Risks: How Circadian Disruption Reprograms the Metabolome–Microbiome Axis in Breast Cancer

EACR26-0127

EACR26-0127

TapasreeRoy Sarkar Oral Presenter Texas A & M UniversityUnited States
Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis

ZoiDiamantopoulou Speaker University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom
Proffered Paper: Cancer during pregnancy: chemotherapy placental passage induces epigenetic changes in the embryos

EACR26-0386

EACR26-0386

IritBen-Aharon Oral Presenter Rambam Health Care CampusIsrael
Timing matters: How hormonal Rhythms govern mutation clearance, cancer initiation, and treatment response

Jaccovan Rheenen Speaker Netherlands Cancer InstituteNetherlands

Room F6+7+8

Wednesday 10 June 2026

Time	Session

13:45 15:00	Career Development Session 2A (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) ElisaOricchio Coordinator ISREC-EPFLSwitzerland TABLE 1: How to make your research impactful and transferable to the clinic Silvia Marsoni Moderator Silvia Marsoni LabItaly TABLE 2: Efficient and caring mentorship: how to make your research team flourish? Arkaitz Carracedo Perez Moderator CIC bioGUNESpain TABLE 3: Navigating a career in Academia and Industry AnnaBabayan Moderator IlluminaGermany TABLE 5: Tips and tricks to publish your work SteveMao Moderator Cancer CellUnited States TABLE 6: How do you know when you are ready to start your own lab? MartaKovatcheva Moderator IFOMItaly TABLE 7: Establishing interdisciplinary collaborations in early independent careers Maria M.Caffarel Moderator Biogipuzkoa Health Research InstituteSpain TABLE 8: Navigating the transition from academia to publishing Siddhi Maniyar Moderator Molecular Oncology, FEBS PressGermany TABLE 9: Scientists and patient advocacy Marisol S.Soengas Moderator Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)Spain TABLE 10: How to start your lab and make it successful SandraBlanco Benavente Moderator Universidad de SalamancaSpain TABLE 11: What is needed to break the glass ceiling for women in science? AnaCuenda Moderator National Centre of Biotecnology (CNB-CSIC)Spain TABLE 12: Challenges of being a clinician scientist: Successfully balancing clinical and academic duties DanielKirschenbaum Moderator Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)Germany TABLE 13: Career transition to industry To beannounced Moderator NWM TESTING TABLE 14: Funding opportunities NicolaHawkes Moderator Worldwide Cancer ResearchUnited States TABLE 15: Funding opportunities AmaiaLujambio Moderator The Mark Foundation for Cancer ResearchUnited States TABLE 4: Building Equitable Research Careers for Women CarolineDive Moderator CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom Career Development Area

Time

Session

13:45

15:00

Career Development Session 2A

(open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required)

ElisaOricchio Coordinator ISREC-EPFLSwitzerland

TABLE 1: How to make your research impactful and transferable to the clinic

Silvia Marsoni Moderator Silvia Marsoni LabItaly
TABLE 2: Efficient and caring mentorship: how to make your research team flourish?

Arkaitz Carracedo Perez Moderator CIC bioGUNESpain
TABLE 3: Navigating a career in Academia and Industry

AnnaBabayan Moderator IlluminaGermany
TABLE 5: Tips and tricks to publish your work

SteveMao Moderator Cancer CellUnited States
TABLE 6: How do you know when you are ready to start your own lab?

MartaKovatcheva Moderator IFOMItaly
TABLE 7: Establishing interdisciplinary collaborations in early independent careers

Maria M.Caffarel Moderator Biogipuzkoa Health Research InstituteSpain
TABLE 8: Navigating the transition from academia to publishing

Siddhi Maniyar Moderator Molecular Oncology, FEBS PressGermany
TABLE 9: Scientists and patient advocacy

Marisol S.Soengas Moderator Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)Spain
TABLE 10: How to start your lab and make it successful

SandraBlanco Benavente Moderator Universidad de SalamancaSpain
TABLE 11: What is needed to break the glass ceiling for women in science?

AnaCuenda Moderator National Centre of Biotecnology (CNB-CSIC)Spain
TABLE 12: Challenges of being a clinician scientist: Successfully balancing clinical and academic duties

DanielKirschenbaum Moderator Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)Germany
TABLE 13: Career transition to industry

To beannounced Moderator NWM TESTING
TABLE 14: Funding opportunities

NicolaHawkes Moderator Worldwide Cancer ResearchUnited States
TABLE 15: Funding opportunities

AmaiaLujambio Moderator The Mark Foundation for Cancer ResearchUnited States
TABLE 4: Building Equitable Research Careers for Women

CarolineDive Moderator CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom

Career Development Area

Thursday 11 June 2026

Time	Session

09:45 11:00	Meet the Editors Panel Discussion AlbertoBardelli Moderator University of Torino / IFOM ETSItaly CarolineDive Moderator CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom Panel Discussion BarbaraMarte Panel NatureUnited Kingdom Dorothy L.Hallberg Panel Science Translational MedicineUnited States GabrieleAlfarano Panel Springer Nature - Genome MedicineGermany I-MeiSiu Panel Cancer DiscoveryUnited States IoannaPavlaki Panel NatureGermany JiayingTan Panel CellChina KevinRyan Panel Molecular OncologyUnited Kingdom Nick Campbell Panel Springer NatureNetherlands PriscillaN. Kelly Panel ScienceUnited States SteveMao Panel Cancer CellUnited States ThomasLemberger Panel EMBO Press & Review CommonsGermany Room P1+2+3

Time

Session

09:45

11:00

Meet the Editors Panel Discussion

AlbertoBardelli Moderator University of Torino / IFOM ETSItaly

CarolineDive Moderator CRUK Cancer Biomarker CentreUnited Kingdom

Panel Discussion

BarbaraMarte Panel NatureUnited Kingdom

Dorothy L.Hallberg Panel Science Translational MedicineUnited States

GabrieleAlfarano Panel Springer Nature - Genome MedicineGermany

I-MeiSiu Panel Cancer DiscoveryUnited States

IoannaPavlaki Panel NatureGermany

JiayingTan Panel CellChina

KevinRyan Panel Molecular OncologyUnited Kingdom

Nick Campbell Panel Springer NatureNetherlands

PriscillaN. Kelly Panel ScienceUnited States

SteveMao Panel Cancer CellUnited States

ThomasLemberger Panel EMBO Press & Review CommonsGermany

Room P1+2+3