MatheusDias Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands

Sunday 07 June 2026

Time	Session

14:00 15:40	Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase (Separate pre-registration required) GeorgiosSflomos Chair EPFLSwitzerland Welcome Message GeorgiosSflomos Chair EPFLSwitzerland Therapeutic OVERactivation of oncogenic signaling as a cancer treatment strategy MatheusHenriqueDias Speaker Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands Proffered Paper 1: Lipid-associated macrophages in amoeboid cancer cell dissemination EACR26-1833 EACR26-1833 SamanthaLaurenGeorge Oral Presenter Institute of Cancer ResearchUnited Kingdom Proffered Paper 2: Spatial/single-cell profiling of Tfh niches and CD8 exhaustion in glofitamab resistance EACR26-0682 EACR26-0682 PaulMarcoux Oral Presenter CRCT - INSERMFrance Raising from the ashes of treatment – understanding and targeting persister cells YaaraOren Speaker Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael Room F1+2+3

Time

Session

14:00

15:40

Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase

(Separate pre-registration required)

GeorgiosSflomos Chair EPFLSwitzerland

Welcome Message

GeorgiosSflomos Chair EPFLSwitzerland
Therapeutic OVERactivation of oncogenic signaling as a cancer treatment strategy

MatheusHenriqueDias Speaker Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands
Proffered Paper 1: Lipid-associated macrophages in amoeboid cancer cell dissemination

EACR26-1833

EACR26-1833

SamanthaLaurenGeorge Oral Presenter Institute of Cancer ResearchUnited Kingdom
Proffered Paper 2: Spatial/single-cell profiling of Tfh niches and CD8 exhaustion in glofitamab resistance

EACR26-0682

EACR26-0682

PaulMarcoux Oral Presenter CRCT - INSERMFrance
Raising from the ashes of treatment – understanding and targeting persister cells

YaaraOren Speaker Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael

Room F1+2+3

Monday 08 June 2026

Time	Session

10:30 12:00	Cancer Researchers to watch - An early career showcase (Separate pre-registration required) MatheusHenriqueDias Chair Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands Immune-controlled signaling niches drive tissue physiology and cancer MeravCohen Speaker Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael Proffered Paper 8: Intestinal zonation constrains driver mutation selection and shapes tumour evolution in colorectal cancer EACR26-0547 EACR26-0547 RahelehAmirkhah Oral Presenter Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom The LEAD/DEAL tandem in the cancer research career path Arkaitz Carracedo Perez Keynote Speaker CIC bioGUNESpain Room F1+2+3
12:30 13:45	Networking Event for Early-Career Researchers (open to EACR Early Career & Student Members, pre-registration required) Networking Event - Table hosts AlexandraBoitor Moderator European Association for Cancer ResearchUnited Kingdom AmaiaLujambio Moderator The Mark Foundation for Cancer ResearchUnited States GeorgiosSflomos Moderator EPFLSwitzerland GuillaumeJacquemet Moderator Åbo Akademi UniversityFinland HenriettButz Moderator National Institute of OncologyHungary Maria M.Caffarel Moderator Biogipuzkoa Health Research InstituteSpain MariangelaRusso Moderator University of TorinoItaly MatheusHenriqueDias Moderator Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands MeravCohen Moderator Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael MichaelKilian Moderator Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolUnited States MircoJ.Friedrich Moderator German Cancer Research Center and HI-STEM GmbHGermany Natalie Scholes Moderator Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)Netherlands SandraBlanco Benavente Moderator Universidad de SalamancaSpain ShaliniVasudevRao Moderator Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom YaaraOren Moderator Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael Career Development Area

Tuesday 09 June 2026

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

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

11:35 13:10	Symposium: Ageing and Cancer Arkaitz Carracedo Perez Co-Chair CIC bioGUNESpain MatheusHenriqueDias Co-Chair Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands A Complex TIME: the role of the aging tumor immune microenvironment in tumor progression Ashani T.Weeraratna Speaker John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthUnited States Proffered Paper: Aging triggers an immunosuppressive senescent microenvironment promoting lung cancer development and metastasis EACR26-1640 EACR26-1640 MUNOZ-ESPINDANIEL Oral Presenter University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom Intersection of tumorigenesis and aging-associated decline in lung regenerative potential TuomasTammela Speaker The Tuomas Tammela LabUnited States Proffered Paper: XP-C deficiency drives universal mutator phenotypes across cancer types and orchestrates cellular sensitivity to bulky DNA adducts EACR26-0279 EACR26-0279 FatemehRajabi Oral Presenter IGRFrance Ageing and cancer: mechanistic links GuidoKroemer Speaker The Kroemer LabFrance Room F6+7+8
15:20 16:55	Symposium: Cell Death Mechanisms JukkaWestermarck Co-Chair University of TurkuFinland MatheusHenriqueDias Co-Chair Princess Máxima CenterNetherlands Cysteine metabolism in cancer PéterNagy Speaker National Institute of OncologyHungary Proffered Paper: Chemotherapy primes tumor-associated macrophages to enable caspase-8 dependent apoptosis triggered by birinapant in ovarian cancer cells EACR26-0380 EACR26-0380 RicardoCoelho Oral Presenter University Hospital of Basel and University of BaselSwitzerland The Power of Death: Harnessing Immunogenic Cell Death to Drive Anti-Tumour Immunity Pascal Meier Speaker Institute of Cancer ResearchUnited Kingdom Proffered Paper: Mechanical stress promotes pancreatic cancer metastasis via cytoskeleton remodeling induced entosis EACR26-0422 EACR26-0422 ChengchengWang Oral Presenter Peking Union Medical College Hospital China What doesn't kill you makes you stranger: Checkpoints dictating entry to apoptosis versus senescence Seamus J.Martin Speaker Trinity College Dublin, The Martin LabIreland Room F1+2+3