Preliminary Programme
| November 4, 2026 / Wednesday | |
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00-9:30 | Opening |
| SESSION 1 - Multiomics in Cancer Chairs: ... |
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| 9:30-10:15 | PLENARY LECTURE: Carlos Caldas (Israel/UK) "Breast Cancer Multiomics: From Biology to Clinical Application" [Sponsored by EACR] |
| 10:15-10:35 | Boris Maček (Germany) "Personalized Proteomics in Cancer Research" |
| 10:35-10:55 | Dilek Pirim (Turkey) "Translational Bioinformatics Approaches in Cancer Research" |
| 10:55-11:05 | TBD |
| 11:05-11:15 | TBD |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45-12:05 | Fran Supek (Spain/Denmark) "Genomic Language Models for Elucidating DNA Replication, Mutagenesis and RNA Turnover" |
| 12:05-12:25 | Morana Jaganjac (Croatia) "Redox–Metabolic Crosstalk in Cancer: The Role of Lipid Peroxidation and 4-Hydroxynonenal" |
| 12:25-12:35 | TBD |
| 12:35-12:45 | TBD |
| 12:45-12:55 | TBD |
| 12:55-14:10 | Lunch Break |
| 14:10-15:00 | POSTER SESSION 1 |
| SESSION 2 - Cancer Signaling Chairs: ... |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Anja Uhmann (Germany) "Hedgehog Signalling in the Healthy and Diseased Adult Pituitary Gland" |
| 15:20-15:40 | Bojana Kožik (Serbia) "Extramural Venous Invasion in Rectal Cancer: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities" |
| 15:40-16:00 | Nikolina Stojanović (Croatia) "Where KANK2 Matters: Deciding Between Migration and Adhesion" |
| 16:00-16:10 | TBD |
| 16:10-16:20 | TBD |
| 16:20-16:50 | Coffee Break |
| 16:50-17:10 | Ivana Novak Nakir (Croatia) "Signaling Networks Governing Receptor-Mediated Mitophagy" |
| 17:10-17:30 | Kıvanç Görgülü (Germany) "Autophagy and Pancreatic Cancer: From Bench to Bedside" |
| 17:30-17:40 | TBD |
| 17:40-17:50 | TBD |
| 17:50-18:00 | TBD |
| 18:00-19:00 | Congress Dinner |
| November 5, 2026 / Thursday | |
| SESSION 3 - Experimental Models in Cancer Chairs: ... |
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| 09:00-09:20 | Remzi Okan Akar (Turkey) "In Ovo: One Model, Endless Possibilities in Cancer Research and Life Science" |
| 09:20-09:40 | Aleksandra Divac Rankov (Serbia) "Zebrafish Avatars in Personalized Cancer Therapy" |
| 9:40-10:00 | TBA [Sponsored by Altium International d.o.o.] |
| 10:00-10:10 | TBD |
| 10:10-10:20 | TBD |
| 10:20-10:30 | TBD |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break [Sponsored by GOREA PLUS d.o.o.] |
| SESSION 4 - Inflammation in Cancer Chairs: ... |
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| 11:00-11:20 | Ivana Jovčevska (Slovenia) "Shared miRNA Regulators of PD-1/PD-L1/PD-L2 Axis in Glioblastoma and Colorectal Cancer" |
| 11:20-11:40 | Marijana Kovačić (Serbia) "Anti-Inflammatory Dietary Intervention in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Aromatase Inhibitors" |
| 11:40-12:00 | Zorica Cvetković (Serbia) "Redefining Risk in DLBCL: Beyond the IPI Toward Integrated Precision Prognostication" |
| 12:00-12:10 | TBD |
| 12:10-12:20 | TBD |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-14:15 | POSTER SESSION 2 |
| SESSION 5 - Cancer Therapy and Biomarkers Chairs: ... |
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| 14:15-15:00 | The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Volker Dötsch (Germany) "DARPins for Stabilization or Degradation of p53 Mutants" |
| 15:00-15:20 | Ivana Galetić (Switzerland) "Radioligand Therapy in Oncology" |
| 15:20-15:40 | Marta Popović (Croatia) "DNA-Protein Crosslink Repair: Mechanisms and Implications for Cancer Therapy" |
| 15:40-16:00 | Marija Mojić (Serbia) "Rethinking Tumor Cell Death in Colorectal Cancer: Booster for Progression and Target for Therapy" |
| 16:00-16:10 | TBD |
| 16:10-16:20 | TBD |
| 16:20-16:50 | Coffee Break |
| 16:50-17:10 | Elif Uz (Turkey) "Circular RNAs: Potential Biomarkers in Cancer" |
| 17:10-17:30 | Ozlem Er (Turkey) "Molecular Testing of Glial Tumors in Adults for Targeted Therapy Selection" |
| 17:30-17:40 | TBD |
| 17:40-17:50 | TBD |
| 17:50-18:20 | Closing & Awards [Sponsored by EACR, FEBS OpenBio, Molecular Oncology] |
