The Program
Day 1 - Wednesday 3rd June 2026
Delegates’ Registration
Opening Remarks by the IPSCC 2026 Organising Committee
Keynote Speaker – Matthias Lutolf (EPFL, Lausanne)
Coffee Break
Patients’ Advocate Session
Sponsor Talks
PhD Students Talks - Cancer in Motion: Spatial, Evolutionary and
Metastatic Trajectories
Indonesian dinner and Lab Olympics meet Oud-Hollandse Spellen!
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:15
17:15 – 18:00
18:00 – 21:00
Day 2 - Thursday 4th June 2026
Welcome
PhD Students Talks - Plasticity Under Pressure: Residual Disease,
Metabolic Escape and Therapy Adaptation
Coffee Break
Keynote Speaker - Patrizia Paterlini (Université Paris Descartes, Paris)
Lunch Break
PhD Students Talks - Mobilising Immunity: Innate Cues, T-Cell Function
and Therapeutic Reinforcement
Coffee Break
Workshops
How to handle failure in science
Inclusivity, diversity and equity in science
Theatre skills to present Cancer Research
Poster Session #1
Dinner at the Dean
09:00 – 09:15
09:15 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:30
19:30 – late
Day 3 - Friday 5th June 2026
Welcome
PhD Students Talks - The Prepared Soil: Host Conditioning of Cancer
Initiation and Spread
Coffee Break with Poster Session #2
Lunch Break
PhD Students Talks - Precision Oncology Horizons: Biomarkers, Prediction
and Next-Generation Therapies
Keynote Speaker - Leila Akkari (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam)
Closing remarks and prizes
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:45
12:45 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30