3rd Young Scientist Cancer Congress

Preliminary Program

October 8, 2025

09:00 – 18:00
Hackathon

October 9, 2025

Session 1: Clinical approaches in cancer treatment

09:15 – 10:00
Angelika Eggert, Charité Berlin
Cancer medicine - from bench to bedside and back: example neuroblastoma

10:00 – 10:20
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 1

10:20 – 10:40
Coffee Break + Sponsors Stands

10:40 – 11:00
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 2

11:00 – 11:20
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 3

11:20 – 11:40
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 4

Tech Talk Session

11:40 – 12:00
Biotech Company 1

12:00 – 14:00
Lunch + Sponsor Stands

Session 2: Genome regulation

14:00 – 14:45
Nikolaus Rajewsky, BIMSB Berlin
Stay tuned — the title will be revealed soon!

14:45 – 15:05
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 5

15:05 – 15:25
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 6

15:25 – 15:45
Coffee Break + Sponsors Stands

15:45 – 16:05
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 7

16:05 – 16:45
Maite Huarte, CIMA Pamplona, Spain
Stay tuned — the title will be revealed soon!

16:45 – 17:05
Lightning talks (2 minutes/talk selected on abstracts)

17:05 – 19:00
Poster Session

October 10, 2025

Session 3: Innovative approaches in solid tumors

09:00 – 09:45
Julien Mazières, Toulouse University Hospital & Cancer Research Center of Toulouse, France
Stay tuned — the title will be revealed soon!

09:45 – 10:05
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 8

10:05 – 10:25
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 9

10:25 – 10:45
Coffee Break + Sponsor Stands

10:45 – 11:05
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 10

11:05 – 11:25
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 11

11:25 – 12:10
Maik Luu, University of Wurzburg
Stay tuned — the title will be revealed soon!

12:10 – 13:45
Lunch + Sponsors Stands

Tech Talk Session

13:45 – 14:05
Biotech Company 2

Session 4: Science Integrity

14:05 – 14:50
Elizabeth Bik
Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research

Session 5: Tumor genetics in cancer treatment

14:50 – 15:10
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 12

15:10 – 15:30
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 13

15:30 – 15:50
Coffee Break + Industry Sponsors Stands

15:50 – 16:10
Postdoc/Clinician Presentation 15

16:10 – 16:55
René Bernards, Netherlands Cancer Institute
Stay tuned — the title will be revealed soon!

Session 6: Hackathon feedback

16:55 – 17:10
Presentation of the different work groups and Q&A

Session 7: The Editor’s Perspective

17:10 – 17:40
Presentation by a Scientific Editor on Writing a Research Paper
How to write effectively to publish in a prestigious journal?