12th International Heidelberg Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer – SCC2025

Sep 14, 2025 - Sep 16, 2025

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12th International Heidelberg Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer – SCC2025

Sep 14, 2025 - Sep 16, 2025

All Day

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About the Event

The SCC international symposium focuses on latest highlights concerning the malignant transformation of stem cells in the blood and other organs, as well as new findings concerning the epigenetic regulation of healthy and diseased stem cells.

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Venue

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Communication Center
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
69120 Heidelberg

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Organizers

Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology
and Experimental Medicine
HI-STEM gGmbH

Department of Internal Medicine V
University Hospital Heidelberg
and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Expertise, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity

World-renowned cancer research institution with expertise in innovative research, patient care, and technological advancements.

Registration and abstract submission

We award prizes to the three best posters and short talks

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Scientific Program 2025

Get inspired by the best and brightest minds in Stem Cell & Cancer research at the International Symposium in Heidelberg.

Pre-Meeting: AML Workshop

Sep 14, 2025

10:00 - 12:30

AML Workshop Part 1

10:00 Welcome and opening remarks (Carsten Müller-Tidow, Heidelberg)
10:10 Novel stem cell types mediating response and resistance in AML (Andreas Trumpp, Heidelberg)
10:40 JAK2 gain of function mutations and therapy resistance in neoplasms (Ross L. Levine, New York)
11:10 Epigenetic therapies in leukemia (Scott Armstrong, Berlin)
11:40 Short Talk: to be selected by the submitted abstracts
12:00 Metabolism in hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia (Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Zurich)
12:30 GROUP PICTURE AML WORKSHOP, LUNCH BREAK

Sep 14, 2025

13:30 - 15:00

AML Workshop Part 2

13:30 RNA editing factors in malignant transformation of leukemia cells (Catriona Jamieson, San Diego)
14:00 Multiomic profiling improves survival in patients of ancestry-diverse population (Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, Columbus)
14:30 Risked stratification in older intensively treated patients with acute myeloid leukemia (Paresh Vyas, Oxford)
15:00 END OF CLINICAL WORKSHOP – COFFEE BREAK

Symposium

Sep 14, 2025

16:00 - 19:30

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 1

16:00 Welcome by Carsten Müller-Tidow & Andreas Trumpp
16:15 Keynote Lecture: Combination therapy with novel agents for AML (Courtney D. DiNardo, Houston)
16:55 Active cell fate repression safeguards hepatocyte
identity and prevents liver tumorigenesis (Moritz Mall, Heidelberg)
17:25 Short Talk: to be selected by the submitted abstracts
17:40 DNA methylation controls stemness of astrocytes in brain (Ana Martin-Villalba, Heidelberg)
18:10 WELCOME RECEPTION
19:30 END OF DAY 1

Sep 15, 2025

09:00 - 10:50

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 2

09:00 Keynote Lecture: Shaping epithelial tissues by stem cell dynamics (Elaine Fuchs, New York)
09:50 Intestinal stem cells in homeostasis and tumor
development (Fred de Sauvage, San Francisco)
10:20 Novel approaches in targeting advanced colorectal cancer (Rene Jackstadt, Heidelberg)
10:50 COFFEE BREAK

Sep 15, 2025

11:20 - 13:00

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 3

11:20 Tissue dynamics in wound healing (Cedric Blanpain, Brussels)
11:50 Short Talk: to be selected by the submitted abstracts
12:05 Clonal Hierarchy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, Columbus)
12:35 Ten Lightning Talks - poster teasers - à 1 minute
13:00 GROUP PICTURE, LUNCH BREAK, EXHIBITION

Sep 15, 2025

13:45 - 16:45

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 4

13:45 Poster Session 1 (odd numbered posters) and Exhibition
15:00 Dynamic clonal evolution and targetable phenotypes in CK-AML (Andreas Trumpp, Heidelberg)
15:30 Short Talk: to be selected by the submitted abstracts
15:45 Metabolic signaling and lung metastasis (Sarah Maria Fendt, Leuven)
16:15 AI-guided hematology for cancer treatment (Mirco Friedrich, Heidelberg)
16:45 COFFEE BREAK

Sep 15, 2025

17:15 - 18:00

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 5

17:15 RNA modification based plasticity in leukemia (Michaela Frye, Heidelberg)
17:45 Short Talk: to be selected by the submitted abstracts
18:00 END OF DAY 2

Sep 16, 2025

09:00 - 11:00

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 6

09:00 Clonal hematopoiesis and evolution to MPN/AML (Ross L. Levine, New York)
09:30 Molecular regulators of dormant hematopoietic stem cells (Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Freiburg)
10:00 Long-term outcomes of therapy in AML (Lars Bullinger, Berlin)
10:30 Ribosomal RNA mediated cellular plasticity in AML (Carsten Müller-Tidow, Heidelberg)
11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Sep 16, 2025

11:30 - 13:05

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 7

11:30 Clonal dynamics and somatic evolution of hematopoiesis (Margaret Goodell, Houston)
12:00 Short Talk: to be selected by the submitted abstracts
12:15 Cancer neuroscience of brain tumors (Frank Winkler, Heidelberg)
12:45 Ten Lightning Talks - poster teasers - à 1 minute
13:05 LUNCH BREAK AND EXHIBITION

Sep 16, 2025

13:45 - 17:30

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 8

13:45 Poster Session 2 (even numbered posters) and Exhibition
15:00 Stem cell aging and malignant transformation (Catriona Jamieson, San Diego)
15:30 Risk stratification in older AML patients with intensive treatment (Paresh Vyas, Oxford)
16:00 Long-term consequences of cancer on immune system (Simon Haas, Berlin)
16:30 Decoding functional hematopoietic progenitor cells (Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge)
17:00 Poster Prizes & Best Short Talk (Concluding Remarks: Carsten Müller-Tidow and Andreas Trumpp)
17:30 END OF CONFERENCE

Key Topics at the Heidelberg Stem Cells and Cancer Conference

The conference will feature keynote lectures, poster sessions, and discussions on cutting-edge research, fostering collaboration between stem cell biologists and cancer researchers.

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