Scientific Program

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