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
11:00 - 12:25

AML Workshop Part 1

  • 11:00    Welcome and Opening Remarks (Carsten Müller-Tidow, Heidelberg)
  • 11:10    Genetics of AML (Lars Bullinger, Berlin)
  • 11:30    AML and microenvironment (Caroline Pabst, Heidelberg)
  • 11:50    MAC Scoring in AML (Simon Renders, Heidelberg)
  • 12:10    Short Talk 1: selected from the submitted abstracts
  • 12:25    GROUP PICTURE AML WORKSHOP, LUNCH BREAK
Sep 14, 2025
13:20 - 14:30

AML Workshop Part 2

  • 13:20    IDH inhibition in AML (Paresh Vas, Oxford)
  • 13:40    AML Immunotherapy (Markus Manz, Zurich)
  • 14:00    Cell therapy of myeloid malignancies (Saar Gill, Philadelphia)
  • 14:30    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: Bcl-2 inhibition in myeloid malignancies (Andrew Wei, Melbourne)
  • 16:55    From single-cell landscapes to spatial architecture in health and disease (Simon Haas, Berlin)
  • 17:25    DNA methylation controls stemness of astrocytes in brain (Ana Martin-Villalba, Heidelberg)
  • 17:55    Mechanisms driving clonal hematopoiesis (Margaret Goodell, Houston)
  • 18:25    WELCOME RECEPTION
  • 19:30    END OF DAY 1
Sep 15, 2025
09:00 - 10:40

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 2

  • 09:00    Keynote Lecture: Therapeutic targeting of chromatin complexes in leukemia (Scott Armstrong, Boston)
  • 09:40    Novel approaches in targeting advanced colorectal cancer (Rene Jackstadt, Heidelberg)
  • 10:10     Intestinal stem cells in homeostasis and tumor development (Fred de Sauvage, San Francisco)
  • 10:40    COFFEE BREAK
Sep 15, 2025
11:10 - 13:00

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 3

  • 11:10    Cancer neuroscience of brain tumors (Frank Winkler, Heidelberg)
  • 11:40    Short Talk 2: selected from the submitted abstracts
  • 11:55    Clonal hierarchy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, Columbus)
  • 12:25    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    AI-guided hematology for cancer treatment (Mirco Friedrich, Heidelberg)
  • 15:30    Short Talk 3: selected from submitted abstracts
  • 15:45    Decoding functional hematopoietic progenitor cells (Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge)
  • 16:15    Cell fate repression and liver tumorigenesis (Moritz Mall, Heidelberg)
  • 16:45    COFFEE BREAK
Sep 15, 2025
17:15 - 18:00

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 5

  • 17:15    Short Talk 4. selected from the submitted abstracts
  • 17:30    Cell fate dynamics in hematopoiesis (Lars Velten, Barcelona)
  • 18:00    END OF DAY 2
Sep 16, 2025
09:00 - 11:10

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 6

  • 09:00    Keynote Lecture: Shaping epithelial tissues by stem cell dynamics (Elaine Fuchs, New York)
  • 09:40    Metabolic signaling and metastasis (Sarah-Maria Fendt, Leuven)
  •  10:10      Molecular regulators of dormant hematopoietic stem cells (Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Zurich)
  • 10:40     Ribosomal RNA mediated cellular plasticity in AML (Carsten Müller-Tidow, Heidelberg)
  •  11:10      COFFEE BREAK
Sep 16, 2025
11:40 - 13:10

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 7

  • 11:40    Adult stem cell function during homeostasis and cancer (Salvador Aznar Benitah, Barcelona)
  • 12:10    Stem cell aging and malignant transformation (Catriona Jamison, San Diego)
  • 12:40    Ten Lightning Talks - poster teasers - à 1 minute
  • 13:10    LUNCH BREAK, EXHIBITION
Sep 16, 2025
14:00 - 17:15

Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer Part 8

  • 14:00    Poster Session 2 (even numbered posters) and Exhibition
  • 15:15    Risk assessment in older AML patients with intensive treatment (Paresh Vyas, Oxford)
  • 15:45    Characterization of single neurons reprogrammed by pancreatic cancer (Andreas Trumpp, Heidelberg)
  • 16:15    RNA modifications and cancer plasticity (Michaela Frye, Heidelberg)
  • 16:45    Poster Prizes & Best Short Talk (Concluding Remarks: Carsten Müller-Tidow and Andreas Trumpp)
  • 17:15    END OF CONFERENCE