30th September 2025: 12pm - 3pm appx GMT/UTC
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WORLD CANCER RESEARCH DAY in 3D
Discovery, Prediction & Therapy insights with Patient Derived Cancer Models for Precision Oncology.
By WORC.Community with ELSEVIER
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WORLD LEADING science and insight
from leading oncology researchers!
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'ELSEVIER GENE Best Paper Award 2025'
including a $2,500 prize!
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KEY NOTE: Professor Marianna Kruithof-de Julio.
12:pm GMT/UTC
Marianna's personal focus at the University of Bern is on personalized medicine with particular interest in ex vivo tissue slices of GU cancers, organoid generation from patient specimens and patient derived xenografts and establishment of PDX from GU cancers and bone metastasis.
Talk Title: 'Stratified oncology platform utilizing transcriptomics, prostate cancer organoids and modelling of drug response'.
As.Professor Heidi Haikala
12:25pm GMT/UTC
Co-Founder at Solid IO.
Dr Mhairi Morris
12:00pm GMT/UTC
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University.
AWARD Winner for the 2025 WORC.Community Grant award!
Talk title: 'Modelling the obesogenic tumour microenvironment in breast cancer'
(how exercise affects tumour growth, metastasis and survival'
'Organoids for Oncology Drug Development'
Preclinical oncology drug development and validation services using tumor organoids and the HUB tumor organoid biobank. 1:05pm GMT/UTC
Dr Zinaida Perova
1:45pm GMT/UTC
Project Lead, Cancer Models at European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI. Software development for the cancer research and oncology community with a focus on patient-derived cancer models.
Talk Title: CancerModels.Org - An open global cancer research platform for patient-derived cancer models.
Dr Giovanni Blandino
2.05pm GMT/UTC
Head of Translational Oncology Research Unit & Translation Research Coordinator.
CTC IFO/IRE, IRCSS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, ITALY.
Talk title: 'Looking for a 3D surrogate to predict precision oncology'.
Dr Elad Katz
2:25pm GMT/UTC
Founder, Navigate Precision Biology, UK.
Talk Title: 'Making the next step: how we can align cancer organoids with the needs of patients?'
Dr Meritxell Cutrona
2:45pm GMT/UTC
Former Head of Organoid platforms, Patient-derived organoids for personalized medicine.
European Cancer Core Consortium, Gustave Roussy, France.
Talk Title: Organoid-based drug screening & CYP3A5 targeted-inhibition validation.
Main Sponsors
FREE DOWNLOAD: White Paper by Crown Bioscience
Unveiling the Future of Oncology
Functional Screening with Patient-Derived Organoids and High-Content Imaging.
FREE DOWNLOAD: White Paper by Crown Bioscience
Unveiling the Future of Oncology
Functional Screening with Patient-Derived Organoids and High-Content Imaging.
FREE DOWNLOAD: White Paper by Crown Bioscience
Unveiling the Future of Oncology
Functional Screening with Patient-Derived Organoids and High-Content Imaging.
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WORD+2026! and WORD25 Xmas meet up!