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Keynote: Professor Marianna Kruithof-de Julio

Marianna's personal focus 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.

Dr Mhairi Morris 

Winner for the 2025 WORC.Community Grant award. School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University 'Modelling the obesogenic tumour microenvironment in breast cancer: how exercise affects tumour growth, metastasis and survival'.

As.Professor Heidi Haikala

Co-Founder at Solid IO. As. Professor & PI Universities of Tampere & Helsinki.  Studies primary immuno-oncology (IO) and targeted therapy resistance mechanisms & aim to discover more durable immuno- and targeted therapy combinations for lung cancer patients. Solid IO provides Patient-specific organ-on-chip technology for precision oncology & immunotherapy.

Dr Giovanni Blandino

Head of Translational Oncology Research Unit Translation Research Coordinator CTC IFO/IRE, IRCSS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, ITALY.

Dr Meritxell Cutrona

Head of Organoid platforms, Patient-derived organoids for personalized medicine, European Cancer Core Consortium, Gustave Roussy, France. 

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