Events
The Cancer Cachexia Society 8th Annual Cancer Cachexia Conference
Turin, Italy September 25-September 27, 2025
Our CANCAN team will be at the 8th Annual Cancer Cachexia Conference in Turin, Italy, from September 25 to 27, 2025. A large group from our CANCAN team will be attending and speaking at the event, including Drs. Mariam Jamal Hanjani, Giulia Biffi, Tobias Janowitz, Tony Coll, Bette Caan, and Marcus Goncalves. You can find the link for additional conference information and the conference program with listed speakers in the links below:
The European Association for Cancer Research (Virtual Event): Conference on The Systemic Consequences of Cancer; Cancer as a Whole-body Disease
Date: February 25-26,2025
Drs. Eileen White, Marcus Goncalves, Tobias Janowitz, and Karen Vousden have been selected to co-chair a session at the EACR virtual conference on the “Systemic Consequences of Cancer; Cancer as a Whole-body Disease,” February 25-26, 2025. This two-day virtual event will focus on exploring the underlying mechanisms of tumors and how they affect the immune system by causing overwhelming inflammatory changes that affect the whole body. The session will feature selected talks, abstracts, and oral poster presentations on exclusive topics that include how cancer affects brain function and behavior and the causes of systemic metabolic reprogramming in the host. The abstract and poster session is open to trainees who wish to attend.
If you are interested in submitting an abstract to be considered for an oral presentation or poster, the deadline is January 13, 2025, while the registration deadline is February 3, 2025 (please see links below). This is another opportunity for team CANCAN to showcase the impactful projects our team is working on for the cancer research community!
List of featured Speakers:
Tuesday February 25th,2025
Dr. Ayelet Erez; Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Presentation title: (TBA)
Dr. Dimitrios Anastasiou; The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Presentation title: Roles of host metabolism in liver cancer
Dr. Tobias Janowitz; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA
Presentation title: Interorgan Communication in Cancer Cachexia
Dr. Danna Breen; Pfizer, Cambridge, USA
Presentation title: (TBA)
Wednesday February 26th, 2025
Dr. Sarah Maria Fendt; VIB KU Leuven Centre for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
Presentation title: Metabolic regulation of metastasis formation
Dr. Manuel Valiente; CNIO, Madrid, Spain
Presentation title: The brain metastatic niche as a source of systemic vulnerabilities and opportunities
Dr. Adrian Hayday; Crick Institute, London, UK
Presentation title: (TBA)
Keynote Lecturer: Dr. William Kaelin; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Presentation title: (TBA)
Discussion Session:
Drs. Eileen White (Rutgers Cancer Institute, New Jersey, USA); Karen Vousden (Crick Institute, London, UK); Marcus Goncalves (New York University Langone, New York, USA); Tobias Janowitz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA)
The 17th International Conference on Sarcopenia, Cachexia, and Wasting Disorders
Washington D.C., December 6-8 2024
Date: December 6-8 2024
Please join our CANCAN team in Washington D.C., December 6-8 for the 17th International Conference on Sarcopenia, Cachexia, and Wasting Disorders. Drs. Steven Heymsfield and David Lewis have organized a team of CANCAN speakers that includes Drs. Eileen White, Justin Brown and Tony Hui who will present a seminar session on “Understanding Dysregulated Metabolic Homeostasis in Cancer Cachexia “. Trainees who are interested can attend, and if you would like to submit an abstract for the poster presentations, the deadline is July 31st. Please see the following links below for the conference, registration and to submit an abstract. Please register if interested as the early bird rate deadline is September 5th .
7th Cancer Cachexia Conference
Date: September 28-30, 2023 • Edinburgh, Scotland
- Please mark your calendar for September 28-30 in Edinburgh, Scotland for the 7th annual Cancer Cachexia Conference. Our team will be represented well by Drs.Bette Caan, Tony Hui, Janelle Ayres, David Lewis, and Richard Dunne who all will be presenting. Barry Laird and Daniel Marks from our Virtual Seminar Series will also be speaking at the event. Please note that registration is open now from now till August 8th (please see the registration link under the main link). The Conference is open to all our investigators, junior scientists, and students. If you are interested in attending, please click on the link and go to the “conferences” tab for more information.
Medicine at The Crick “The Tumor Microenviornment-Looking Beyond T-Cells
Date: Thursday June 29th 2023 • London, U.K
- Please mark your calendar for the Medicine at The Crick “The Tumor Microenvironment-Looking Beyond T-Cells” event on June 29th at the Francis Crick Institute, London U.K. Our own Dr. Tobias Janowitz is a guest speaker at the event. If you are interested in attending, please see the link below for registration information. There is a virtual admission registration until June 28th and an in-person registration until June 25th (please see in the registration link posted)
The Beatson International Cancer Conference on Interorgan Communication in Cancer
Date: July 16th-July 19 • Glasgow, Scotland
Please mark your calendar for July-16-July 19th in Glasgow, Scotland at the The Scotland Institute. Our CANCAN team will be well represented with Dr. Eileen White as a Keynote Speaker. Norbert Perrimon, Giulia Biffi, and the Beatson team which includes David Lewis, and Oliver Maddocks will all be in attendance. If you are interested in attending, please see the link below or contact conference@beatson.gla.ac.uk as registration is still open. Registration and accommodation information details are listed in the below link.
