Preliminary Program 2025
3rd Cologne Conference on Lung Cancer / 26 – 27 June 2025
Conference Venue: Maritim Hotel
We are pleased to share the preliminary program schedule with you. Please note that this schedule is tentative and subject to changes.
Thursday, 26th June 2025
Friday, 27th June 2025
Thursday, 26th June 2025
| 8:00 am | Welcome Caroline Dive (Manchester, UK), Roman Thomas (Cologne, DE), Reinhard Büttner (Cologne, DE), Jürgen Wolf (Cologne, DE) |
| 8:15 – 9:00 am | Keynote Lecture: Charles Swanton
Chair: Caroline Dive |
| SESSION I: INTRINSIC & EXTRINSIC INFLUENCE ON TUMOR EVOLUTION Chair: Martin Reck | |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Julie George (9:00 – 9:30 am) Mariam Jamal Hanjani (9:30 – 10:00 am) Anna Farago (10:00 – 10:30 am) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee Break & Poster Session A |
| SESSION II: DRUG RESISTANCE & PLASTICITY Chair: Luis Paz-Ares | |
| 11:00 – 1:00 pm | Pasi Jänne (11:00 – 11:30 am) |
| Lauren Byers (11:30 – 12:00 pm) | |
| Martin Sos (12:00 – 12:30 pm) | |
| Silvia von Karstedt (12:30 – 1:00 pm) | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch Break |
| SESSION III: MECHANISMS OF METASTASIS Chair: Fiona Blackhall | |
| 2:00 – 3:30 pm | Julien Sage (2:00 – 2:30 pm) |
| Monte Winslow (2:30 – 3:00 pm) | |
| Kathryn Simpson (3:00 – 3:30 pm) | |
| 3:30 – 4:15 pm | Keynote Lecture: Caroline Dive
Chair: Roman Thomas |
| 4:15 – 4:45 pm | Coffee Break & Poster Session B |
| SESSION IV: TUMOR-NEURONAL INTERACTIONS Chair: Julien Sage | |
| 4:45 – 6:15 pm | Christian Reinhardt (4:45 – 5:15 pm) |
| Humsa Venkatesh (5:15 – 5:45 pm) | |
| Frank Winkler (5:45 – 6:15 pm) | |
| 6:15 – 6:25 pm | Canapés & Drinks |
| 6:25 – 7:25 pm | Flash Talks
Chair: Caroline Dive |
| 8:00 pm | Social Event: Köln Sky |
Friday, 27th June 2025
| SESSION V: LIQUID BIOPSIES Chair: Reinhard Büttner | |
| 8:15 – 8:45 am | Nitzan Rosenfeld (8:15 – 8:45 am) |
| Max Diehn (8:45 – 9:15 am) | |
| SESSION VI: Bench-to-bedside – NEXT GENERATION IMMUNOTHERAPY (Part I) Chair: Julie George | |
| 9:15 – 10:00 am | Keynote Lecture: Fiona Blackhall Chair: Roman Thomas |
| 10:00 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break & Poster Session C |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Luis Paz-Ares (10:30 – 11:00 am) |
| Ugur Sahin (11:00 – 11:30 am) | |
| SESSION VI: Bench-to-bedside – NEXT GENERATION IMMUNOTHERAPY (Part II) Chair: Jürgen Wolf | |
| 11:30 – 12:15 pm | Keynote Lecture: Tony Mok Chair: Jürgen Wolf |
| 12:15 – 1:15 pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:15 – 2:15 pm | Martin Reck (1:15 – 1:45 pm) |
| Sergio Quezada (1:45 – 2:15 pm) | |
| SESSION VII: EARLY DETECTION & PREVENTION OF LUNG CANCER Chair: Caroline Dive | |
| 2:15 – 3:45 pm | Harry de Koning (2:15 – 2:45 pm) |
| William Hill (2:45 – 3:15 pm) | |
| Axel Hillmer (3:15 – 3:45 pm) | |
| 3:45 – 3:55 pm | Concluding remarks |
| Caroline Dive (Manchester, UK), Roman Thomas (Cologne, DE), Reinhard Büttner (Cologne, DE), Jürgen Wolf (Cologne, DE) | |
Subject to change without notice. Last Changes: April 1st, 2025
*Keynote Talks: 45 minutes, Speaker Talks: 30 minutes
