Programme

Symposia topics at the EACR 2026 Congress will include:

• Advances in Clinical Trial Design (liquid biopsies)
• Ageing and Cancer
• Biological Rhythms and its Impact on Cancer Therapy
• Brain Tumors
• Cancer and RNA modifications
• Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
• Cancer Initiation
• Cancer Prevention
• Cell Cycle Regulation
• Cell Death Mechanisms
• Chemical Biology
• Functional Genomics (Joint EACR – MOT Hungarian Oncology Society Symposium)
• Genomic Instability
• Immune Activation beyond T cells 
• Mechansisms of Tumour Metastasis
• Microbiome
• Novel Cancer Models (Joint EACR-EMBO Symposium)
• Plasticity and Non-genetic Cancer Evolution
• Spatial Tumour Biology / Tumour Heterogeneity at the Single Cell Level
• Tumors are Ecosystems: New insights on the Tumor Microenvironment
• Tumour Innervation
• Tumour Macroenvironment (cachexia, metabolics)

Plus keynote lectures on further cutting-edge topics

Session types and formats

Symposium: the main building block of the scientific programme, each symposium is focussed on a specific topic and is composed of three presentations given by invited speakers, along with two presentations selected through the abstract submission process. After each presentation, there will be time for Q&A with the audience, moderated by a session chair or co-chairs.

Meet the Expert: informal interactive sessions where an expert is invited to meet, connect and answer questions with participants on a given topic. The aim of these sessions is not to have a 1-hour presentation, but rather have a short presentation followed by a very lively discussion and Q&A session with participants around a specific topic.

Keynote Lecture: a renowned speaker is invited to give a presentation on a topic that is either of very high interest, highly controversial, ground-breaking or extremely relevant to attendees.

Career Development Session: dedicated to early-career researchers who are looking to boost their career by learning tips and tricks on different professional pathways. The session room will be organised with round tables, each focused on a given topic and expertise, and participation will be limited to 9 participants per table per time slot. These sessions will be open only to pre-registered attendees.