Conferences and symposiums Better Cure and Care - Childhood Cancer Research Symposium 2025
26-09-2025 2:00 pm Add to iCal
On 25-26 September 2025, Department of Women's and Children's Health's division for Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Surgery will host a scientific symposium on Childhood Cancer in conjunction with our 30-year anniversary since our division was established.
The symposium will have a broad focus on childhood cancer, highlighting the success of treating childhood cancer, but also more importantly, the remaining challenges. Social events for all delegates to encourage participation and networking will also be part of the program. Overall, we believe that the symposium will be an important event to demonstrate the progress of childhood cancer over the last 30 years, but that will also strengthen and build networks across disciplines and institutions in Sweden.
Programme
08.00 - Registration
09.00- 12.00 Symposium Session I - Chairs: Nikolas Herold & Cecilia Bartholdson
09.00 - Welcome and introductory, Anna Nilsson, Professor, Head of Division Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Surgery, Karolinska Institutet.
09.10 – Pamela Kearns, Professor University of Birmingham, Head of ITCC
10.00 - Coffee break
10.15 – Novel cell and gene therapies for treatment of childhood cancers - Magnus Essand, Professor, Uppsala University
10.35 – Systems level immunomonitoring in children with solid tumors - Petter Brodin, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
11.00 – Pediatric Oncology Nursing Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 2000-2025: Practice Challenges and Solutions - Julia Challinor, Associate Professor, University of California San Francisco
11.50 – Caring practices during the child´s cancer trajectory - Experiences of young children with cancer and their parents - Karin Enskär, Professor, Uppsala University
12.15 - Lunch
13.15 -16.00 Symposium Session II - Chairs: Phillip Newton & Adamantia Fragkopoulou
13.15 – Important but limited progress in relapsed paediatric bone sarcomas: where next? - Martin McCabe, Professor, University of Manchester
14.05 – Novel treatments for high-risk neuroblastoma - Daniel Bexell, Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Lund University
14.25 – Sofie Degerman, Professor, University of Umeå
14.45 – ALLTogether1 – treatment trial for ALL in children and young adults: opportunities, achievements and challenges - Mats Heyman, Senior Lecturer, Karolinska Institutet
15.10 - Coffee break
15.30 – Selected abstract from Karolinska Institutet (PhD students/postdocs) - chairs: Celine Hafkesbrink & Alkinoos Polychronopoulos
· Hala Habash, Drugging the undruggable target: Gemcitabine and cytarabine kill Ewing sarcoma cells through inhibition of SAMHD1 and degradation of the Ewing sarcoma fusion protein
· Sara Abu Ajamieh, Targeting Teneurin 4 suppresses tumor growth and induces differentiation in neuroblastoma
· Ingrid Lilienthal, Uncovering novel treatment resistance mechanisms in acute myeloid leukemia
16.00 - 18.00 Poster session with mingling reception
08.30 - Registration
09.00 - 12.00 Symposium Session III - Chairs: John Inge Johnsen & Pernilla Bjerking
9.00 – Translating observation into prevention and remediation of accelerated aging in childhood cancer survivors - Kirsten Ness, Professor, St. Judes Children’s Hospital
09.50 - Cardiovascular Diseases in young cancer Survivors. Insights from the Rebuc study - Laila Hubbert, Associate Professor, Linköping University
10.10 – Coffee break
10.30 - Patient-derived stem cell models reveal key drivers and vulnerabilities in medulloblastoma - Margareta Wilhelm, Principal Lecturer, Karolinska Institutet
10.55 - Elias Kumbakumba, Senior Lecturer, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
11.15 – Selected abstract from Karolinska Institutet (PhD students/postdocs) - chairs: Conny Tümmler & Gustav Hedborg
· Gustaf Hellspong, LiBRA, Lithium treatment to prevent cognitive impairment after brain radiotherapy
· Amal Nazaraliyev, Improving pre-clinical models of radiation-induced growth plate injury
· Malin Sveijer, Reduced Quality of Life after Childhood Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: Can we make a change
· Isabelle Billstein, Patient and parent participation in clinical ethics support services in pediatric cancer care – an emerging moral dilemma
12.00 - Closing ceremony
· Margaretha Stenmarker, Chair of Barncancerfonden, Associate Professor, University of Linköping
12.30 -13.30 Lunch