iCAN Science Meetup

Welcome to the iCAN Science Meetup with poster exhibition

November 25, 2026 at 14.00-18.30 in Biomedicum Lecture Hall 1

Register here by November 18.

The oral presentations have already been selected.

You are still warmly invited to present your work as a poster.  Posters that have been presented previously are also accepted.

We’re excited to have you join us!

PROGRAM

14.00-14.10 Opening words: Satu Mustjoki and Tomi Mäkelä

14.10 -15.30 Session I   Chair Satu Mustjoki

14.10 -14.40 Nina Mars: Germline polygenic risk across the cancer continuum: from somatic mutational signatures to prognosis

14.40 -15.30 Short talks based on abstracts

Arian Askari: Patient-derived conditionally reprogrammed cells for bladder cancer modeling and drug sensitivity assessment

Gantugs Atarsaikhan: Self-Supervised Learning for Pan-Cancer Tissue Profiling Using Multiplex Immunofluorescence Imaging

Salome Decombis: Bone marrow stromal cells impair natural killer (NK) cell activation and promote resistance of acute myeloid leukemia cells to NK cell cytotoxicity through cytokine signalling

Kalle Hokkanen: Simulation-driven precision epidemiology reveals that naïve penetrance severely underestimates lifetime cancer burden in MLH1 and MSH2, but not in MSH6 or PMS2, Lynch syndrome carriers

15.30 -16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.25 Session II    Chair Tomi Mäkelä

16.00 – 16.30 Andrew Erickson: From Spatial Biology to the Clinic: Urine Single-Cell Based Prostate Cancer Diagnostics

16.30-17.05 Short talks based on abstracts

Mirte van der Heijden: The urine microbiome as a potential biomarker in cancer immunotherapy

Sara Palomino-Echeverria: Single-cell multi-omics profiling of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer reveals tumor phenotypes associated with clinical outcomes

Caroline Högel-Starck: Identifying epigenetic biomarkers for classification and therapeutic targeting of pediatric solid tumors

17.10 -17.25 Closing words: SIAB Chair Jonathan Knowles

17.25 -18.30 Poster session with refreshments, mingling and poster prizes

Organizers: iCAN – iCANDOC – iCANPOD