Day 3
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2026

SESSION 4

Enabling and disabling metastasis by innate immune cells
(part 1)


Chair:
Leo Carlin

All talks will take place at Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.

Welcome

09:15

09:20

Tim Halim, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Title to be confirmed

Short talk 7 - Aitana Guiseris Martinez, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
"An oncofetal immune-regulatory cancer cell state drives immune evasion during early metastasis"

09:50

Rahul Roychoudhuri, University of Cambridge
"Immune interception of cancer metastasis"

Sponsored by:

10:05

Lai Guan Ng, School of Medicine, Westlake University
"Neutrophils: Born Different, Adapted for Purpose"

10:35

Comfort break

11:05

Short talk 8 - Gemma Cairns, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute
"Integrin activation-dependent neutrophil slowing obstructs the capillaries of the pre-metastatic lung in a model of breast cancer"

11:30

Ilaria Malanchi, The Francis Crick Institute
"Innervation-Driven Cellular Priming"

11:45

Short talk 9 - Leqi Tang, University of Cambridge
"Hyperactivation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) in T cells mediates IFNγ-dependent protection from lung metastasis"

12:15

Poster taster session
Anna Gorbunova / Jing Xuan Lim / Ross McInnes / Alicia Nieto Valle / Paul Moritz Tarlatt / Catherine Winchester

12:30

Poster session & Trade exhibition (lunch included)

13:00

SESSION 4

Enabling and disabling metastasis by innate immune cells
(part 2)


Chair:
Colin Steele

Adrienne Boire, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title to be confirmed

15:00

Keynote speaker
Karin E. de Visser, Netherlands Cancer Institute
"Eosinophils as unexpected regulators of anti-tumor immunity"

Sarah Walmsley, University of Edinburgh
"Repairing neutrophil immunity"

15:30

16:00

Conclude day 3

17:00

Ceilidh Dinner @ Òran Mór (entry by ticket only)

19:30