Scientific program

Wednesday, 04.11.2026

12:00 - 13:00

Welcome reception

13:00 - 13:15

Welcome note

Christine Sers

Reinhold Schäfer

Björn Papke

13:15 - 14:00

Keynote

13:15 - 14:00

Keynote: Unlocking RAS: combinations are the key

Channing J. Der

14:00 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 17:55

Session 1: RAS Biology

Chair: Christine Sers, Charité Berlin (Germany)

14:30 - 15:15

Spatiotemporal KRAS gnalling in PDAC: From subclonal evolution to stromal–immune niches

Dieter Saur

15:15 - 15:35

Short talk

Melissa Klingeberg

15:35 - 15:55

Short talk

Sina Löwe

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:15

RAS Dosage

Roland Rad

17:15 - 17:35

Short talk

Pankaj Singroul

17:35 - 17:55

Short talk

Denise Schlösser

18:00 - 18:10

Welcome to AEK

Rainer Engers

19:00

Dinner

Thursday, 05.11.2026

09:00 - 12:45

Session 2: RAS Biology and RAS resistance

Chair: Björn Papke, Charité Berlin (Germany)

09:00 - 09:45

Targeting RAS in lung cancer

Matthias Drosten

09:45 - 10:05

Short talk

Vinuri Dileshi Bulathsinhala

10:05 - 10:25

Short talk

Nina Heisterkamp

10:25 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:20

Short talk

Jonas Buchloh

11:20 - 12:05

Targeting RAS - an Industry Perspective

Özlem Yüce Petronczki

12:05 - 12:25

Welcome address Deutsche Krebshilfe

Christian Reinhardt

12:25 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:30

Session 3: RAS clinical perspective

Chair: Silvestre Vicent Cambra, CIMA, University of Navarra, Pamplona (Spain)

14:00 - 14:45

Leveraging the KRAS oncogene distal output for drug combination strategies

Silvestre Vicent Cambra

14:45 - 15:05

Short talk

Timo Krassuski

15:05 - 15:25

Short talk

Estefania Isay Martinez Acosta

15:25 - 15:45

Short talk

Hendrik Schürmann

15:45 - 16:15

Coffee break

16:15 - 17:00

Inside and around the cancer cell: KRAS and beyond

Jens Siveke

17:00 - 17:03

Poster flash talk

Zhangshuai Dai

17:03 - 17:06

Poster flash talk

Kudor Harb

17:06 - 17:09

Poster flash talk

Sven Treffert

17:09 - 17:12

Poster flash talk

Sanjibani Sanyal

17:12 - 17:15

Poster flash talk

Bavishya Suresh Manju Bashini

17:15 - 17:18

Poster flash talk

Subir Biswas

18:30

Poster session with finger food

Friday, 06.11.2026

09:00 - 12:30

Session 4: RAS and immune system

Chair: Channing J. Der, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (USA)

09:00 - 09:45

The immunology perspective

Antonia Busse

09:45 - 10:05

Short talk

Afonso Teixeira da Mota

10:05 - 10:50

RAS resistance PDAC

Christine Sers

10:50 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:00

Beyond the cancer cell: RAS and the immune microenvironment

Miriam Molina-Arcas

12:00 - 12:20

Short talk

Tobias Thumm

12:20 - 14:00

Award Ceremony, Lunch and Farewell