Program

Preliminary program 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2026	SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
9.00  OPENING	9.00 - 13.00 LECTURES
9.00 - 12.00 LECTURES
12.00 - 13.00 LUNCH
13.00 - 18.00 LECTURES
19:00 NETWORKING EVENT

 

INVITED LECTURES	SPEAKER	INSTITUTION
PRENATAL DIAGNOSTICS & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Detection of Occult Malignancies in Pregnant Women Using Cell-Free DNA	Diana W. BIANCHI	National Institutes of Health, USA
Future use of cfDNA in prenatal testing	Erik SISTERMANS	Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
Intra-amniotic inflammatory complication in pregnancy	Marian KACEROVSKY	Palacky University & University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic
Plasma Exosomal microRNA Profiles in Preterm Children: Associations with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia History and Current Echocardiographic Findings	Ilona HROMADNIKOVA	Charles University, Czech Republic
ONCOLOGY & LIQUID BIOPSY
Clinical utility of cfDNA and ctDNA in testicular germ cell tumors	Michal MEGO	Comenius University & National Cancer Institute, Slovakia
Improving early detection of cancer in Lynch Syndrome through liquid biopsy innovations	Mev DOMINGUEZ-VALENTIN	Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Advancing Early Cancer Detection: Translational Liquid Biopsy Studies at MMCI	Roman HRSTKA	Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Czech Republic
The role of whole genome sequencing in the diagnosis of hereditary colorectal cancer predisposition syndromes	Vince Kornél GROLMUSZ	National Institute of Oncology, Hungary
Translational Significance of microRNAs as Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer	Jasenka WAGNER KOSTADINOVIĆ	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
GENOMICS, BIOINFORMATICS & ANALYTICAL METHODS
Fragmentomics analysis of cell-free DNA as a new dimension for liquid biopsy	Wai Kei Jacky LAM	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Analysis of longitudinal cancer data in circulating DNA	Simone CICCOLELLA	University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Unraveling the genetics of cell-free DNA using GWAS	Jasper LINTHORST	Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands