ERN GENTURIS conference 2025

ERN GENTURIS online conference 2025

What's new in hereditary cancer?

The ERN GENTURIS online conference 2025 was held on Thursday 20 March 2025 and was a great success! Videos of the conference presentations will be made available on this page when the editing of the recordings has been completed.

The conference flyer, including QR-codes linking to this page, is available here

 
Programme

The conference featured updates on the ERN GENTURIS new guidelines, patient's concerns, research, new treatments and the future of hereditary cancer.

A printable pdf version of the programme is available here.

09:00 - 10:15 CET : NEW GUIDELINES

Moderator: Verena Steinke-Lange

Time

Speaker

Title

09:00 - 09:05 Mateja Krajc Opening of the conference
09:05 - 09:25 Chrystelle Colas Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency (CMMRD)
09:25 - 09:45 Marianne Geilswijk Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
09:45 - 10:05 Rianne Oostenbrink Neurofibromatosis type 1
10:05 - 10:15 All session speakers Discussion

 

10:15 - 10:20 CET : SHORT BREAK

10:20 - 11:30 CET : PATIENT'S CONCERNS

Moderator: Claas Röhl

Time

Speaker

Title

10:20 - 10:40 Anke Oerlemans Family planning, Newborn screening /Ethical issues
10:40 - 11:00 Rolf Sijmons ERN Registry (the latest progression and patient portal)
11:00 - 11:20 Matt Bolz-Johnson Mental Health (how do rare conditions impact family and social relationships?)
11:20 - 11:30 All session speakers Discussion

  

11:30 - 12:40 CET : LUNCH BREAK

12:40 - 14:30 CET : RESEARCH

Moderator: Karin Wadt

Time

Speaker

Title

12:40 - 13:00 Richarda de Voer Solve-RD - solving the unsolved rare diseases
13:00 - 13:20 Carla Oliveira PREVENTABLE project: sustainable care for rare tumour risk syndromes
13:20 - 13:40 Jolanda de Vries Harnessing the Immune System to Prevent Lynch Syndrome-Associated Cancers: Promising Results with Dendritic Cell Vaccination Targeting Frameshift Mutations.
13:40 - 14:00 Lise Borgwardt What’s new in imaging: total body PET/CT and its potential role for cancer predisposition surveillance
14:00 - 14:20 Verena Steinke-Lange Evolution of liquid biopsy methods for colorectal cancer screening
14:20 - 14:30 All session speakers  Discussion

 

14:30 - 14:35 CET : SHORT BREAK

14:35 - 16:05 CET : NEW TREATMENTS

Moderator: Svetlana Bajalica Lagercrantz

Time

Speaker

Title

14:35 - 14:55 Marjolijn Ligtenberg Molecular cancer profiles open the way to personalized treatment options for patients with a BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant
14:55 - 15:15 Judith Balmaña PARPi – indications and mainstreaming
15:15 - 15:35 Antonella Cacchione NF1 and new treatments
15:35 - 15:55 Eamonn Maher VHL and inherited renal cancer syndromes and new treatments
15:55 - 16:05 All session speakers Discussion

 

16:05 - 16:10 CET : SHORT BREAK

16:10 - 17:00 CET : THE FUTURE OF HEREDITARY CANCER

Moderator: Tiina Kahre

Time

Speaker

Title

16:10 - 16:30 Svetlana Bajalica Lagercrantz Future perspectives in the era of mainstream testing
16:30 - 16:40 All session speakers Discussion
16:40 - 17:00 Nicoline Hoogerbrugge The past and the future of ERN GENTURIS

 

17:00 CET : END OF CONFERENCE

 

Scientific and organising committee:

Mateja Krajc (Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Svetlana Bajalica Lagercrantz (Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden)
Verena Steinke-Lange (Medizinisch Genetisches Zentrum, Germany)
Karin Wadt (Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Denmark)
Tiina Kahre (Tartu University Hospital, Estonia)
Claas Röhl (NF Kinder, Austria)
Jurriaan Hölzenspies (Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen)