Best Oral and Poster Prizes
Plenary OFP Session / Best Oral Prizes
Out of all oral presentations, the best 6 will be selected based on their abstract score and quality before the congress.
The authors of those 6 will be invited via e-mail to present again during the Plenary Oral Free Paper Session on Tuesday, 15 September 2026.
The three best of the shortlisted 6 presentations will be awarded the First to Third Best Oral Prizes consisting of
- EUR 1,000 for the first and
- EUR 500 each for the second and for the third best oral presentation.
The winners were announced during the Closing Ceremony on Wednesday, 16 September 2026.
Best Poster Sessions / Best Poster Prizes
The congress will award prizes for the First to Third Best Posters.
Presenters in Best Poster Sessions qualify for these prizes. After each Best Poster Session, the respective session chair will announce the best presenter of the session.
Out of all session winners the 3 best will be selected and will be awarded the First to Third Best Poster Prizes consisting of
- EUR 1,000 for the first,
- EUR 500 for the second and
- EUR 250 for the third best poster.
The winners were announced during the Closing Ceremony on Wednesday, 16 September 2026.
2026 Awardees
Targeting cuproptosis uncovers metabolic vulnerabilities in glioblastoma stem cells
Gabriele Ricciardi
University of Messina, Italy
MTAP loss in gastrointestinal cancers: indicator for sensitivity to PRMT5 inhibition therapy and itsintra- and intertumoral heterogeneity
Su Ir Lyu
University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
Microproteins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a proteogenomic framework for biomarker discovery
Ido Livneh
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israell
Mapping cellular heterogeneity in primary and metastatic leiomyosarcoma with single-cell and spatial data
Andreas Mock
LMU Munich, Germany
HER2 in endometrial carcinoma: clinical impact of discrepancies between scoring criteria
Pedro Veiga
Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), Portugal
Can AI predict molecular drivers in real-time? A rapid digital pathology workflow for accelerated NSCLC profiling
Anastasia Mercurio
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Plenary OFP Session / Best Oral Prizes
Out of all oral presentations, the best 6 will be selected based on their abstract score and quality before the congress.
The authors of those 6 will be invited via e-mail to present again during the Plenary Oral Free Paper Session on Tuesday, 9 September 2025.
The three best of the shortlisted 6 presentations will be awarded the First to Third Best Oral Prizes consisting of
- EUR 1,000 for the first and
- EUR 500 each for the second and for the third best oral presentation.
The winners will be announced during the Closing Ceremony on Wednesday, 10 September 2025, and will receive information regarding the monetary grant via e-mail.
Best Poster Sessions / Best Poster Prizes
The congress will award prizes for the First to Third Best Posters.
Presenters in Best Poster Sessions qualify for these prizes. After each Best Poster Session, the respective session chair will announce the best presenter of the session.
Out of all session winners the 3 best will be selected and will be awarded the First to Third Best Poster Prizes consisting of
- EUR 1,000 for the first,
- EUR 500 for the second and
- EUR 250 for the third best poster.
The winners will be announced during the Closing Ceremony on Wednesday, 10 September 2025, and will receive information regarding the monetary grant via e-mail.