Swedish Cancer Research Meetings 2012-2025
The Strategic Research Programmes in Cancer: U-CAN from Uppsala/Umeå, BioCARE from Lund/Göteborg, and StratCan from Karolinska Institutet, meet yearly for a joint national meeting on cancer research.
Photo: n/a7th Cancer Swedish Research Meeting in Malmö
Register for the up-coming Swedish Cancer Research Meeting 22-23 May 2025 in Malmö!
The meeting is open to all clinical, preclinical researchers and others with an interest in cancer research from the organizing universities.
The four keynote speakers are Douglas Hanahan, Jana de Boniface, Anna Blom, and Julian Downward. The meeting hosts plenary sessions on the themes: Immunotherapy, Prevention and Biomarker Implementation.
Registration is now open. Registration deadline is 30 April 2025.
Venue: Clarion Hotel & Congress Malmö Live
Host: Lund University Cancer Centre
Organizers: Lund University Cancer Centre - LUCC, Karolinska Institutet - Cancer Research KI, Uppsala & Umeå Universities – U-CAN, University of Gothenburg - Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research - SCCR, Linköping University – Linköping Cancer Center - LCC
6th Swedish Cancer Research Meeting
The 6th Swedish Cancer Research Meeting was held on 16-17th of May-2023 at Aula Medica,Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm. The meeting was arranged jointly by Cancer Research KI, U-CAN from Uppsala and Umeå University, Lund University Cancer Centre, and Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research.
5th Swedish Cancer Research Meeting
The 5th Swedish Cancer Research Meeting was held in Umeå, October 3-4, 2019. The meeting was open to all members of U-CAN, BioCARE, and StratCan.
4th Swedish Cancer Research Meeting
The 4th Swedish Cancer Research meeting was held November 7-8, 2016 at the Wallenberg conference center in Gothenburg.
3rd Swedish Cancer Research Meeting
The Swedish Cancer Research Meeting 2014 was held September 2-3, 2014 at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
2nd Swedish Cancer Research Meeting
The 2nd Swedish Cancer Research Meeting was held in Uppsala, November 7-8, 2013. The meeting was open for clinical and preclinical researchers at universities with activities in any of the three strategic cancer research projects U-CAN, BioCARE, and StratCan. The meeting attracted some 300 participants, successfully serving as a meeting point for cancer researchers nationally.
The program included plenary sessions and workshops on the themes: Translational research on patient cohorts, Preclinical research as a basis for new therapies, Metastasis. In addition, there were short presentations by SFO members about ongoing research in the SFO projects and poster sessions.
1st Swedish Cancer Research Meeting
The 1st Swedish Cancer Research Meeting Meeting was held November 8-9, 2012 at Hilton Hotel, Malmö.