Cambridge Lymphoma Biology International Symposium

The fourth Cambridge Lymphoma Biology International Symposium will bring together research scientists and clinicians with an interest in the biology of lymphoma and CLL. 

The meeting is designed to maximise interactive scientific discussions. This 2-day, fully in person symposium will be held 14-15th September 2026 at Magdalene College in the heart of Cambridge. It features a programme of expert speakers from across the UK, Europe and North America, as well as oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts. The poster session will include flash poster presentations and prizes.

Registration fee includes a drinks reception and gala dinner in the Great Hall of Magdalene College.

Register here by 11 September.

Please direct any questions to Luke Cheesbrough at admin@haem.cam.ac.uk 

CLBIS sponsors: Blood Cancer UK, BSH, Fisher Scientific, Leukaemia UK, Morpho Biotech, New England Biolabs, Twist Bioscence

Monday 14 September 

11:00     Registration, lunch and poster previewing

Session 1
13:00     Opening address
13:15     Michael Green (MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA)
              Mapping the spatial architecture of lymphoma
13:45     Martina Seiffert (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg) 
              Rethinking Immunotherapy for CLL and Related Lymphomas: New Biology, New Opportunities. 
14:15     José Ángel Martínez-Climent (University of Navarra, Spain)
              Genetically-driven immune states in ABC DLBCL: lessons from mouse models 
14:45     Selected abstract - TBC To be selected from submitted abstracts
15:00     Refreshments and exhibition

Session 2
15:45     Ari Melnick, Josep Carreras (Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)
              Distinct mechanisms of lymphomagenesis and precision therapy for lymphoma patients based on biological sex and genetic ancestry 
16:15     Sascha Dietrich (University of Düsseldorf, Germany) 
              Learning lymphoma biology at the single cell 
16:45     Dan Hodson (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, UK)
              Deciphering the genomics of aggressive lymphoma 
17:15     Flash poster presentations Five selected PhD students and postdocs
17:30     Drinks reception, Posters and Punting on the River Cam
19:30     Gala dinner, Magdalene College Hall

 

Tuesday 15 September 

Session 3
09:00     Laura Pasqualucci (Columbia University, New York, USA) 
              Decoding the dark genome of B cell lymphomas 
09:30     Elias Campo (Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Spain)
              Mantle cell lymphoma subclonal heterogeneity and evolution of the disease 
10:00     Dimitar Efremov (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy)
              Molecular drivers of Richter Transformation 
10:30     Selected abstract - TBC To be selected from submitted abstracts
10:45     Refreshments and exhibition

Session 4
11:15     Michael Hallek (University Hospital of Cologne, Germany)
              Signaling in the microenvironment of CLL 
11:45     Alexander Egle (Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria)
              It’s the signal, stupid! Or is it? Lessons from CLL 
12:15     Florian Scherer (University of Freiburg, Germany)
              CNS lymphomas – Molecular decoding of subtypes and noninvasive biomarker strategies 
12:45     Selected abstract - TBC To be selected from submitted abstracts
13:00     Lunch and poster presentations

Session 5
14:15     Iñaki Martín-Subero (IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain)
              Epigenetic memory in B cell tumors: decoding the past to predict the future 
14:45     Maike Buchner (Technical University Munich, Germany)
              Targeting signaling pathways in CLL 
15:15     David Scott (British Columbia Cancer, Vancouver, Canada)
              Illuminating the dark zone in DLBCL 
16:15     Closing remarks

Magdalene College
Magdalene Street
Cambridge
CB3 0AG