ICPOC 2026 Speakers

Professor

Thomas J. Webster

Brown University, United States

Title: Anti-cancer nanomedicine in humans: A review and future directions

Professor Emeritus

Rajvir Dahiya

University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, United States

Title: Precision oncology and blood-based mRNA genomics technology for cancer diagnosis and treatment

Founder and CEO

Anyou Wang

DIFIBER LLC, United States

Title: Deep systems insights into the conceptual breakthrough of the noncoding RNA functional network and its role in cancer

Professor

Michael Thompson

University of Toronto, Canada

Title: Multiplexed sensor-based detection of biomarkers for early-stage ovarian cancer

Professor

Paulo Cesar De Morais

Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil

Title: Prospecting fluorine-doped graphene in photodynamic therapy

Vice-Director

Sergey Suchkov

N.D. Zelinskii Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

Title: Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) through the view of biodesign-inspired translational research: An option for clinical oncologists, caregivers and consumers to secure the human biosafety

Doctor of Science

Dmitri Lapotko

Scorpido Photonics, Inc, United States

Title: Non-stationary external energy mechanisms in cancer diagnostics and treatment

Strategy Consultant

Tanja Obradovic

Oncology Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Novotech, United States

Title: How to chose right Clinical Research Organization (CRO) partner when developing new cancer drug while meeting challenges of current critical trends in oncology drug development?

President

Shangzhi David Xu

Pharmconsulting LLC, United States

Title: Accelerating precision therapy: AI-driven PK/PD modeling in antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) development

Medical Oncology Specialist

Abu Saleh Md Taher

Royal Marsden Hospital, United Kingdom

Title: Beyond BRCA: Challenges in defining clinically actionable homologous recombination deficiency in breast cancer

PhD Student

Emily Shaw

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Title: Using the national cancer registry to explore health inequalities in renal cell carcinoma in England

Sebastiano Venturi

Department of Public Health of Rimini, Italy

Title: Iodine and Caesium-137: Angels and demons of evolutionary biology, in pancreatic cancer and diabetes

Eleni Petsalaki

University of Crete, Greece

Title: Actin polymerization prevents chromatin bridge breakage in cytokinesis in human cancer cells via a new tension sensitive mechanism

Associate Professor

Constantinos M Mikelis

University of Patras, Greece

Title: The small GTPase RhoA regulates the endothelial barrier during metastasis

Medical Doctor

Jan Karl Mendez

Southern Philippines Medical Center, Philippines

Title: Case report: Synchronous double primary carcinoma of invasive ductal carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma

General Surgery Resident

Zaldy Calipes Cabrera

Department of Surgery, Philippines

Title: “Beyond Neonates: Adult type IV sacrococcygeal teratoma” A 24-year-old female with a presacral Mass – Case report

Saba Beigh

Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia

Title: Molecular disruption of pulmonary surfactant proteins by airborne pollutants: An integrative in-silico toxicology approach

Ahmed Mohamed Farghly

Al-Rayan National Colleges, Saudi Arabia

Title: Modulation of the ACLY–AMPK axis by bempedoic acid suppresses NF-?B-driven inflammation, VEGF–notch angiogenic crosstalk, and cell-cycle progression in solid ehrlich carcinoma

Professor

Jose Luis Braga de Aquino

Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil

Title: Early and late evaluation of palliative surgical treatment of advanced esophageal cancer

Professor

Rodolfo Gabriel Figueroa Saavedra

Universidad de La Frontera, Chile

Title: Precise deep detection of tumoral biomarkers using large-scale confocal x-ray fluorescence

Medical Doctor

Alexandru C Grigorescu

Department of Medical Oncology, Romania

Title: Real world cancer pain incidence and treatment in daily hospital

Director of Physics

K R Muralidhar

Karkinos Healthcare, India

Title: Non-coplanar volumetric modulated Arc therapy for brain tumours using an o-ring gantry linear accelerator: A dosimetric evaluation

Neema Tiwari

Postgraduate Institute of Child Health, India

Title: Cancer stem cell marker CD133 expression and clinicopathological profile in lung carcinoma

Associate Professor

Can Kucuk

Dokuz Eylul University, Turkiye

Title: Diagnostic and therapeutic significance of EZH2 and STAT6 mutations detected by targeted deep sequencing of plasma cfDNA with implications for personalized medicine in follicular lymphoma

Associate Researcher

Zheng Weihui

Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, China

Title: The association of gene mutation and neck lymph node metastasis in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma

Director

Parvinder Singh

Advanced Cancer Institute, India

Title: Patient reported outcome measures following oncoplastic breast surgery: “An institutional experience”

PhD Student

Shanza Waseem

Sichuan University, China

Title: Precision oncology in gynecologic cancers: Molecular taxonomy, biomarker-guided therapeutics, and the challenge of therapeutic resistance

Yangyang Cai

Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Title: Clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of mucinous breast carcinoma

Associate Professor

Shuying Chen

Fudan University, China

Title: RNA theranostics in cancer

Associate Research Fellow

Chen Wang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Title: Molecular glue-mediated degradation of PELO reveals a novel therapeutic opportunity in microsatellite instability-high colorectal cancer

Physician

Yacob mathai Kunnathazhath

Marma Health Centre, India

Title: A new universal fever definition and the unscientific nature of the conservative fever definition.

MBBS Intern

Sahitya Kr Jasu

Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital, India

Title: Divergent effects of obesity on serum tumour markers: A cross sectional study at a tertiary care hospital in eastern India

MBBS Intern

Atul Kumar Sharma

Aiims Nagpur, India

Title: The pre-invasive neural niche: A systematic review of distance-dependent transcriptomic injury in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Jiaping Tang

School of Medicine, Southeast University, China

Title: Acetyl CoA carboxylase 1 downregulation promotes esophageal squamous cell carcinoma metastasis by activating the CXCL8–neutrophil extracellular trap axis

Li Jinze

The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, China

Title: NK cell–associated LncRNA signature predicts prognosis and immune landscape in hepatocellular carcinoma

Yuxuan Li

The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, China

Title: NK cell-associated long non-coding RNAs reveal heterogeneity of colorectal cancer immune microenvironment

Associate Professor

Zi han Wang

Breast Surgery Department Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, China

Title: Comparison of single-port robotic breast conserving surgery and conventional open pattern for early breast cancer

Vladan Radosavljevic

Institute of epidemiology, Military Medical Academy, Serbia

Title: Assessing human exposure to key chemical carcinogens diagnostic approaches and interpretation

Ling Yin

Vice Dean, College of Life Sciences, Weifang Institute of Technology, China

Title: Targeting hspd1 attenuates neuroinflammation and promotes functional recovery after intracerebral hemorrhage

Associate Professor

Saba Bei

Albaha University, Saudi Arabia

Title: To be updated shortly...

Yin Liu

Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, China

Title: Integrative analysis reveals immune heterogeneity and immune regulatory genes in KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma

JiaLiang Chen

Shaanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China

Title: Polyphyllin D inhibits chaperone-mediated autophagy by targeting the HSC70-LAMP2A interaction in non-small cell lung cancer

Fellow

Anu Jose

The University Hospital of West Indies, Jamaica

Title: To be updated shortly...

MBBS Student

Abir Biswas

Sher-E- Bangla Medical College, Bangladesh

Title: Effect of posaconazole compared to other antifungal drugs in survival & prevention of infection in patients with haematological malignancy: A systematic review

Medical Researcher

Labeeq Qureshi

Isra University, Pakistan

Title: GLS-guided cardioprotective therapy for the prevention of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Charles Ekene Chika

University of Nigeria, Nigeria

Title: Progresses in dual energy computed tomography approach for proton stopping power ratio computation in radiotherapy

Radhouane Achour

University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Title: Choriocarcinoma following live birth: Case Report

Vice President

Mehdi Ajri khameslou

Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Title: The effect of laughter therapy on anxiety of patients undergoing chemotherapy

Erhayanmen Omo Michael

Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria

Title: Knowledge, attitude and practice of prostate cancer screening among male residents in irrua community, esan central LGA, edo state

Gazy Abdalla Ahmed Ebrahim

University of Science and Technology, Sudan

Title: Current status of cancer immunotherapy in lebanon, Sudan, and Iraq: A descriptive and analytical pilot cross-sectional study of implementation barriers and opportunities

Vladimir S Shchukin

Honorary Academician of the International Academy of Sciences and Innovative Technologies (IASIT), Ukraine

Title: Solving the cancer problem as a trigger for solving other human problems

PhD Candidate

Godwin Offumobi Ogar

University of Lagos, Nigeria

Title: Toxicological profiling and safety evaluation of chitosan-quercetin nanoformulation (CS-QT NPS) in sprague-dawley rats: A preclinical assessment for lung cancer therapy

Pulmonologist

Rahmat Hidayat

Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia

Title: Effectiveness of curcuma and snakehead fish (channa striata) extract supplementation on CD8+ enhancement in Patients with non-small cell lung cancer undergoing chemotherapy