Program 25 September 2025

08.00-08.30 | Registration

08.15 - 08.30 | Sponsored Session: Standard bio | Hyperion XTi: The gold standard for spatial proteomics—at scale, in detail, beyond limits | Filomena Spada  

Sessions Topic: New Modalities and Carcinogenicity Assessment
08.30 - 09.15 | Carcinogenic risks of CAR-T Cell Therapy | Ronnie Chamanza   

Sessions Topic: Data Interpretation
09.15 - 09.45 | Peer review of rodent carcinogenicity studies: Things to consider? | Matt Jacobsen

09.45 - 10.15 | Carcinogenicity Statistics – Part 1 (Basics) | Jim Saul

10.15 - 10.30 | A Guide to Combining Primary Tumors for Statistical Analysis in Carcinogenicity Studies | Alys Bradley

10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break, Poster Visits & Exhibition | Poster Authors to be present

11.00 - 11.40 | Carcinogenicity Statistics – Part 2 (Advanced) | Jim Saul

11.40 - 12.00 | Navigating the pathology minefield: Harnessing the value of historical background data | John Foster   

12.00 - 12.30 | Case Study - Human relevance and risk assessment of endocrine and reproductive system tumours in a rat carcinogenicity study of a small molecule  | Zuhal Dincer

12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch Break, Poster Visits & Exhibition

13.30 - 14.00 | Sponsored Session: Aira Matrix | The role of digital pathology as a service in streamlining preclinical workflows: a case study | Tijo Thomas   

14.00 - 14.45 | Challenges of Applying INHAND Nomenclature for Carcinogenicity Studies – Case Presentations | Ute Bach & Tanasa Osborne

14.45 - 15.00 | Poster Award Session & Presentation    

15.00-15.15 | INHAND Updates | Emily Meseck

15.15 - 15.30 | Interactive Case Presentation: AI-assisted Purkinje cell density baseline in 54 control cynomolgus macaques and sex comparison | Brieuc Cossic

15.30 - 16.15 | Coffee Break, Poster Visits & Exhibition

16.00 - 16.15 | Sponsored Session: Histofy | Beagle: your tox path study companion Nasir Rajpoot    

16.15-16.30 | Interactive Case Presentation: A nasal bone finding in CD1 mice | Marcia Pereira Bacares

16.30-16.45 | Interactive Case Presentation: Findings in cynomolgus monkeys following long-term exposure to an immunomodulatory biotherapeutic | Sébastien Laurent

16.45-17.00 | Interactive Case Presentation: Retrospective review of the pathological findings in diagnostic necropsy submissions of laboratory grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica) | Henry Miller

17.00 - 18.00 | Annual General Assembly ESTP - Hybrid    

19.30 - 01.00 | Congress Dinner | Science & Industry Museum