ISMRM Workshop on
Translational Cancer Imaging:
From Acronym to Actuality
calendar_month
12-14 March 2026
location_on
Madrid, Spain
ISMRM Workshop on
Translational Cancer Imaging:
From Acronym to Actuality
calendar_month
12-14 March 2026
location_on
Madrid, Spain
Preliminary Program
Day 1 - Thursday, 12 March 2026
07:30
Registration and Speaker Upload Available
08:30
Welcome
Session 1: Physicians’ Perspective on the Use of Imaging in Patient Care
Moderators: T.B.A.
08:40
T.B.A.
09:00
Use of Advanced Imaging in Prostate Cancer Staging, Radiation Treatment Planning and Surveillance
Curtiland Deville Jr., M.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
09:20
The Role of MRI in the Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment Selection of Cervical Cancer
T.B.A.
09:40
Breast MRI in Cancer Care: Clinical Utility, Evolving Evidence and Future Directions
T.B.A.
10:00
Round Table Discussion
Questions and Answers
10:30
Break and Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
11:00
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
11:30
Lunch and Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 2: Advanced MRI Techniques for Cancer
Moderators: T.B.A.
13:30
Diffusion MR Microscopy for Cancer Imaging
T.B.A.
13:50
Deuterium Metabolic Imaging for Cancer Research: Principles, Practice, and Potential
Evita C. Wiegers, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
14:10
MR Spectroscopy
T.B.A.
14:30
Amide Proton Transfer weighted CEST MRI in Cancers of the Brain and Beyond
T.B.A.
14:50
Round Table Discussion
Questions and Answers
15:00
Break and Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
15:30
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
16:00
Adjourn
Day 2 - Friday, 13 March 2026
07:30
Registration and Speaker Upload Available
Session 3: Applications of Cancer Imaging: Early Detection, Stratification, Genotyping, and Phenotyping
Moderators: Yan Li, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. and Mahsa Servati, Ph.D.
08:30
From Cells to Systems: Multi-Scale Cancer Imaging for Biomarker Discovery
T.B.A.
08:50
Detecting Oligo-Metastatic Disease in Prostate Cancer
T.B.A.
09:10
PET/MRI in Cancer: Lessons Learned Through Our 10-Year Journey
Tone F. Bathen, Ph.D.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway
09:30
Radiogenomics for Cancer Characterization: Insights from Kidney and Breast Malignancies
T.B.A.
09:50
Round Table Discussion
Questions and Answers
10:20
Break and Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
11:00
Negendank Lecture: MR Guided Interventions in Cancer
Clare M.C. Tempany-Afdhal, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
11:45
Questions and Answers
12:00
Lunch and Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 4: Applications of Cancer Imaging: Biomarkers for Prediction and Therapy Response Monitoring and Image-Guided Adaptive Therapy
Moderators: T.B.A.
14:00
Tumour Response to STING Activation Assessed with Multiparametric MRI
Simon P. Robinson, Ph.D.
The Institute of Cancer Research
Sutton, England, UK
14:20
Perfusion Imaging for Monitoring Brain Tumor Therapy
Jan Petr, Ph.D.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf
Dresden, Germany
14:40
Advanced Imaging in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Intra-Axial Brain Tumors
Max Krucoff, M.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
15:00
Round Table Discussion
Questions and Answers
15:30
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
16:00
Poster Session
18:00
Adjourn
Day 3 - Saturday, 14 March 2026
08:00
Registration and Speaker Upload Available
Session 5: Cancer Image Analysis: Omics, Mathematical Modeling and Deep-Learning Multimodality Imaging
Moderators: T.B.A.
08:30
Multimodal Learning in Neuro-Oncology: From Imaging Radiomics to Omics Integration
Anahita Kazerooni, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
08:50
Human Lung Cancer Evaluation with NMR Metabolomics
Leo L. Cheng, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
09:10
Breast MRI With Computational Modeling and Deep Learning
T.B.A.
09:30
Human Brain Tumor Evolution: Seeing Cells, Tracking Mutations and Exploiting Vulnerabilities
T.B.A.
09:50
Round Table Discussion
Questions and Answers
10:30
Adjourn