We are pleased to announce this year’s DKFZ/NCT/DKTK HARPOON (HArmonization of Reporting in PrecisiOn ONcology) conference on new developments in precision oncology in Heidelberg, hosted by the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), and the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK):

Registration is open!

Please register here: Registration to DKFZ/NCT/DKTK HARPOON 2025

Date: November 27 + 28, 2025

Site: Heidelberg Congress Center, Czernyring 20, 69115 Heidelberg

Registration fee: 85 € (includes participation at all sessions & catering on both days, as well as reception on Thursday evening)

Scholarships: This year, DKFZ/NCT/DKTK HARPOON offers 10 competitive scholarships (covering registration fee, travel expenses and accommodation, max. 500 €). Please submit your application via the registration process.

Target audience: Everyone involved in multiomics-guided precision oncology and molecular tumor boards (bioinformaticians, data scientists, molecular biologists, pathologists, clinicians, clinical / medical trialists, patient advocates)

Content: The conference is intended to provide a platform for exchange and networking and to foster interaction between the One NCT, DKTK, and other networks. We expect highlight talks on precision oncology activities, including recent developments in multiomics data analysis (e.g., by artificial intelligence) as well as forward and reverse translation, underlining the central role of multidimensional tumor characterization as fuel for innovative clinical trials and scientific discovery in Germany and beyond.

As the program continues to evolve in response to current developments, it does not only feature cutting-edge research hightlights, but also includes several special elements, such as a presentation from patients involved in applied cancer research and insights from journal editors on scientific publishing in the precision oncology field.

Confirmed speakers of 2025:

Ana Banito (KiTZ Heidelberg)

Ruzhica Bogeska (Managing Editor, Molecular Oncology)

Cansu Cirzi (Scientific Editor, Cancer Cell)

Frederik Damm (Charité Berlin)

Sophia Danhof (UK Würzburg)

Joep de Ligt (Hartwig Medical Foundation, NL)

Keynote: Alena Gros (VHIO, ES)

Simon Haas (Charité Berlin)

Melanie Janning (UMM, Mannheim)

Frederik Klauschen (LMU, Munich)

Jan Korbel (EMBL Heidelberg)

Keynote: Norbert Kraut (Boehringer Ingelheim)

Simon Kreutzfeldt (NCT Heidelberg)

Peter Lichter (NCT Heidelberg)

Florian Markowetz (CRUK Cambridge Institute, UK)

Christoph Plass (Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Cancer)

Daniel Rauh (TU Dortmund)

Yasser Riazalhosseini (McGill University, CA)

Felix Sahm (UK Heidelberg)

Bastian Schwarz (Patient Advisory Council, DKFZ Heidelberg)

Jens Siveke (UK Essen)

Julien Vibert (Institut Gustave Roussy)

Nikolaus von Bubnoff (UK Schleswig-Holstein)

Ben Westphalen (LMU, Munich)

Lars Zender (UK Tübingen)

… more information can be found here: DKFZ/NCT/DKTK HARPOON

Organizer: DKFZ

Hosts: Stefan Fröhling, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg