This year latest findings in melanoma research and advances on themes of paramount importance for melanoma prevention, diagnosis and treatment will be discussed in the sessions dedicated to the translational research in melanoma, tumor biology, primary resistance and emergent strategies on the progresses of melanoma research on biomarkers/precision medicine and on combination strategies.
Then, the Great Debate sessions, where counterpoint views from leading experts on specific and very actual controversial clinical issues will be presented and discussed from different points of view.
GENERAL INFORMATION
WHERE & WHEN
-
Royal Continental Hotel Naples,
Italy - December 1st-3rd, 2026
CALL FOR ABSTRACT
TOPICS
- Translational Research in Melanoma
- What have we learned from…
- Emergent Strategies
PRESIDENCY
Director of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, National Cancer Institute IRCCS Fondazione “G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
Director of Melanoma and Skin Tumor Surgery, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS Fondazione “G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
Rudolf Baer Professor of DermatologyProfessor, Departments of Medicine (Oncology) and Urology Director, NYU Melanoma SPORE Associate Dean for Clinical Research Strategy NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, US
Judith and Sanford Lipsey Chair in Clinical Cancer Research; Senior Vice President, Clinical Investigation Chief, Division of Melanoma, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, US
PRESIDENCY
Director of Department of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, National Cancer Institute IRCCS “Fondazione G. Pascale”, Naples, Italycierto
Corrado Caracò
Director of Melanoma and Skin Tumor Surgery, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS Fondazione “G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
Iman Osman
Rudolf Baer Professor of DermatologyProfessor, Departments of Medicine (Oncology) and Urology Director, NYU Melanoma SPORE Associate Dean for Clinical Research Strategy NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, US
Senior Vice President, Clinical Investigation; Professor of Oncology and Medicine, Director of Center for Early Phase Clinical Trials Division, Chief, Melanoma Section, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, US
SCIENTIFIC BOARD
Sanjiv S. Agarwala
Professor of Hematology & Oncology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, US
Paolo A. Ascierto
Director of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, National Cancer Institute IRCCS Fondazione “G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
Carlo Bifulco
Chief Medical Officer, Providence Genomics, Director of Translational Molecular Pathology, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, US
Christian Blank
Medical Oncology and Research Group Leader Tumor Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elizabeth M. Burton
Executive Director, Translational Research Initiative Development, Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, US
Lisa H. Butterfield
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, CA, US
Corrado Caracò
Director of Melanoma and Skin Tumor Surgery, National Cancer Institute, IRCCS Fondazione “G. Pascale”, Naples, Italy
Toni K. Choueiri
Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary (GU) Oncology and Medical Director of Strategic International Initiatives at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, US
Mary Dean
Executive Director, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), Milwaukee, WI, US
Sandra Demaria
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, US
Reinhard Dummer
Vice Director, Department of Dermatology; Director, Clinical Trials Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich (CCCZ), University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Alexander M.M. Eggermont
Chief Scientific Officer, Board of Directors, Princess Máxima Center; Professor of Clinical&Translational Immunotherapy, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Leisha A. Emens
Senior Vice President Translational Research, Ankyra Therapeutics, Incorporated, Boston, MA, US; Past President of Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)
Bernard A. Fox
Chief of Molecular and Tumor Immunology Laboratory, Robert W. Franz Cancer Center Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, US
Jerome Galon
Research Director, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Director, Integrative Cancer Immunology Team, Cordeliers Research Center, Paris, France
Jeffrey E. Gershenwald
Dr. John M. Skibber Endowed Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical Director, Melanoma and Skin Center, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, USA
James L. Gulley
Co-Director of the Center for Immuno-Oncology, Center for Cancer Research (CCR), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD, US; President of Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)
Omid Hamid
Chief of Research/ Immuno-Oncology, Co-Director, Cutaneous Malignancy Program, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, a Cedars Sinai Affiliate, Los Angeles, CA, US
Samir N. Khleif
Director of Center for Immunology and Immunotherapy, Director of The Loop Immuno-Oncology Laboratory, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC, US
Giuseppe Masucci
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology-Pathology and KcRN, Karolinska Institutet, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Olivier Michielin
Full Professor, Chair of Oncology Department and Precision Oncology Service, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva; Co-Director of the Swiss Cancer Center Léman, Agora – Lausanne, Switzerland
Iman Osman
Rudolf Baer Professor of DermatologyProfessor, Departments of Medicine (Oncology) and Urology Director, NYU Melanoma SPORE Associate Dean for Clinical Research Strategy NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, US
Giuseppe Palmieri
Full Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Sassari; Immuno-Oncology & Targeted Cancer Biotherapies, Sassari University Hospital; Associate Researcher, Head of Unit of Cancer Genetics, National Research Council (CNR); Head, Institute of Genetic & Biomedical Research (IRGB), Sassari, Italy
Michael A. Postow
Chief, Melanoma Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, US
Igor Puzanov
Judith and Sanford Lipsey Chair in Clinical Cancer Research; Senior Vice President, Clinical Investigation Chief, Division of Melanoma, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, US
Dirk Schadendorf
Director of the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
Magdalena Thurin
Program Director, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, US
Tara Withington
Executive Director Emeritus, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), Milwaukee, WI, US