16th Annual Symposium
Physics of Cancer
Leipzig, Germany
Sept. 22 - 24, 2025
 






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(preliminary)






Monday - September 22, 2025

From 10:00
Conference check-in
10:30 – 11:00
Opening & Welcome


DFG research group "Multiscale MRE: in vivo physics of cancer (FOR5628)"
11:00 – 11:15
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11:15 – 11:30
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11:30 – 11:45
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11:45 – 12:00
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12:00 – 13:15
Small lunch break
Session I: Mechanics of invasion and cell collectives
13:15 – 13:45
Opening Talk
The biomechanics of metastasis:
Life and death of tumor cells during organ colonization
Peter Friedl
(Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)
13:45 – 14:15
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Vivek Shenoy 
(University of Pennsylvania, USA)
14:15 – 14:30
Contributed talk
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30
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Andrea Disanza
(University of Milan, Italy)
15:30 – 15:45
Contributed talk
15:45 – 16:15
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Lisbeth Janssen
(Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
16:15 – 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 – 17:00
Contributed talk
17:00 – 17:30
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Jochen Guck
(MPI for the Science of Light, Germany)
17:30 – 18:00
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Bahriye Aktas
(University Hospital Leipzig, Germany)
from 19:00

Social event with buffet dinner



Tuesday - September 23, 2025



Session II: Mechanotransduction and matrix viscoelasticity
09:00 – 09:30
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Pere Roca-Cusachs Soulere
(IBEC Barcelona, Spain)
09:30 – 10:00
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Ben Goult
(University of Liverpool, GB)
10:00 – 10:15
Contributed talk
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15
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Paul Janmey
(University of Pennsylvania, USA)
11:15 – 11:30
Contributed talk
11:30 – 12:00
ECM Biophysics and Cancer: Mechanisms, Models, and Therapeutic Insights
Claudia Fischbach
(Cornell University, USA)
12:00 – 12:30
Mechanical characterization of neural organoids in development and disease
Friedhelm Serwane
(Ulm University, Germany)
12:30 – 17:00

P  O  S  T  E  R  S  E  S  S  I  O  N

- Young Scientist Awards -



Wednesday - September 24, 2025


Session III: Liquid crystalline states of (cancer) tissues
09:00 – 09:30
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Luca Giomi
(Leiden University, NL)
09:30 – 10:00
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Pedro Lowenstein
(University of Michigan, USA)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00
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Benoit Ladoux
(MPI for Physics and Medicine, Germany)
11:00 – 11:15
Contributed talk
11:15 – 11:45
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Jacques Prost
(Insitut Curie, France)
Session IV: Immuno/therapy-mechanics
11:45 – 12:15
Gas vesicles: Little bombs to drop on tumors
Françoise Brochard
(Institut Curie Paris, France)
12:15 – 12:30
Contributed talk
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00
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Hadi T. Nia
(Boston University, USA)
14:00 – 14:15
Contributed talk
14:15 – 14:45
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Jennifer Munson
(Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, USA)
14:45 – 15:15
Coffee break
15:15 – 15:30
Contributed talk
15:30 – 16:00
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Erik Danen
(Leiden University, NL)
16:00 – 16:15
Contributed talk
ca. 16:30
Closing remarks
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