A Keynote Lecture by Douglas Green (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Memphis, US) will open the conference. In the following, each of the four sessions will be introduced by either one or two Invited Lectures presented by internationally leading scientists (Session I: Sylvain Audibert , UK; Session II: Lara Barazzuol, NL / Daniel Wahl, US; Session III: Tim Illidge, UK / Monica Olcina, UK; Session IV: Costas Koumenis, US / Jason Holland, CH). Additionally, Poster presentations and Proffered Paper talks will cover the broad spectrum of research performed in each topic.