UKCGG Spring and Winter Meetings - Cancer Genetics Group

We host biannual conferences in Spring and Winter. These conferences include a mix of sessions, including themed sessions for which we invite guest speakers to give an overview of a particular topic of interest, sessions for updates from studies being run by UKCGG members/colleagues, and sessions for invited abstracts. Importantly, we also have Keynote Lectures - delivered by eminent and accomplished colleagues working on research that influences the care of patients with/at risk of inheriting risk factors for cancer.

Please see a list here below of some of our previous fantastic keynote lecture speakers.

Meeting	Speaker	Topic
Spring 2023	Professor Julia Newton-Bishop	Moles, Melanoma, and other cancers in “Melanoma” Families
Winter 2022	Prof Glenn McCluggage	Hereditary Gynaecological Tumour Syndromes - the Critical Role of the Pathologist
Winter 2021	Prof Julian Sampson	Characterisation of inherited and somatic variation in polyposis syndromes provides insights into cancer and ageing
Winter 2020	Prof Anneke Lucassen	Ethics and Cancer Genetic Practice - An Optional Extra or Essential Ingredient?
Winter 2019	Prof Rosalind Eeles	Prostate Cancer - From Genes to Management
Spring 2019	Prof Gareth Evans	NF2
Winter 2018	Prof Serena Nik Zainal	Utilising the totality of mutagenesis in Whole Genome sequenced tumours for clinical applications
Winter 2017	Prof Richart Houlston	Defining the Unknown Unknowns of Colorectal Cancer
Spring 2017	Dr Darren Hargreave	Precision Medicine in Childhood Cancer
Winter 2016	Prof Martin Widschwendter	New Concepts of Risk Prediction and Cancer Prevention in BRCA carriers
Winter 2015	Dr Jonathan Ledermann	PARP inhibitors in Ovarian Cancer
Spring 2015	Prof Julian Sampson	Role of Rapamycin in Tuberous Sclerosis
Winter 2013	Prof Trevor Powles	Chemoprevention
Spring 2013	Prof Tim Bishop	Current insights into the contributions of genetic predisposition to cancer incidence in the general population