Onsite guide and abstracts

Welcome to Defence is the Best Attack! This page brings together all the information you’ll need while attending this EACR conference. 

Quick Links

• Scientific programme
• Digital abstracts and posters (please be patient; this page takes a few seconds to load)
• Participant list (you received the password by email on Friday 09 May)
• Venue map
• Solo travellers
• Code of conduct including photography and social media policy
• List of sponsors and exhibitors
• Lost your pocket programme? Download a PDF version here

Wi-Fi access

Free WiFi is available at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum with the following details.   

Network: EVENTOS_COSMOCAIXA_BCN  
Password: provided in the programme book and onsite signage

Arrival at the venue

Please enter through the main entrance of CosmoCaixa, which is at Carrer d'Isaac Newton, 26. Enter the museum, follow the ‘EACR Conference’ signs and go past the information point, taking the escalators or stairs on the left to floor -1. The EACR registration desk will be in the area near to the ticket barriers.  You can register from 11:30 CEST on Tuesday 13 May. Once registered you will be given your conference badge, entry ticket and pocket programme. An entry ticket will be issued each day so please make sure to show your badge at the registration desk on Wednesday and Thursday morning to pick up your ticket for each day. Please keep your daily ticket safe as replacements may incur an additional cost.  You may enter and depart the building at any time during the published opening hours.

If you notified us of any dietary requirements, these will be listed on the back of your badge in both English and Spanish. Please ensure you always wear your name badge while you're at the conference. 

You are welcome to leave your coat and luggage in the luggage storage area located by to the registration desk, but please note that this is an unsupervised area and personal items are left there at your own risk.

Poster presenters of poster numbers 1 – 5 and 26 - 101 can display their poster on their assigned board as soon as they are registered. The boards are 100cm wide by 200cm tall (portrait) and posters should be no larger than 90cm wide by 140cm tall (portrait). Please find your designated poster board (the correct poster number will be in the corner of each board) and attach your poster. Poster presenters of poster numbers 6 – 25 and 102 - 158 can display their posters on their assigned boards from lunch time on Wednesday 14 May (13:00 – 14:00). Materials to attach your poster will be provided for you. 

PLEASE NOTE: There are two designated poster areas (see floorplan) ‘Espai Hipatia’ (25 poster boards) and ‘Espai Agora’ (15 poster boards).

Click here to see a map of the venue

Above: Participants enjoying a Poster Discussion Session at a previous EACR Defence is the Best Attack confernece in Barcelona.

Proffered papers

25 Proffered Papers will be presented in 5 dedicated sessions during the conference, as follows:

Tuesday 13 May, 17:25 – 18:25

Poster 1 - Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford, UK) – ‘Engineering TCR-controlled Fuzzy Logic into CAR T-Cells Enhances Therapeutic Specificity’

Poster 2 - Victor Arias (Haartman Institute - University of Helsinki, Finland) – ‘Unveiling the role of neutralizing antibodies as complementary effectors in oncolytic adenovirus immunotherapy’

Poster 3 - Catarina M Azevedo (i3S, Portugal) – ‘Reprogramming CD8+ T cell branched N-glycosylation limits exhaustion, enhancing cytotoxicity and tumor killing: impact in cancer immunotherapy’

Poster 4 - Lilian Marie Boll (Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Spain) – ‘Refining Immunotherapy Response Prediction in Advanced Bladder Cancer’

Poster 5 - Clara Bueno (Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute, Spain) – ‘Armoured-CAR T cell-redirecting immunotherapy for metastatic and refractory Ewing Sarcoma’

Wednesday 14 May, 08:30 – 09:30

Poster 8 - Laura Carrillo-Bosch (VHIO, Spain) – ‘Evaluating Immunotherapy Responses in Glioblastoma Through Patient-Derived Tumor Tissue Cultures (PDTTCs)’

Poster 9 - Silvia Casacuberta-Serra (Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)/ Peptomyc S.L., Spain) – ‘MYC Inhibition Reprograms Tumor Immunity and Enhances Immunotherapy Efficacy in KRAS Mutant NSCLC’

Poster 10 - Owen Crump (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) – ‘Novel replication repair-deficient glioma mouse model provides insight and preclinical basis for immunotherapies’

Poster 11 - Marta Cuenca (UMC Utrecht, Netherlands) – ‘Sequential treatment strategies to increase sensitivity of multiple myeloma cells to BCMA CAR T cells’

Poster 12 - Kristina Draganic (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) – ‘Priming the Aggressive TAM Subset: Investigating TSP1-Driven Macrophage Polarization in Colorectal Cancer’

Wednesday 14 May, 12:00 – 13:00

Poster 13 - Marta Duenas (CIEMAT, Spain) – ‘CD44v6-Specific CAR-NK Cells: A Novel Approach to Precision Medicine in Bladder Cancer’

Poster 14 - Filippo Folchini (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy) – ‘Fractioned radiotherapy empowers TCR/CAR-T cells in preclinical settings and reveals immunomodulatory properties in prostate cancer patients’

Poster 15 - Iosifina Foskolou (Sanquin, Netherlands) – ‘Epitranscriptomics in CD8+ T Cells: A New Layer of Immune Regulation’

Poster 16 - Cayetano Galera-Martinez (VHIO, Spain) – ‘Understanding the Role of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) in the Bone Metastatic Microenvironment’

Poster 17 - Andrea Garcia-Garijo (VHIO, Spain) – ‘Exploiting circulating lymphocytes and cell-free DNA as a source to develop minimally-invasive personalized T-cell therapies’

Wednesday 14 May, 17:00 – 18:00

Poster 7 - Jesusa Capera (University of Oxford, UK) – ‘Harnessing the synaptic synergy between T cell receptor and Interleukin-2 receptor for cancer immunotherapy’

Poster 6 - Cecilia Cabrera (Fundación irsiCaixa, Spain) – ‘A Heterologous Prime-Boost Strategy using RUTI Vaccine to Improve the BCG Response in Non–Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Patients (RUTIVAC-1 Trial)’

Poster 18 - Ana Janic (University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain) – ‘Inhibition of nonsense mediated mRNA decay induces tumour immunosurveillance and reduces growth of hypermutated tumours’

Poster 19 - Sunam Mander (The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKIds), Canada) – ‘Neoantigen based mRNA LNP Vaccine for Cancer Immunoprevention in Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency (CMMRD) Syndrome’

Poster 20 - Vienna Mazzoli (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) – ‘Replication repair deficient isocitrate dehydrogenase mutant gliomas have a unique genomic and immune profile resulting in favorable response to combination immune and targeted therapy’

Thursday 15 May, 08:30 – 09:30

Poster 21 - Dane Newman (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia) – ‘A role for IL-1 family cytokines and T cell receptor activation signals in propagating stem-like T cell phenotypes with potent anti-tumour activity’

Poster 25 - Eudald Felip (Institut Catala Oncologia, Spain) – ‘Circulating TIM-3 levels are associated to CDK4/6i therapeutic response in HR+/HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer’

Poster 22 - Eduard Porta-Pardo (Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Spain) – ‘Spatial biomarkers of response to neoadjuvant therapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: the DUTRENEO trial’

Poster 23 - Aliisa Tiihonen (Tampere University, Finland) – ‘Hypoxia shapes Tumor Immune Microenvironment Through Cell-Type Dependent Responses in Diffuse Astrocytomas’

Poster 24 - Anna Yuste-Estevanez (Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Spain) – ‘H-SPOT: High-Throughput Screening for Public Oncogenic Targets for T-Cell Therapy’

Solo travellers

If you are a solo traveller, attending the conference on your own, then please feel free to join us at the EACR Banner in the catering area during the afternoon coffee break on Day 1 (between 15:10 and 15:40) to connect with fellow solo attendees. Our friendly EACR staff and Ambassadors will be on hand to assist you, answer questions and offer insights into local dining spots and noteworthy attractions. 

Refreshments 

We will be providing refreshments during our designated Coffee Breaks as well as providing a selection of food during the lunch breaks on Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference.

Dietary Requirements (by prior arrangement only): Please identify yourself to the serving staff. Confirmed dietary requirements will be detailed on the reverse of your conference badge.

Welcome Reception

Tuesday 13 May, 18:30 - 19:30 

Taking place on the Terrace on the first evening, our welcome reception will give participants the opportunity to meet new colleagues and reconnect with friends. A light buffet and welcome drinks will be served for all participants and exhibitors to enjoy.

Conference Dinner

Wednesday 14 May (20:30 CEST)

The Conference Dinner will be taking place on the final evening of the conference in ‘The Flooded Forest’ (Floor -5) within the CosmoCaixa Science Museum. If you have already registered for the Conference Dinner, this will be listed on your conference badge. If you expected to have a Conference Dinner ticket but did not receive one, then please come to the EACR registration desk during a coffee break.

It is important that you bring your participant badge with you to ‘The Flooded Forest’ (Floor -5) for access otherwise you may not be permitted entry. 

Please arrive from 20:00 and no later than 20:30.

Above: The Flooded Forest, CosmoCaixa

Venue
Flooded Forest CosmoCaixa
C/Isaac Newton, 26
08022 Barcelona
Spain

Local Printing

If you need to print out your poster during the conference, the following local printing companies are close by:

Printmarc
printmarc@printmarc.com
https://www.printmarc.com/
Tel. +34 66 760 25 26 / +34 93 010 47 31

CopyStart
imprimir@copystart.com
https://www.copystart.com/
Tel. +34 93 418 22 11

Gráficas Cosialls
graficascosialls@hotmail.com
https://graficascosialls.com/
Tel. +34 932 127 062 / +34 632 127 062

Workcenter Muntaner
muntaner.barcelona@workcenter.es
https://www.workcenter.es/workcenter-muntaner
Tel. +34 93 434 05 55

Digital Abstracts and Posters

We’re working to reduce the environmental impact of our conferences, which is why we’re providing as much information as we can digitally. Please note that we are no longer providing notebooks at our conferences.  

The pocket programme you’ll receive contains the scientific programme and an index of poster titles. All the speaker and poster abstracts, as well as optional digital posters, are available in our searchable Digital Abstracts and Posters area (online from Friday 09 May 2025)

EACR onsite team

We aim to recycle as many badges as possible and so it would be really helpful if you could hand yours to the EACR staff after use.

Above: participants networking at previous EACR conferences.