17th International Melanoma Pathology Workshop

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Contact Sarah DeJoy, Registration Specialist at (866)-792-5399 or by email at SarahD@sswmeetings.com

The Melanoma Research Foundation's CURE OM Initiative invites the ocular melanoma research community to join us for the 14th Annual CURE OM Global Science Meeting.

Saturday, October 25th, 8:00am – 4:30pm

See 2025 CURE OM Global Science Meeting

For more information, contact cureom@melanoma.org.

Pre-SMR Trainee Meeting

For the third time, we are excited to bring together a group of trainees who are passionate about melanoma research and will form the nucleus of our future leadership. Our goal is to bring together trainees from all over the world and provide a platform for young researchers to network and integrate into the broader melanoma community.

The meeting will occur from 8:30AM – 4PM just prior to the opening plenary session of the main SMR meeting. We will have 15-20 individual slots for oral presentations (selected by the organizing committee). There will also be a lunch workshop and the possibility to chat with PIs. We will prioritize applicants who come from countries not historically well-represented at SMR meetings.

As an added bonus, the SMR Executive Committee has agreed to have the 3 top oral presentations from the Trainee meeting give talks at the main SMR meeting over the following days. These will be voted upon by the trainees themselves. This is a great opportunity to further showcase all the amazing melanoma research being done by the students and postdocs.

How to register:

Registration is easy! When you register for the main meeting, you will be asked if you want to participate in the Trainee Meeting. To attend the Trainee meeting, you must also attend the main meeting. We will limit registration to 50 people for this meeting to maximize the interactions between everyone. We will charge a small $50 fee for this. 

Click here to register: https://smrcongress.org/reg-2025

Organizing Committee:

PIs:

Patricia Possik (Brazilian National Cancer Institute, Brazil): ppossik@inca.gov.br

Richard White (University of Oxford, United Kingdom): richard.white@ludwig.ox.ac.uk

Trainees:

Geethu Annamalai (Thomas Jefferson University, United States): geethanjali.annamalai@students.jefferson.edu

Maggie Chassé (Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States): maggie.chasse@childrens.harvard.edu

Jérémy Raymond (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford, UK): jeremy.raymond@ludwig.ox.ac.uk

Carolina Ruivo (VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium): carolina.ruivo@kuleuven.be

Babita Sharma (University of Edinburgh, UK): bsharma@ed.ac.uk

Karly Stanley (Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, United States): karly.stanley@hci.utah.edu

Venue:

October 25th, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4 PM

RAI Amsterdam Convention Center

Europaplein 24

1078 GZ

Amsterdam, The Netherlands