From September 16-19, 2018, HI-STEM, together with the DKFZ and the Heidelberg University Hospital, was hosting the 10^th International Heinrich F.C. Behr-Symposium on Stem Cells and Cancer. The conference featured talks by over 25 invited international speakers, including keynotes by John Dick (Toronto), Elaine Fuchs (New York), Pier Paolo Pandolfi (Boston), Ben Ebert (Boston) and Leonard I. Zon (Boston). On Sunday, September 16, Andreas Trumpp, the chair of the organizing committee of the event, welcomed over 300 participants to the conference. Topics of the talks included latest highlights concerning the malignant transformation of stem cells in the blood and other organs, as well as new findings concerning the epigenetic regulation of healthy and diseased stem cells.

SCC 2018 Speakers

Elaine Fuchs

Frederic de Sauvage

Poster session

Andreas Trumpp

Air-conditioned world-class research

Catriona Jamieson and Margaret Goodell

Time for a break

Listening to Margaret Goodell

SCC 2018 Poster Prize Winners

John Dick

AML workshop

The 2018 SCC poster prize winners: Colinda Scheele (1st prize), Nuray Bögürcü (2nd prize), Elena Parmigiani (3rd prize)

 To find out more about the conference, please visit the conference website at www.scc2018.de.