25 June 2026, Thursday
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25 June 2026, Thursday
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27 June 2026, Saturday
- TIME TABLE
- BOSPHORUS HALL
- TOPKAPI HALL
- GALATA HALL
- TAKSİM HALL
- KADIKÖY HALL
- STONE Amphitheatre
- A1 ROOM
- A2 ROOM
- SULTANS ROOM
- CASE
| 25 June 2026, Thursday | |||||||||||
| BOSPHORUS HALL | TOPKAPI HALL | GALATA HALL | TAKSİM HALL | KADIKÖY HALL | STONE Amphitheatre | A1 ROOM | A2 ROOM | SULTANS ROOM | CASE | ||
| 07:00-08:00 | EPC – Council Meeting | 07:00-08:00 | |||||||||
| 08:00-08:30 | Börek with the Professors | 08:00-08:30 | |||||||||
| 08:30-08:55 | Opening Ceremony | Hands-On Workshop | 08:30-08:55 | ||||||||
| 08:55-10:15 | Hot Topics in Pancreatology & IAP Lifetime Achievement Award | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM | 08:55-10:15 | ||||||||
| 10:15-10:45 | COFFEE BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION | 10:15-10:45 | |||||||||
| 10:45-12:00 | Pancreatic Cancer – Update 2026 | Best Abstracts – Acute Pancreatitis |
PAN-CARE 2026 – Abstract Presentation | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM | Hands-On Workshop | 10:45-12:00 | |||||
| 12:00-13:00 | Nordmark – Satellite Symposia | 12:00-13:00 | |||||||||
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK & POSTER ROUNDS & SPONSORS EXHIBITION | SBG Meeting | LUNCH BREAK & POSTER ROUNDS & SPONSORS EXHIBITION | 13:00-14:00 | |||||||
| 14:00-15:00 | Hot Topics in PanNET Treatment | Best Abstracts – Chronic Pancreatitis |
EPC/IAP Acute Pancreatitis Study Group Meeting | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM | Hands-On Workshop | 14:00-15:00 | |||||
| 15:00-15:45 | Best Abstracts – Pancreatic Cancer |
15:00-15:45 | |||||||||
| 15:45-16:15 | COFFEE BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION | EPC & KPBA | COFFEE BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION | 15:45-16:15 | |||||||
| 16:15-17:00 | Hot Topics in Cystic Tumors | Pancreas 2000 & YOUPPIE | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM | EPC Public Affairs Committe | Hands-On Workshop | 16:15-17:00 | |||||
| 17:00-18:00 | 17:00-18:00 | ||||||||||
| 18:00-18:30 | 18:00-18:30 | ||||||||||
| 19:00-20:00 | YOUPPIE WELCOME RECEPTION, Kadıköy 19:00-20:00 |
19:00-20:00 | |||||||||
| 19:30-22:30 | FACULTY DINNER, Villa Bosphorus Restaurant 19:30-22:30 |
19:30-22:30 | |||||||||
| BOSPHORUS HALL | ||
| 08.30-08.55 | Opening Ceremony | |
| 08.30-08.45 | Welcome by the Presidents | Güralp O. Ceyhan (Istanbul, Türkiye), Vinciane Rebours (Paris, France) |
| 08.45-08.55 | Introduction to Acıbadem University & ASG | Ahmet Şahin (Rector of the ACU) (Istanbul, Türkiye) |
| 08.55-09.15 | IAP – Lifetime Achievement Awardee Lecture |
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| Targeting CD19+ B-Cells in Type 1 AIP: Reducing Flares and Supporting Steroid-Free Remission | Matthias Löhr (Stockholm, Sweden) | |
| 09.15-10.15 | Hot Topics in Pancreatology | Chairs: Patrick Michl (Heidelberg, Germany), Güralp O. Ceyhan (Istanbul, Türkiye), Kyoichi Takaori (Kyoto, Japan) |
| 09.15-09.30 | RNA Neoantigen Vaccines Prime Survival in PDAC – No Fairytale Anymore | NN |
| 09.30-09.45 | Gut-Pancreas Axis – from Microbes to Immune Cells | Albrecht Neeße (Göttingen, Germany) |
| 09.45-10.00 | From EUS Images to Risk Scores: Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Endoscopic Management of Pancreatic Lesions | Nicoleta Podină (Bucharest, Romania) |
| 10.00-10.15 | When will AI Take Over and Make the Surgeon Unnecessary? – Future Pancreatic Robotic Surgery | Andrew Gumbs (Tiflis, Georgia) |
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10.45-12.00 | Pancreatic Cancer – Update 2026 | Chairs: Jörg Kleeff (Halle, Germany), Daniel Öhlund (Umea, Sweden), Ashok Saluja (Miami, USA) |
| 10.45-10.59 | Targeting the GDF15–GFRAL Axis in Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia: From Mechanisms to Emerging Therapeutics | Stefan D. Anker (Berlin, Germany) |
| 10.59-11.13 | Genomic Subtyping and Therapy Stratification for Precision Medicine in PDA | Anirban Maitra (New York, USA) |
| 11.13-11.27 | New Class of RAS Inhibitors will Change the Therapeutic Landscape in Pancreatic Cancer | Hana Algül (Munich, Germany) |
| 11.27-11.41 | The Novel Multidisciplinary Pancreatic Cancer Guidelines – What will Change? | Elena Rangelova (Gothenburg, Sweden) |
| 11.41-12.00 | Best Pancreatic Cancer Abstracts | |
| 12.00-13.00 | NORDMARK – Symposia | |
| to be announced later. | ||
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.45 | Hot Topics PanNET – Theranostics, Surgery & Local Ablation in PanNET: How Should We Change Practice Tomorrow? | Chairs:Anna Caterina Milanetto (Padova, Italy), Kazushige Uchida (Kochi, Japan) |
| 14.00-14.15 | Liquid Biopsies in PanNET: NETest, cfDNA and ctDNA to Guide Surveillance and Early Intervention | Rossella E. Rossi (Milan, Italy) |
| 14.15-14.30 | Designing the Next Generation of Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Trials in PanNET: Learning from Advanced Disease | James C. Yao (Houston, USA) |
| 14.30-14.45 | G3 PanNET versus NEC: When Does Surgery Still Make Sense? | Halfdan Sorbye (Bergen, Norway) |
| 14.45-15.00 | Surgery for Multimetastatic PanNET with Liver Metastases: How Far is Too Far? | Stefano Partelli (Milan, Italy) |
| 15.00-15.15 | Theranostics in PanNET: Optimising PRRT and Emerging Radioligand Strategies | Marianne Pavel (Erlangen, Germany) |
| 15.15-15.30 | EUS Ablation vs Surgery for Insulinomas and Small NF-PanNETs: Complications, Long-Term Control and Quality of Life | Silvia F. Crinò (Verona, Italy) |
| 15.30-15.45 | Best PanNET Abstracts | |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.15-18-30 | Cystic Tumors of the Pancreas 2025: Precision Stratification, Molecular Profiling & Next-Generation Management | Chairs: Roberto Salvia (Verona, Italy), Djuna Cahen (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Masafumi Nakamura (Fukuoka, Japan) |
| 16.15-16.35 | What Can We Expect from the Novel Multidisciplinary Guidelines? | Marco del Chiaro (Denver, USA) |
| Rethinking Guidelines | ||
| 16.35-16.50 | BD-IPMN: Stop or Continue Surveillance? | Masayuki Kitano (Wakayama, Japan) |
| 16.50-17.05 | Main-duct IPMN: still “Resect All”? | Giovanni Marchegiani (Padova, Italy) |
| 17.05-17.20 | MCN and SPN: Selective Surgery vs Classical Dogma | Christopher Wolfgang (New York, USA) |
| Molecular Subtypes, Risk Stratification & AI Future | ||
| 17.20-17.35 | Molecular Roadmaps of Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms: From KRAS to Multi-Omics | Claudio Luchini (Verona, Italy) |
| 17.35-17.50 | Beyond Cyst Size: Liquid and EUS Biopsies to Predict Malignant IPMN | Anne Marie Lennon (Pittsburgh, USA) |
| 17.50-18.05 | AI for Pancreatic Cysts: Beating the Guidelines at Predicting Malignancy | Tamas Gonda (New York, USA) |
| 18.05-18.30 | Best Cystic Tumors Abstracts | |
| TOPKAPI HALL | ||
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Best Abstracts – Acute Pancreatitis | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Best Abstracts – Chronic Pancreatitis | |
| 15.00 – 15.45 | Best Abstracts – Pancreatic Cancer | |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.15-18.30 | YOUPPIE SESSION The Game of Pancreas: Mastering Pancreatology from Basics to Youppie Throne |
Chairs: Lucia Guilabert (Elche, Spain), Sara Nikolić (Maribor, Slovenia) |
| 16.15-16.20 | Case Presentation | Lucia Guilabert (Elche, Spain), Sara Nikolić (Maribor, Slovenia) |
| 16.20-16.30 | Kicking Off Strong: The Initial Management of Acute Pancreatitis | Catalina Vladut (Bucharest, Romania) |
| 16.30-16.40 | Feed Me Right: Nutrition in Acute Pancreatitis | James Halle Smith (Birmingham, UK) |
| 16.40-17.00 | Trouble Ahead: Managing Complications Like a Pro | Giacomo Rizzo (Sicily, Italy), Thomas Hank (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| 17.00-17.10 | Life After the Storm: Post–Acute Pancreatitis Consequences | Veronika Lillik (Budapest, Hungary) |
| 17.10-17.20 | Discussion and Questions | |
| Future in Focus: Empowering Young Pancreatologists | ||
| 17.20-17.27 | Pancreas 2000 Project 1 | NN |
| 17.27-17.34 | Pancreas 2000 Project 2 | NN |
| 17.34-17.46 | From the Medical Crib: Shapping the Pancreatologists of Tomorrow – a JPC Success Story | NN |
| EPC Fellowships | ||
| 18.01-18.06 | EPC Fellowship | Kasper Overbeek (Rotterdam, Netherlands) |
| 17.46-17.51 | EPC Fellowship | Laura González de los Ríos (Rhode Island, USA) |
| YOUPPIE THRONE | ||
| 17.51-18.00 | Male Youppie Awardee | NN |
| 18.00-18.10 | Female Youppie Awardee | NN |
| GALATA HALL | ||
| 10.45-13.00 | PAN-CARE 2026 – Oral Presentations | |
| 11.00-13.00 | PAN-CARE 2026 – Abstract Presentation | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.45 | Acute Pancreatitis Study Group – EPC/IAP 2026 Session | Chair: Enrique de-Madaria (Alicante, Spain) |
| 14.00-14.15 | Rabi-767 Study | Timothy Gardner (New Hampshire, USA) |
| 14.15-14.30 | Insights into Mechanisms of Systemic Effects of Acute Pancreatitis from Analysis of Serum Proteins | Stephen Pandol (Los Angeles, USA) |
| 14.30-14.45 | A Global Phase 3 Trial of Auxora in Acute Pancreatitis | Robert Sutton (Liverpool, UK) |
| 14.45-15.00 | CAPPOS Project | Louise Kuhlmann (Aalborg, Denmark) |
| 15.00-15.15 | SARCOPANC Study | Sanjay Pandanaboyana (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) |
| 15.15-15.30 | Studies from the Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group (PLANCTON, PICUS-2) | Lars VanderBroeck (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| 15.30-15.45 | Studies from the Hungarian Pancreatic Study Group (PANCA, PPDM, ARPAD, LIFESPAN, EFFORT, PROSECCO) | Bálint Eröss (Budapest, Hungary) |
| TAKSİM HALL | |
| 09.30-10.30 | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM |
| 10.30-10.45 | COFFEE BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION |
| 10.45-13.00 | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION |
| 14:00-15.45 | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM |
| 15:45-16:15 | COFFEE BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION |
| 16.15-18.00 | STELLACU – CONSORTIUM |
| STONE Amphitheatre | |
| 08.00-08.30 | Börek with the Professors |
| A1 ROOM | ||
| 13.00-14.00 | SBG Meeting | |
| 15.45-16.15 | EPC & KPBA | |
| A2 ROOM | ||
| 16.15-17.00 |
EPC Public Affairs Committe |
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| SULTANS ROOM | |
| 07.00-08.30 | EPC – Council Meeting |
| CASE | |
| 08.30-10.30 | Hands-On Workshop |
| 10.30-10.45 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45-13.00 | Hands-On Workshop |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15.45 | Hands-On Workshop |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16.15-18.30 | Hands-On Workshop |