Annual Workshop on Breast Cancer Research
Organized by National Network for Breast Cancer Research
The Arctic University of Norway and Raddison Blu, April 22-24, 2026
Wednesday April 22th – The Arctic University of Norway, Cerebrum, MH2,
12.00 – 13.30 Network board meeting
13.00 – 14.00 Registration and Coffee
Welcome and invited speaker:
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome and an overview over the national network for breast cancer research
Kristine Sahlberg, Vestre Viken HT
14.15 – 15.00 Keynote lecture
Invited speaker: Ruud Pijnappel,
Title: B3 lesions – How to deal with them?
Chair: Solveig Hofvind, Cancer Registry, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
15.00 – 15.15 15 minutes Coffee Break
Session I: Pink ribbon project talks
Chair:
15.15 – 15.40 Pink ribbon project talk – «Alcohol and breast cancer, causal effects and risk communication”,
Guri Skeie, The Arctic University of Norway
15.40 – 16.05 Pink ribbon project talk – Towards precision approaches in breats cancer: decoding germline and somatic interactions
Ina Skaara Brorson, Oslo University Hospital
Session II: Network updates
Main aim: Network members give an update on their work and activities.
Chair:
16.10 – 16.35 Artificial intelligence in BreastScreen Norway
Solveig Hofvind, Cancer Registry, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
16.35 – 17.00 Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) – for all? – or personalized? Results from the RAB-project
Olav Engebråten, Oslo University Hospital
19.00 Social and dinner at Epick
Thursday April 23th – Raddison blue Tromsø
07.00 – 09.00 Breakfast
Session III: Invited speaker and pink ribbon project talk
09.00 – 09.45 Keynote lecture:
Invited speaker: Alana Welm
Title:
Chair: Gunhild
09.45 – 10.10 Pink ribbon project talk – Overcoming endocrine resistance in breast cancer: A single-cell epigenetic approach to biomarkers and therapeutic reversal
Thomas Fleischer, Oslo University Hospital
10.10 – 10.25 15 minutes Coffee Break
10.25 – 10.45 User involvement – Terese Lie
Information from user representative, Board member Brystkreftforeningen
Session IV: Network updates
Main aim: Network members give an update on their work and activities.
Chair:
10.45 – 11.05 Resistant breast cancer – approches explored by PDX and PDO models
Lina Prasmickaite, Oslo University Hospital
11.05 – 11.25 Impact of carbohydrate loading on the spatial tumor glycome in breast cancer patients
Marie Austal, Stavanger University Hospital
11.25 – 11.40 15 minutes Coffee Break
11.40 – 12.00 Associations between long-term lifestyle patterns and breast cancer risk
Marion Denos, NTNU
12.00 – 12.30 To be announced
Name, Hospital
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Session V: Workshops
13.30 – 15.00 Workshops
Breast cancer clinical aspects for dummies
B3 lesions and how to treat them
Artificial Intelligence in research and in the clinic
Session VI: Poster session
Main aim: To highlight and convey recent results from the young researchers within the network.
18.30 – 19.30 Poster session and pre-drinks – A social setting for young researchers to present ongoing work.
19.30 Dinner
Friday April 24th
Session VII: Update on clinical trials and studies
Main aim: To give a short update on ongoing clinical trials and studies in the network.
Chair:
| 08.30 – 09.45 | Short summaries on ongoing studies in the consortium from 2026 |
| Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA in personalized treatment of high-risk breast cancer: – update on the PETREMAC trial
Saga Ekedal
When Science Gets Personal: Real-Time Monitoring of Cancer-Related Fatigue – Insights from the REBECCA Project,
FAPI PET/MRI – Tone F. Bathen
OPTIMA – Hege Oma Ohnstad
EMIT1 – Hege Oma Ohnstad
RaBreast – Olav Engebråten
NAPEER+ – Olav Engebråten
ARIADNE – Bjørn Naume TAORMINA – Vidar Flote er norsk PI og presenterte denne i 2025. Vet ikke om Vidar skal delta i år, evt kan jeg oppdatere.
OPTImaL – Bjørn Naume (dette er en studie som ikke er startet opp ennå p.t., men sannsynligvis er oppstartet i løpet av april i år) |
09.45 – 10.00 15 minutes Coffee Break
Session VIII: Network updates and Pink ribbon project talk
Main aim: Network members give an update on their work and activities.
Chair:
10.00 – 10.25 Pink ribbon project talk – Uncovering how breast cancer cells survive the presence of endogenous double stranded RNA
Håvard Takle Lindholm, University of Oslo
10.25 – 10.45 Spatial transcriptomics of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
Helga Bergholtz, Oslo University Hospital
10.45 – 11.00 15 minutes Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.20 Clonal selection supported by single-cell DNA sequencing reveals hormonal adaptation and resistance in locally-advanced breast cancer during neoadjuvant aromatase inhibition
Denise O’Mahony, Oslo University Hospital
11.20 – 11.40 Rethinking EMT in Breast Cancer: A Single-Cell Perspective
Saikat Das Sajib, UIT: The Arctic University of Norway
11.40 – 11.55 Closing remarks
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 Departure
