1st Annual Meeting

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The first annual meeting of the GENIAL project was held in Lisbon at the end of April 2024 at the Champalimaud foundation.

The two-days meeting provided an opportunity to gather all the partners, have an overview of the project’s initial scientific advances and to discuss the work programme for the coming period.

The meeting was followed by a high-level scientific presenting the following topics:

Session 1: Innovations in risk stratification and early detection for HCC

  • Environmental factors driving HCC risk. Alexandre Louvet (Lille, France)
  • Etiology-specific HCC screening: are we there yet? Ana Lleo (Milan, Italy)
  • The future of serum and radiological techniques in early HCC detection Pierre Nahon (Paris, France)
  • Contribution of genomics to HCC risk stratification Luca Valenti (Milan, Italy)

Session 2: Decoding hepatocellular carnicoma; a genomic perspective

  • Genetic Diversity in HCC: insights and implications Jessica Zucman-Rossi (Paris, France)
  • Spatial Metabolomics: Gateway to Undersanding HCC » Tine Tricot (Leuven, Belgium)
  • Insights from genetically modified animal models for liver cancer research(Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, Portugal)
  • Challenges and Promises in Omics Integration for HCC Aurelien De Reyniès (Paris, France)