7th May 2026
10.45 Welcome and Congress introduction - Chiara Cremolini
11.00 Opening lecture - From the past to the future: GONO-GI vision - Chiara Cremolini
11.30 State of the art and open questions about…
Chair: Giuseppe Aprile
11.30 the perioperative therapy of localized gastric cancer - Lorenzo Fornaro
11.50 the neoadjuvant therapy of rectal cancer - Alessandro Pastorino
12.10 the perioperative treatment of non-metastatic pancreatic cancer - Letizia Procaccio
12.30 Q&A
12.50 Lunch
13.50 Controversy session:
Chair: Sara Lonardi
13.50 ATOMIC team - Lisa Salvatore
14.10 NICHE-2 team - Daniele Rossini
14.30 Sum-up - Sara Lonardi
14.40 Super hot clinical questions: what we are doing for …
Chair: Chiara Cremolini
14.40 BRAF mutated mCRC - Marco Maria Germani
14.55 Immunotherapy in pMMR CRC - Carlotta Antoniotti
15.10 HER2+ gastric cancer - Alessandra Raimondi
15.25 Biliary tract tumors - Monica Niger
15.45 … and what we can do better? Open questions and potential answers
Workshop about the 4 proposed areas: Alberto Puccini (gastric), Massimiliano Salati (BRAF mut), Margherita Rimini (biliary tract), Vincenzo Formica (pMMR CRC)
(Defining the clinical questions and designing potential trials to answer them)
17.45 Output of the workshop
18.25 Keynote lecture – Detection of the MRD via ctDNA: snow in the sun or we just need some more time? -Julien Taieb
8th May 2026
9.00 Several options, practical criteria of choice:
Chair: Stefano Tamberi, Gianluca Masi
9.00 The first line treatment of advanced HCC - Andrea Casadei Gardini
9.20 The later lines of therapy of Mcrc- Roberto Moretto
9.40 Biomarker-driven therapy of advanced gastric cancer - Silvio Ken Garattini
10.00 Q&A
10.20 Areas of interest and reflection for future trials:
Chair: Filippo Pietrantonio
10.20 PROs - Emiliano Tamburini
10.40 AI tools - Federico Nichetti
11.00 Real world data - Francesca Bergamo
11.20 Q&A
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Expert round table
Chair: Chiara Cremolini, Sara Lonardi, Filippo Pietrantonio
Discussants: Lorenza Rimassa, Jenny Seligmann, Maria Alsina, Dominik Modest
- The top and the flop of cancer research in solid tumors in 2025
- Our bet for 2026
13.00 Open challenges in GI tumors
Chair: Alessandro Passardi, Lorenzo Antonuzzo
13.00 Strong points and pitfalls of NGS in the different GI malignancies - Matteo Fassan
13.15 Liver transplantation - Carlo Sposito
13.30 Intriguing targets and strategies under investigation - Filippo Pietrantonio
13.45 Conclusions and Take Home Messagees – Chiara Cremolini