Program

The ANZCHOG ASM 2025 program will include plenary sessions, invited speaker sessions, industry involvement and concurrent paper sessions.

Please find below a preliminary copy of the 2025 ASM program as a guide of what to expect. Please note the program is subject to changes.

The ASM program will now start on Wednesday afternoon, 30 July 2025 and conclude on Friday night, 1 August 2025

Day 1 – Wed 30 July
Day 2 – Thu 31 July
Day 3 – Fri 1 Aug

Time
0800-0900	Registration open Arrival tea and coffee
0900-1500	ANZCHOG Pre-Conference Nurses Workshop	ANZCHOG Pre-Conference Allied Health Workshop: Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Optimal Patient Outcomes	ANZCHOG Paediatric Oncology Fellows Day (Offsite)
0900-1500	Made possible by Cure Brain Cancer Foundation	Made possible by MY Room	Made possible by Day One Biopharmaceuticals
1500-1600	Afternoon Tea – Registration Open, Trade Display and Poster Viewing
1600-1630	Opening Ceremony
1630-1715	Plenary 1 Can we cure all children of cancer without harm? Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson, RVI Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
1715-1800	Plenary 2 – TBC
1800-1915	Welcome Reception in Exhibition
1930-2130	Partner Dinner Symposium
1930-2130	How is the profile of patients with hepatic VOD evolving in line with the treatment landscape? Prof. Selim Corbacioglu, University of Regensburg Sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals

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Time
0730-0830	.partnership-50-2025
0800-0900	.break-50-2025
1345-1515	.subheader2025
1345-1515	[Placeholder]

Time
0730-0830	Breakfast Symposium 1
0730-0830	Sponsored by Amgen
0800-0900	Registration open Arrival tea and coffee
0900-0945	Plenary 3 TBC Prof Robert Wynn
0945-1030	Plenary 4 Network neuroscience and brain repair in children with pediatric brain tumours. Dr Donald Mabbott, SickKids Involvement made possible by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation
1030-1100	Morning Tea – Trade Display and Poster Viewing
1100-1145	Plenary 5 Approaches to relapse/refractory high-risk neuroblastoma Dr Daniel Morgenstern, SickKids Involvement made possible by Norgine
1145-1230	Plenary 6 A/ Prof Peter Grimison, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Involvement made possible by Youth Cancer Service
1230-1345	Lunch – Trade Display and Poster Viewing
	Partner Lunch Symposium
	Sponsored by Alexion
1345-1515	ANZCHOG Clinical Trials Update
1515-1545	Afternoon Tea – Trade Display and Poster Viewing
1545-1615	Meet the Expert Session 1	Meet the Expert Session 2	Meet the Expert Session 3
1545-1615	Brought to you by Recordati Rare Diseases
1630-1815	Concurrent 1 – Neuro-Oncology	Concurrent 2 – Adolescent and Young Adult	Concurrent 3 – Optimising Patient Experience
	Driving CARs into DMG Prof David Ziegler, Sydney Children’s Hospital Involvement made possible by RUNDIPG	P3BeP A/Prof Peter Grimison, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Involvement made possible by Youth Cancer Service	Can we go home now? QPPHON enables care as close to home as possible Ms Jessica Nicholson, Children’s Health Queensland
		A Review of the Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults with Gonadal Germ Cell Tumours in Queensland from 2017 to 2022 Dr Rick Walker, Queensland Children’s Hospital	Improving the child cancer experience for New Zealand families: A qualitative study Dr Anna Timmings, Te Whatu Ora – Lakes
	Presentation TBC Dr Donald Mabbott, SickKids Involvement made possible by Robert Connor Dawes Foundation	Enhancing Australian AYA Psychosocial Care: Updated Guidelines and State of the Literature A/ Prof Ursula Sansom-Daly, University of New South Wales	Top Ten Research Priorities for Cancer in Children and Young People in Australia Mrs Gayani De Silva, Queensland University of Technology
		Evaluating Distress Scores and Unmet Needs in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer Undergoing Treatment or as Survivors in a Large Australian Paediatric and Adult Health Service Miss Tegan Dunmall, Monash Health	Collaborating for Change: Advancing Global Health Research with SIOP Oceania Dr Trisha Soosay Raj, Queensland Health
	DNA Damage Response Inhibitors Enhance the Efficacy of Radiation in Preclinical Models of Medulloblastoma Dr Meegan Howlett, The Kids Institute Australia	Optimising Intravenous Nutrition in Paediatric Cancer Care: Insights from New Zealand’s Leading Tertiary Centre Dr Amy Lovell, The University of Auckland and Starship Blood and Cancer Centre	Building resilience: Workforce strategies to combat distress and burnout in Australian children’s cancer nurses Prof Natalie Bradford, Queensland University of Technology
	Radiological, Histopathological and Molecular Features of Gliomas in Li Fraumeni Syndrome Miss Noemi Fuentes Bolano, Sydney Children’s Hospital and Children’s Cancer Institute	mTKIs in Sarcoma – The Story So Far Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson, RVI Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK	What do First Nations Communities Need From Childhood Cancer Research? Dr Jessica Buck, The Kids Research Institute
	Launch of the Australian Family Handbook for Childhood Brain Tumour Ms Melanie Rolfe, Queensland University of Technology		Prioritising equitable outcomes for children and young people with cancer: Using the He Pikinga Wairoa Implementation Framework to co-design a prehabilitation intervention in Aotearoa, New Zealand Miss Alexis Ross, University of Auckland
1815-1915	ANZCHOG 2025 ASM Poster Session in Exhibition

Time
0730-0830	.partnership-50-2025
0800-0900	.break-50-2025
1345-1515	.subheader2025
1345-1515	[Placeholder]

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Time
0730-0830	Breakfast Symposium 2
0730-0830	Sponsored by Bayer
0800-0900	Registration open Arrival tea and coffee
0900-0945	Plenary 7 Curative Treatment Options for Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease in 2025 Prof Selim Corbacioglu, University of Regensburg Involvement made possible by Jazz Pharmaceuticals
0945-1030	Plenary 8 TBC Prof Lee Dupuis, SickKids
1030-1100	Morning Tea – Trade Display and Poster Viewing
1100-1230	Concurrent 4 – Precision Medicine	Concurrent 5 – Equitable World Health	Concurrent 6 – Haematology
	Mapping Proteomic Differences between High-Risk and Non-High-Risk Neuroblastoma Miss Urwah Nawaz, Children’s Medical Research Institute	Strengthening Paediatric Cancer and Palliative Care Capacity in Papua New Guinea Dr Gwenda Anga, Port Moresby General Hospital Involvement made possible by QUT Palliative Care	Inborn errors of immunity in the Haematology clinic. Dr Peter McNaughton, Queensland Children’s Hospital
	Quality of life, distress and support needs of families of children with high-risk sarcoma enrolled in a precision medicine trial Dr Brittany McGill, University New South Wales		Approach to Philadelphia-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms in Children Dr Denitza Mironova, Perth Children’s Hospital
	The STAMP Inhibitor asciminib is a Novel Therapy for ABL1-rearranged ALL Dr Laura Eadie, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute		What’s new in Sickle cell disease ? Dr Anthea Greenway, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
	Thematic analysis of the key factors that guide oncologist decisions to use precision-guided treatment in paediatric cancer Miss Xian Zou, University New South Wales	Current Incidence And Outcome Of Childhood Cancer In Fiji: A Baseline For The Global Initiative For Childhood Cancer Dr Siobhan Cross, Health NZ	Expanding the Aplastic Anaemia and Other Bone Marrow Failure Registry (AAR) to New Zealand – Exploring epidemiology, availability of diagnostic testing, and genomic profiles Dr Nathanael Lucas, Monash University and The University of Otago
	PREDICT and Validate: Decoding the Genome of Childhood Cancer Predisposition Miss Safaa Al Haj Hussein, Children’s Hospital at Westmead	Childhood Cancer Survival in Australia: A population-based analysis of prognostic indicators and survival disparities by geography and socio-economic status Prof Natalie Bradford, Queensland University of Technology	What Should We Research? Defining Priorities for Paediatric Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) Through Stakeholder Engagement Ms Roxanne Dyas, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
	Derivation of a Proteomic Signature for Prediction of Relapse in Paediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Dr Veronica Yeung, Children’s Medical Research Institute	Quantifying the social and economic burden of childhood cancer on New Zealand families and the impact of location, ethnicity and cancer type Dr Anna Timmings, Te Whatu Ora – Lakes
1230-1345	Lunch – Trade Display and Poster Viewing
	Partner Lunch Symposium
	Sponsored by Norgine
1345-1530	Concurrent 7 – Solid Tumours	Concurrent 8 – Supportive Cares and Treatments	Concurrent 9 – Leukaemia/ Lymphoma
	SMARCB1 and rhabdoid tumours: germline versus acquired pathogenic variants Miss Noemi Fuentes Bolano, Sydney Children’s Hospital and Children’s Cancer Institute		Antibiotic-Induced Ablation of Gut Microbiota in Murine Models of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Results in Variable Patterns of Leukaemic Cell Engraftment Ms Cate Cheney, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
	Variations of rotationplasty surgical techniques and implications for physiotherapy in four children at the Queensland Children’s Hospital Ms Elise Mosey, Children’s Health Queensland	Elevated plasma CXCL9 and CHI3L1 prior to haematopoietic stem cell transplant predict post transplant lung complications in children Dr Hannah Walker, The Royal Children’s Hospital	Addressing caregiver unmet information needs at end-of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: The Emerge Program Dr Cinzia De Luca, Children’s Cancer Centre
	New combinations for HR-NB through systematic drug screening and rational targeting of relapse pathways in clinical trial-like PDX studies Mr Brandon Hearn, Children’s Cancer Institute	Pharmacogenomics in Paediatric Oncology: Australian Patient and Caregiver Perspectives Ms Claire Moore, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute	Next generation sequencing (NGS) for detection and monitoring of minimal residual disease in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia Dr Nicola Mason, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
	Defining mechanisms of cisplatin resistance in osteosarcoma using a whole genome CRISPR activation screen Dr Elise Young, Monash Health and Hudson Institute	Y-Site Compatibility of Ketamine with Other Commonly Administered Drugs in Pediatric Oncology Mr Johnathan Soggee, Perth Children’s Hospital	Innovative Approach to Physiotherapy Management of Children with Respiratory Complications of Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Ms Joanne Leavitt, Queensland Children’s Hospital
	Journey mapping of paediatric patients with orthopaedic sarcoma: challenges and support needs identified Mrs Caitlin Smith, Perth Children’s Hospital	Clinical characterisation and early intervention for the physically vulnerable child with cancer: protocol for a mixed-methods pilot RCT Dr Sarah Grimshaw, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute	Acquired copy number variants are highly correlated with Ph+ALL subgroups identified by transcriptomic analysis Dr Jacqueline Rehn, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
	Identification of molecular prognostic and therapy resistance signatures in childhood and AYA osteosarcomas Dr Nataliya Zhukova, Hudson Institute of Medical Research	A Surveillance Study in Multi-Organ Cancer Predisposition Syndromes in Paediatrics (SMOC Junior): Preliminary Results Dr Noemi Fuentes Bolanos, Sydney Children’s Hospital and Children’s Cancer Institute
		Body Composition Changes in Early Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumours: Data from the CARaB C Study Dr Erin Sharwood, Children’s Health Queensland
1530-1600	Afternoon Tea – Trade Display and Poster Viewing
1600-1645	Plenary 9 Emerging therapies in inherited bleeding disorders Dr Jane Mason, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
1645-1800	ANZCHOG 2025 ASM Best Abstracts Queensland Youth Cancer Service: Prioritising Adolescent and Young Adult futures through connection and wrap around care Mrs Tracy Till, Queensland Children’s Hospital Potential for Pharmacogenomics to Improve Medication Safety and Efficacy in Australian Paediatric Oncology Patients Ms Claire Moore, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Using Methylation Array Profiling for Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukaemia Classification Dr Christine White, Victorian Clinical Genetics Services Exploring Symptom Burden and Symptom Clusters in Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors: A Multi-perspective Cross-sectional Study Dr Sarah Ellis, University New South Wales Towards a National System for Minimally Invasive Monitoring of any Childhood Cancer: Lessons Learnt and Opportunities for Impact Mr Rob Salomon, Children’s Cancer Institute
1900-0000	Gala Dinner
1900-0000	Venue: Brisbane City Hall Dress code: Cocktail Information: An elegant evening of celebration featuring a three course dinner, drinks, and the abstract awards. Set in one of the city’s most iconic venues, this special night offers the perfect opportunity to connect with colleagues and honour excellence in our field.

Key for Program

Time
0730-0830	.partnership-50-2025
0800-0900	.break-50-2025
1345-1515	.subheader2025
1345-1515	[Placeholder]

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