News and events

13–15 October 2025
47th Conference of the International Society of Oncology and Biomarkers (ISOBM), Murnau, Germany

6–10 September 2025
37th European Congress of Pathology (ECP 2025), Vienna, Austria
Invited speaker representing the IARC WHO Classification of Tumours programme

7–11 September 2024
36th European Congress of Pathology (ECP 2024), Florence, Italy
Poster: Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin: an exploratory comparative study of gap maps of research evidence cited in the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition, and of available relevant published evidence.
Poster: Sebaceous carcinoma of the skin: gap maps of research evidence cited in the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition and of available relevant published evidence: an exploratory comparative study.
Poster: Exploratory evidence maps for the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition: tumours of the lung.
Poster: Exploratory evidence maps for the WHO Classification of Tumours 5th edition for tumours of the thymus.

4 May 2024
The Jean Redmond Oliver President’s Symposium 2024, New York Pathological Society (NYPS), New York, USA
Invited presentation: “Regulatory Pathways and Science Related to Digital and Computational Pathology”.

8 April 2024 (online)
Singapore and Nottingham Breast Pathology Online Masterclass
Invited presentation: “Fibroepithelial Lesions”.

25 March 2024
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 113th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA
Invited presentation: “Collecting and Annotating Digital Pathology Images to Assess Computational Pathology”.

23–28 March 2024
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 113th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA
Poster: Multi-Gene Sequencing Reveals Actionable Mutations in Primary and Recurrent Phyllodes Tumours of the Breast.
Poster: Artificial Intelligence Modelling in Grading Breast Phyllodes Tumours.

1–3 March 2024
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia: Pathology Update 2024, Adelaide, Australia.
Poster: Tumours of the nipple - Evidence gaps mapped from the fifth edition of the WHO classification of tumours of the breast: preliminary results.

27 January 2024
Wong Hock Boon Society Research Day 2024, Singapore
Poster: Mapping the cited evidence of ductal carcinoma-in-situ from the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Breast (5th Edition).

10–14 September 2023
35th European Congress of Pathology, Dublin, Ireland
Poster: Mapping the Evidence for the WHO Classification of Tumours: a living evidence gap map by tumour type (WCT EVI MAP).

23–24 May 2023
The New Wave of AI in Healthcare, New York Academy of Sciences and Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Invited presentation: “The Many Efforts to Create a Dataset to Validate AI/ML Models in Digital Pathology”.

18 May 2023
IARC International Meeting on Tumour Classification, Lyon, France
Invited presentation: “Epithelial tumours”.

13–15 October 2022
34th International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP 2022), Sydney, Australia
Invited presentation: “Refining the classification of breast phyllodes tumours”.

2022
United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Oncology Center of Excellence
Presentation: “Developing a dataset to validate computational models that analyze digital pathology images to assess TILs in breast cancer”.

3-7 September 2022
The IC3R secretariat with the IARC WHO Classification of Tumours Programme (WCT) was present at the European Congress for Pathology in Basel, Switzerland to promote IC3R and its projects led by WCT.

18 January 2022 (online)
Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) - webinar series
Invited presentation: "The International Collaboration for Cancer Classification and Research (IC3R): providing some insights".
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25-27 October 2021 (online)
The What Works Global Summit (WWGS) hosted by the Campbell Collaboration
Poster: Machine learning computational tools to assist the performance of systematic reviews: a mapping review under the conference theme: AI, Big Data, Machine Learning and Development.

29-31 August 2021 (online)
33rd Congress of the European Society of Pathology
Mapping the Evidence for the WHO Classification of Tumours: A Living Evidence Gap Map by Tumour Type (WCT-EVI-MAP).

24 February 2021 (online)
University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Internal webinar: Guest Speakers Dr Ian Cree and Dr Iciar Indave/Invitation WHO 2020
Principles of Tumour Classification and Diagnosis and Evidence-Based Pathology and Systematic Reviews in the Field.

30 January 2021 (online)
University of Campinas, UNICAMP Brazil
Promoting Evidence-based Pathology: WHO Classification of Tumours and the International Collaboration for Cancer Classification and Research (IC3R), a unique forum for evidence generation and standard setting.

8 December 2020
Invited presentation: “The International Collaboration for Cancer Classification and Research” for the Symposium VSY-12 | Joint Symposium ESP and IARC: Quality in pathology research, at the virtual 32nd Congress of the European Society of Pathology and XXXIII International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology.

26 October-6 November, 2020 (online)
What Works Global Summit (WWGS) hosted by the Campbell Collaboration and the Danish Center for Social Science Research (VIVE).
Poster: BBEST: a web-based interface for the selection of authors in the evidence synthesis process (Best Poster Award).

27 October 2020 (online)
Center for Integrated Diagnostics Meeting (“CID-Weekly”), Boston, USA
The International Collaboration for Cancer Classification and Research (IC3R), a unique forum for evidence generation, standard setting, and best practices in tumour classification and cancer research.

23-24 October 2020
Invited presentation: “Improving the WHO Classification of Tumours using an evidence-based approach - a new training programme“ at the 10-year celebration and alumni meeting of the Master Online Advanced Oncology Programme, Ulm University, Germany.