Welcome to Ghent Pathology 2025!

24-26.06.2025

Ghent Pathology 2025 will take place at the ICC Ghent from 24-26 June 2025.

This is the 15th Joint Meeting of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology (BDIAP) and the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, joint with the Belgian Society of Pathology.

The multidisciplinary meeting brings together histopathologists, molecular pathologists, scientists, clinicians, laboratory technicians, trainees, PhD students and undergraduates to hear about the latest advances in our rapidly changing field.

The scientific programme features lecturers from Europe, US and Japan discussing the latest advances including the applications of molecular and digital pathology.
#GhentPathology2025

Committee members

Belgian Society of Pathology

Professor Koen Van de Vijver
President

Professor Vasiliki Siozopoulou
Belgian Week of Pathology President

BDIAP

Doctor Jan von der Thüsen
President

Doctor Lisa Browning
Meetings Secretary

Doctor Matthew Clarke
Deputy Meetings Secretary

Pathological Society

Professor Sarah Coupland
President

Professor Mark Arends
General Secretary

Professor Mohammad Ilyas
Meetings Secretary

Doctor Susan Richman
Deputy Meetings Secretary

Preliminary programme

Explore our programme, organized with a tab for each day and each floor where the conferences will take place. Make sure to check the different days and floors to stay updated on all sessions and events.

EXHIBITION AREA Room
JAN VAN EYCK
Room
HUBERT VAN EYCK
08:15-08:20 WELCOME ADDRESS
08:30-10:00 GI 1 GYNAE 1
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
10:30-11:30 GI 1 GYNAE 1
11:40-12:30 BDIAP
KRISTIN HENRY LECTURE
Lunch
12:30-14:00
Lunch, Poster Round 1 and Trade Exhibition
14:00-15:00 DERMATOPATHOLOGY 1 GYNAE 2
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
16:00-17:30 DERMATOPATHOLOGY 1 GYNAE 2
17:40-18:30 PUBLIC LECTURE
18:30-20:30 RECEPTION* IN TRADE EXHIBITION AREA
EXHIBITION AREA Room
BAEKLAND 1
Room
BAEKLAND 2
Room
BAEKLAND 3
08:15-08:20 WELCOME ADDRESS
08:30-10:00 SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM 1:
Cancer - at the interface between genetics and immunology
THORACIC 1 UNDERGRADUATE 1
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
10:30-11:30 ORAL FREE PAPERS THORACIC 1 UNDERGRADUATE 1
11:40-12:30
Lunch
12:30-14:00
Lunch, Poster Round 1 and Trade Exhibition
INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
14:00-15:00 ORAL FREE PAPERS 2 THORACIC 2 UNDERGRADUATE 2
Coffee Break
15:00-16:00
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
16:00-17:30 SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM 2:
Advanced cellular disease models
THORACIC 2 UNDERGRADUATE 2
17:40-18:30
18:30-20:30 RECEPTION* IN TRADE EXHIBITION AREA

*The welcome reception is open to all registered conference attendees.

EXHIBITION AREA Room
JAN VAN EYCK
Room
HUBERT VAN EYCK
08:30-10:00 GI 2 DERMATOPATHOLOGY 2
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
10:30-11:30 GI 2 DERMATOPATHOLOGY 2
11:40-12:30 PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY CL OAKLEY LECTURE
Lunch
12:30-14:00
Lunch, Poster Round 2 and Trade Exhibition
14:00-15:30 PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
16:30-17:30 PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
17:40-18:30 PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY DONIACH LECTURE
CONFERENCE DINNER*
EXHIBITION AREA Room
BAEKLAND 1
Room
BAEKLAND 2
Room
BAEKLAND 3
08:30-10:00 SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM 3:
Liquid biopsies and cancer management
TRAINEES 1 ACEM
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
10:30-11:30 ORAL FREE PAPERS 3 TRAINEES 1 ACEM
11:40-12:30
Lunch
12:30-14:00
Lunch, Poster Round 2 and Trade Exhibition
INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
14:00-15:30 ACEM
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
16:30-17:30 ACEM
17:40-18:30
CONFERENCE DINNER*

*not included in your congress registration.
A paid option is available via the registration platform.

EXHIBITION AREA Room
JAN VAN EYCK
Room
HUBERT VAN EYCK
08:30-10:00 GU 1 BREAST 1
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
10:30-11:30 GU 1 BREAST 1
11:40-12:30 INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: JAPANESE SOC OF PATHOLOGY
Lunch
12:30-14:00
Lunch, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
14:00-15:00 GU 2 BREAST 2
Coffee Break
15:00-15:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
15:00-17:00 GU 2 BREAST 2
EXHIBITION AREA Room
BAEKLAND 1
Room
BAEKLAND 2
Room
BAEKLAND 3
Room
GUISLAIN 1
08:30-10:00 SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM 4:
From tissue microenvironment to metastasis
CYTOPATHOLOGY 1 ACEM BLPG
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
10:30-11:30 ORAL FREE PAPERS 4 CYTOPATHOLOGY 1 ACEM BLPG
11:40-12:30
Lunch
12:30-14:00
Lunch, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY AGM
13:00-14:00
INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
14:00-15:00 ORAL FREE PAPERS 5 CYTOPATHOLOGY 2 ACEM
Coffee Break
15:00-15:30
Refreshments, Poster Viewing and Trade Exhibition
16:30-17:30 SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM 5:
Insights from spatial biological interrogation of disease
CYTOPATHOLOGY 2 ACEM

Sessions jointly organised with

British Association of Gynaecological Pathologists (BAGP)

British Association of Urological Pathology (BAUP)

British Lymphoma Pathology Group (BLPG)

Association of Clinical Electron Microscopists (ACEM)

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