Biliary Tract Cancers: Practical Approaches in Challenging Environments

Todua Clinic - Tbilisi, Georgia

 

March 21-22, 2026

 

The COST Training School 2026 "Biliary Tract Cancers: Practical Approaches in Challenging Environments" is aimed at providing an overview of the diagnosis and management of biliary tract malignancies during the first day. The second day will revolve around a dedicated workshop to state the “priorities for centralization of care in biliary tract malignancies.”

 

 

Course Organizers: 

Dr. Elene Mariamidze (Todua Clinic, Georgia) 

Dr. Angela Lamarca (Fundación Jimenez Díaz University Hospital, Spain)

Dr. Anna Saborowski (Hannover Medical School, Germany)

 

Advanced Preclinical Models for Biliary Tract Cancers

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence - Florence, Italy

 

March 26-27, 2026

 

The COST Training School 2026, “Advanced Preclinical Models for Biliary Tract Cancers”, aims to provide early-career researchers and clinicians with an in-depth understanding of cutting-edge in vitro and in vivo model systems for biliary tract cancer research. Hosted by the University of Florence, this two-day program will combine keynote lectures, hands-on sessions, and interactive discussions led by leading experts in organoids, tumor-on-chip systems, PDX/PDOX, scaffold-based models, and genetically engineered mouse models. Participants will gain both fundamental and translational insights into how these systems can enhance preclinical research and inform clinical trial design. The training school will foster collaboration and mentorship while offering a platform for knowledge exchange and skill development in an emerging field of high biomedical relevance.

 

Course Organizers

Prof. Chiara Raggi (University of Florence, Italy)

Prof. Jens Marquardt (University Hospital Schleswig, Lübeck, Germany)

 

 

Histopathological and molecular methods in biliary tract cancer modelling and their clinical context

Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute of Pathology - Heidelberg, Germany

 

March 13-14, 2025

 

This Training School, organized by Dr. Stephanie Roessler of the Heidelberg University Hospital Institute of Pathology and Dr. Tim Kendall of the University of Edinburgh Institute for Regeneration and Repair, was hosted at the Heidelberg University Hospital Institute of Pathology and covered the theme of Histopathological and molecular methods in BTC modelling and their clinical context.