The AEK International Cancer Congress is organized by the “Abteilung Experimentelle Krebsforschung” (AEK) within the German Cancer Society. It is now a tradition that the International AEK Congress will be jointly subsidized by the “Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft” and the Deutsche Krebshilfe.

This provides us with an excellent opportunity for assembling a scientific program with highly renowned international and national scientists presenting and discussing latest data and future perspectives of different hot topics in cancer research.

The topics of this forthcoming conference will include latest news from the human cancer genome and epigenome projects, modelling of oncogenic pathways, tumor heterogeneity particularly related to breast cancer, oncogenic tumor cell regulation, invasion and metastasis, and the steadily increasing appreciation of the tumor microenvironment with its tumor-stroma interaction, inflammasome, and exosome action.

Malignant melanoma will be discussed as an example of novel treatment modalities. As key not speakers and particularly devoted to these topics, we are happy to announce Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkley and Bob Weinberg, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA.