MRS 16th Biennial Congress in Chengdu Makes National News!

Thomas R. Cox, Oct 2016

I recently attended the MRS 16th Biennial Meeting in China Chengdu, which was a fantastic conference and brought together some of the best cancer metastasis researchers in the world to discuss current and future work in the field.

The  congress, co-organized by Qinghua Zhou of the Chinese Tumor Metastasis Society and Yibin Kang of the Metastasis Research Society  took place from the 16th-20th of September 2016 and made national news in China, including interviews with incoming MRS president, Yibin Kang, and outgoing MRS president, Jonathan Sleeman.

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Watch the news feature here

Recognising outstanding contributions to Metastasis Research

In addition to organising a stellar line up of speakers and presenters, the MRS supports and promotes progress in metastasis research with several society awards. During this congress the following 3 researchers were recognized for their outstanding contributions to metastasis research, and given the opportunity to present their work.

  • Fidler Innovation in Metastasis Research Award – Dihua Yu
  • Kurt Hellman Award – Patricia Steeg
  • Sue Eccles Young Investigator Award – Jing Yang

Click here to view award winners from the congress

The abstracts and a full congress report will shortly be published in Clinical and Experimental Metastasis