ENETS Grant and Award Winners

Synergy grant

Awardees: Mauro CIVES (Italy), Jérôme CROS (France), Ilaria MARINONI (Switzerland)

for their project entitled "Deciphering the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Lineage Plasticity in Digestive MiNENs".

Mauro Cives received the certificate on behalf of the PIs from ENETS Chair Rocio Garcia-Carbonero.

Theranostics/AI grant

Awardee: Anguraj SADANANDAM (United Kingdom)

for his project entitled "A Multi-center Precision Theranostics study for NETs by Harnessing AI to Predict PRRT Response Through Integrated Multiomics and Imaging Biomarkers".

Best oral abstract presentations

We are pleased to announce the following presenters have been awarded the Best Oral and Mini Oral presentations at the 23rd Annual ENETS Conference. These awards are supported by ENETS and the NET Research Foundation.

Basic science

• First Place: Heleen JUNGEN (Spain) – “Tracing tumor evolution in pulmonary neuroendocrine cancer using patient-derived tumor organoids”
• Second Place: Matthieu TIHY (France) – “Histological classification of high-grade digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms using an advanced deep learning model”
  
  

Clinical science

• First Place: Beatriz ANTON PASCUAL (Canada) – “Spatial immune landscape identifies microenvironmental predictors of immunotherapy efficacy in grade 3 digestive neuroendocrine neoplasms”
• Second Place: Maciej KOLODZIEJ (Poland) – “Dosimetry-guided radioligand therapy in neuroendocrine tumors: Interim safety analysis of the DUONEN trial”

Best mini oral presentations

Basic Science – Joint Winners

• Felix BOLDUAN (Germany) – “Transcriptomic analysis of small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors reveals reduced REST expression and enteroendocrine cells as cell of origin”
• Junya PENG (China) – “AGR2-high cells drive a FOXM1-mediated pro-malignancy program in Non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NF- PanNETs) and informatively predict patient outcomes”
  
  

Clinical Science

• David CHAN (Australia) – “Efficacy and safety of retreatment PRRT – A multi-centre Australian study”

Winners of the Håkan Ahlman Award 2026

We are proud to announce the winners of this year's ENETS Håkan Ahlman Award, recognising outstanding researchers in neuroendocrine neoplasms. This prestigious award honours the legacy of Håkan Ahlman, a founding member of ENETS and an inspiring researcher.

The recipients of the ENETS Håkan Ahlman Award 2026 are:

Céline PATTE (FRANCE)

for her outstanding manuscript entitled “Comprehensive molecular portrait reveals genetic diversity and distinct molecular subtypes of small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors”.

Louis DE MESTIER (FRANCE)

for his pioneering research article entitled “Immunotherapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors with High Mutational Burden and Mismatch Repair Alterations Following Treatment with Alkylating Chemotherapy”.

Travel Grant Winners 2026

We are delighted to announce this year’s Travel Grant recipients for the 23rd Annual ENETS Conference. These grants enable distinguished individuals to participate in the conference, promoting international collaboration and the sharing of expertise within the neuroendocrine tumour (NET) community.

Congratulations to the following winners:

• Beatriz Anton Pascual (CAN)
• Jacky Wei-Ting Chen (AUS)
• Manfredi d'Afflitto (GBR)
• Thomas Hunaut (FRA)
• Laura Mariën (BEL)
• Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)
• Vanja Podrascanin (AUT)
• Daniel Ruiz Palacios (ESP)
• Carlotta Sarzo (ITA)
• Ker Shiong Tan (GBR)
• Camilla Ullmann (SUI)
• Tijmen van Weert (NED)
• Katharina Wang (GER)