Three Special Lectures at 2025 IKCS: Europe

The 2025 International Kidney Cancer Symposium: Europe, taking place in Amsterdam on May 1-3, will feature three special lectures recognizing outstanding leaders in kidney cancer.

Dr. Michael Staehler

Dr. Michael Staehler will receive the KCA’s John Fitzpatrick Award recognizing excellence in urology care. Dr. Staehler is the founder and head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Renal Tumours at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in Germany. It is the first multi-disciplinary cancer center for renal neoplasms in Germany certified by the German Cancer Society (DKG). Professor Staehler is also Head of the Urological Oncology Service for Advanced Genitourinary Cancer and Kidney Surgery. He is vice chairman of the Department of Urology of the University of Munich and heads the interdisciplinary tumor board on genitourinary cancer at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Munich. Dr. Staehler has supported with the Kidney Cancer Association over many years, including as a past chair of the IKCS: Europe scientific planning committee.

Dr. Tom Mitchell

Dr. Tom Mitchell will receive the Christopher G. Wood Rising Star Award, which recognizes talented young kidney cancer experts in honor of the KCA’s late Board Chair and friend, Dr. Christopher G. Wood. Dr. Mitchell is a Consultant Urologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He is also the Research Group Leader of the Early Cancer Institute at the University of Cambridge, A Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellow, and in October 2024 was named the Krishnan-Ang Distinguished Group Leader of Cambridge’s Urological Malignancies Virtual Institute (UMVI).

Dr. Lisa Derosa

Dr. Lisa Derosa will give the 2025 IKCS: Europe Keynote Lecture discussing the Microbiome in Kidney Cancer. Dr. Derosa is a medical oncologist and head of The Clinicobiome Programme at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Paris, France.