
The annual ICCI Cancer Research Symposium is a free all-day event that highlights the cancer research taking place at the University of Guelph and from other institutions. The day consists of short talks from students and invited local speakers, guest speakers from many areas of research, poster presentations, and a keynote speaker to cap off an eventful day promising to demonstrate the wide variety and novelty of cancer research taking place in veterinary and translational medicine.
Thank you for attending the 2025 ICCI Cancer Research Symposium! If you missed it, or would like a recap, highlight reels can be viewed through the links below. We would like to offer our sincere thanks to Dr. Douglas Thamm, Christina Ip-Toma, Dr. Jim Petrik and all of our other speakers, presenters and attendees for making this a fantastic and engaging year of shared knowledge and experiences.
Below, you can also find links to the highlights of previous years, including some of the poster presentations. We appreciate the feedback provided to us from last year’s event, and hope to continue to improve your experience. At this time, we would greatly appreciate feedback on the event if you attended this year. Please use this link to complete our satisfaction survey so we can continue to improve on the experience each year.
Please email Deirdre Stuart at dstuar01@uoguelph.ca if you are having any difficulties accessing the page or highlight reels from previous years.

Past ICCI Symposia:
- 2025: Program; Guest speaker profiles; Watch highlights online: Dr. Jim Petrik; Short Talk #3 (Liljana Skakavac); Featured Update (OVC Biobank); Christina Ip-Toma; Short Talk #6 (Dr. Alicia Viloria-Petit); and our Keynote address by Dr. Doug Thamm. Select posters can be found here.
- 2024: Program; Guest speaker profiles; Watch highlights online: Dr. Tony Mutsaers; Short Talk #3 (Latasha Ludwig), Short Talk #4 *please note this work has been published since presentation and can be viewed here (Miles Mee), Short Talk #6 (Aidan Russell); Charly McKenna; Dr. Dorothee Bienzle; Short Talk #7 (Shayla Verburg), Short Talk #8 (Rachael Speare), Short Talk #9 (Emma Vanderboon) and our Keynote address by Dr. Chand Khanna. Select posters can be found here.
- 2023: Program; Guest speaker profiles; Watch highlights online: Introduction; Dr. Paul Spagnuolo; Dr. Valerie Poirier; Dr. Amy Leblanc (Keynote); Dr. Robert Kerbel (Regional keynote); and Short Talks session 1, session 2 and session 3. Posters can be found here.
- 2022: Program; Watch highlights online: Introduction; Dr. Elizabeth Murchison (closed captioned); Dr. Christof Bertram (introduction here)
- 2021: Program; Watch highlights online: Dr. Lisa Forrest; Dr. Dorothee Bienzle; Dr. Sam Workenhe; and Trainee presentations session 1 and session 2.
- 2020: Cancelled due to COVID-19
- 2019: Program, Schedule, Watch highlights online: here!
- 2018: Program, Schedule, Watch talks online: Drs. Daniel L. Gustafson, Paul Boutros, Margarete Akens
- 2017: Program
- 2016: Program
- 2015: Program, Schedule, Posters, Watch Dr. Wan’s Talk here!
- 2014: Program, Schedule, Posters
- 2013: Program, Schedule
- 2012: Program
- 2011: Program
- 2010: Program
- 2009: Program
- 2008: Program