2025 ISUP Vienna Multidisciplinary Expert Consultation Conference

On September 11, 2025, the International Society of Urological Pathology will host a “Multidisciplinary Expert Consultation Conference on the Evaluation of Treatment Effects in Prostate and Bladder Cancer", open to members and non-member clinicians and scientists in pathology, urology, oncology, and related fields, immediately after the 37th European Congress of Pathology (ECP), in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria. This consensus will be in person, without a hybrid format.

This conference will be hosted at the Josephinum (address: Währinger Str. 25, 1090 Wien, https://www.josephinum.ac.at). The hotel is approximately 10 km away from the Austria Center.

Meeting Objectives:

1. Refine histopathologic criteria for evaluating treatment effects

2. Establish Gleason grading recommendations post-treatment

3. Develop standardized criteria for grading treatment effects

4. Define criteria for pT0 cancer and evaluate current methods of minimal residual disease (MRD) detection

5. Outline best practices for ancillary studies, including immunohistochemical staining, molecular testing, AI, and diagnostic work-up protocols

6. Provide recommendations for pathology reporting

Working Group 1: Treatment Effects in Prostate Cancer

WG 1 Chairpersons: Gladell P. Paner, Alessia Cimadamore

Working Group 2: Treatment Effects in Bladder Cancer

WG 2 Chairpersons: Michelle R. Downes, Antonio Lopez-Beltran

General questions: Katrina Collins [email protected] and/or Nancy Greenland [email protected]

Local organizer and sponsor: Shahrokh F. Shariat, The Department of Urology and The Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Medical University Vienna

Partially sponsored by

Host or Publisher The International Society of Urological Pathology