2026 Single-Cell Cancer Biology Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

Project Summary
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference in Single Cell Cancer Biology (GRC-SCCB) is a 7-day conference
that will be held March 21-27 at the Four Points Sheraton hotel in Ventura, California.
The
rapid advancement
of single cell technologies has provided an unprecedented opportunity to answer longstanding questions about
the impact of intratumor heterogeneity, cellular plasticity, clonal evolution, tumor-stroma
interactions, and mechanisms of metastasis and therapeutic resistance. These questions have been difficult to
address through characterization of bulk tissue samples, which are limited to providing an average signal from
a complex population of cells.
cancer, such as
The specific aims of the 2026 GRC-SCCB are to 1) present new discoveries in
cancer made using single cell approaches, 2) highlight technological and analytic advances for analyzing
single cell data, 3) foster cross-disciplinary collaboration to drive new innovation and discovery, 4) promote
clinical application of new technologies and discoveries, and 5) provide a forum for the scientific and career
development of junior investigators.
The meeting
will bring together experts in industry and academia, with
wide-ranged expertise in cancer biology, imaging, engineering, single cell technologies, computational biology,
and clinical oncology to
foster new ideas, collaborations, and leadership for the coming decade of rapid
progress in in the field of single cell cancer biology.

Grant Number: 1R13CA310751-01
NIH Institute/Center: NIH
Principal Investigator: Ken Chen