/ Veranstaltungen

/ 91st Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Pathology (SGPath/SSPath)

91st Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Pathology (SGPath/SSPath)

Date

12.11.2026 - 14.11.2026

Event location

Kultur & Kongresshaus Aarau
5000 Aarau

Organizer

SGPath - Symposium and Seminar Management

Deadline for applications

14.11.2026

Online registration

91st Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Pathology (SGPath/SSPath)

We are pleased to invite you to the 91st Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Pathology in Aarau. In combination with the 4th Swiss Pathology Days and the 2026 General Assembly, this congress offers an ideal platform for scientific exchange, continued education, and networking within the Swiss pathology community.

Highlights:

Postgraduate Course
Scientific Program: Intersecting Roads to Success
Slide Seminar
Poster Session and Award Ceremony
Industrial Exhibition and Industry Symposium
Networking

Abstract submission here

Language: English

CME Credits:

Postgraduate Course (morning): 3 Credits
Pathology Annual Congress Thursday (afternoon): 5 Credits
Pathology Annual Congress Friday: 9 Credits
Slide Seminar - Participation: 3 Credits
Slide Seminar - Diagnoses: 3 Credits

We look forward to welcoming you to Aarau for an inspiring congress!

Program Donnerstag, 12. November 2026

Time	Topic	Moderation/Speaker
08:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Postgraduate Course: Unpuzzling the Prostate - Spotting Patterns and Pitfalls Part I	Glen Kristiansen, Rainer Grobholz
10:30 - 11:00	Break & Industry Exhibition
11:00 - 12:00	Postgraduate Course: Unpuzzling the Prostate - Spotting Patterns and Pitfalls Part II	Glen Kristiansen, Rainer Grobholz
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch, Industry Exhibition & Registration
13:00 - 13:15	Official Opening & Welcome	Rainer Grobholz, Sylvia Höller
	Scientific Session I: Extranodal lymphomas and its mimickers - Is every lymphocyte a lymphoma?	Chairs: Bettina Bisig, Diana Born
13:15 - 13:40	Lung	Jasmin Haslbauer
13:40 - 14:05	Gastrointestinal tract	Bastian Dislich
14:05 - 14:30	Breast	Umberto Maccio
14:30 - 15:00	Industry Symposium: Roche Resolving Diagnostic Ambiguity: Practical Applications of Kappa/Lambda Dual ISH in hematopathology	Laurence de Leval
15:00 - 15:30	Break, Industry Exhibition
15:00 - 15:30	Moderated Poster Session I	Chairs: Matthias Rössel, Thomas McKee
	Keynote Lecture	Chair: Elias Schulze
15:30 - 16:15	Decisions at the Edge of Life	Marc Hauser
16:15 - 16:45	Free Oral Presentations I	Chairs: Umberto Maccio, Elias Schulze
16:15 - 16:22	HK3 Identifies a Distinct Activated Macrophage Subset in Human Granulomatous Skin Diseases	Carmen Kalbermatter
16:23 - 16:30	Can pathologists reproducibly classify tumor deposits under the 9th edition TNM?	Nina Baumgartner
16:31 - 16:38	Quantitative profiling of desmoplasia identifies an architectural continuum with spatial resolved molecular programs associating with survival in colorectal cancer	Hanna Williams
16:38 - 16:45	HistoBrainAtlas: An Interpretable Histopathology-Based Atlas of Human Brain Cytoarchitecture Across the Lifespan	Niccolo Disacciati
16:45 - 18:00	Scientific Session II: Soft tissue lesions - Is every spindle cell a sarcoma?	Chairs: Daniel Baumhoer, Sylvia Höller
16:45 - 17:10	Thorax	Sabine Berezowska
17:10 - 17:35	Skin	Kathrin Glatz
17:35 - 18:00	Head & Neck	Niels Rupp
18:30 - 20:00	Institute Directors Conference

Program Freitag, 13. November 2026

Time	Topic	Moderation/Speaker
07:00	Registration
	Scientific Session III: How to navigate in the land down under - critical lesions in GU pathology	Chairs: Antonio Rodriguez, Tatjana Vlajnic
08:00 - 08:25	Malignant or not? - Bladder	Eva Comperat
08:25 - 08:50	Not always epithelial - stromal lesions in prostate	Glen Kristiansen
08:50 - 09:15	What to do if it is not blue - Oncocytic tumors	Holger Moch
09:15 - 09:45	Free Oral Presentations II	Chairs: Martina Haberecker, Peter Bode
09:15 - 09:22	Multicenter Evaluation of Ex Vivo Confocal Microscopy for Frozen Section Diagnosis of Bronchoscopic Samples	Martina Haberecker
09:22 - 09:29	Image-based consensus molecular subtyping refines prognostication in stage II/III colorectal cancer: retrospective analysis of 2,816 cases from the SCOT trial	Maxime Lafarge
09:29 - 09:36	Multi-cancer lymph-node metastasis screening across institutions using Lumen: a pathology vision-language foundation model	Kiarash Tajbaksh
09:36 - 09:43	Clinical Validation and Deployment of HPyloriDet for AI-Assisted Helicobacter pylori Detection in Routine Digital Pathology	Nicolas Brandt
09:45 - 10:45	Break & Industry Exhibition
10:00 - 10:30	Poster Exhibition
	Scientific Session IV: Cystic Lesions revisited - Bursting the Bubble	Chairs: Bastian Dislich, Ekkehard Hewer
10:45 - 11:10	Head & Neck	Daniel Baumhoer
11:10 - 11:35	Pancreas	Eva Diamantis
11:35 - 12:00	Liver	Achim Weber
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch & Industry Exhibition
12:05 - 12:35	General Assembly Swiss Society of Molecular Pathology
12:45 - 12:35	Moderated Poster Session II	Chairs: Jasmin Haslbauer, Bettina Bisig
	Scientific Session V: Digital Pathology - Chances and Challenge	Chairs: Inti Zlobec, Andrew Janowczyk
13:30 - 14:00	Industry Symposium: Agilent Digital Pathology Unlocking Diagnostic Precision with Concentriqu Digital Pathology Unlocking Efficiency with the Agilent S540 Label Scanner	Stephan Frome, Proscia Stephan Jansen, Agilent
14:00 - 14:30	AI Under Attack: Cybersecurity Risks and the Hackability of Modern AI Tools	Raphael Reischuk
14:30 - 15:00	Black Boxes in White Coats: Can AI Really Be Explained?	Mauricio Reyes
15:00 - 15:30	Deep Learning - Shallow Understanding? The Clinical Limits of AI Biomarker Prediction	Fayyaz Minhas
15:30 - 16:00	Break, Poster Exhibition & Industry Exhibition
	Scientific Session VI: Next Generation Frozen Section	Chairs: Eva Comperat, Rainer Grobholz
16:00 - 16:30	Confocal laser scanning microsopy – are we ready to break the ice?	Peter Wild
16:30 - 17:00	NeuroSAFE and LaserSAFE in Prostataectomies: Rescue my nerves!	Anna Silvanto, Aswathy Menon
	Special Session: Pathology at the crossroads of training and trials	Chairs: Yara Banz, Anne-Laure Rougemont
17:00 - 17:30	Entrusted Professional Activities in Pathology	Adrian Marty
17:30 - 18:00	Building Bridges: SSPath and Swiss Cancer Institute	Anne-Laure Rougemont, Roch-Philippe Charles
18:00 - 18:15	Poster Prize Ceremony	Chair: Matthias Rössel
19:00 - 23:00	Gala Dinner featuring Teddy Hall

Program Samstag, 14. November 2026

Time	Topic	Moderation/Speaker
08:00	Registration
08:30 - 10:00	General Assembly SSPath
10:00 - 10:30	Registration, Break & Industry Exhibition
	Slide Seminar I	Chair: Heather Dawson
10:30 - 10:45	Case 1	Eva Comperat
10:45 - 11:00	Case 2	Eva Comperat
11:00 - 11:15	Case 3	Jasmin Haslbauer
11:15 - 11:30	Case 4	Niels Rupp
11:30 - 12:00	Break & Industry Exhibition
	Slide Seminar II	Chair: Heather Dawson
12:00 - 12:15	Case 5	Achim Weber
12:15 - 12:30	Case 6	Zsuzsanna Varga
12:30 - 12:45	Case 7	Zsuzsanna Varga
12:45 - 13:00	Case 8	Elias Schulze

Program subject to change

General downloads

Programm Jahreskongress SGPath 2026

Prices in CHF

What	Seats	Designation
Half-Day Postgraduate Course	300	Normal Ticket 140.00
2 Days SGPath	300	SGPath Members 350.00 Junior SGPath (Residents) 180.00 Non-Members 580.00 Students/Residents Non-Members 240.00
1 Day (THURSDAY)	300	Members SGPath 190.00 Junior SGPath Members (Residents) 100.00 Non-Members 300.00 Students/ Residents Non-Members 130.00
1 Day (FRIDAY)	300	Members SGPath 190.00 Junior SGPath Members (Residents) 100.00 Non-Members 300.00 Students/Residents Non-Members 130.00
Slide Seminar	300	Members SGPath 0.00 Non-Members 140.00 Students/Residents (Non-Members) 90.00
Gala Dinner	45	Gala Dinner 100.00

Cancellation conditions

Thank you for your binding registration. Please note our cancellation policy below.

If you cancel 30 to 15 days before the event, we charge 50% - 14 days before the event or if you don’t show up, we charge 100%. If the participant cancels before the deadlines mentioned above, we reserve the right to charge a cancellation fee for administrative costs.
Amount: CHF 30.-However, you always have the option to send a substitute. By signing up, you confirm that you have read and accepted these terms.

Deadline for applications

14.11.2026

Online registration

Hauptsponsor

Sponsor Kat. 3

Sponsor Kat. 4