BES annual meeting 15–16 October 2026

Study in early diagnosis of adrenal carcinoma

Our team is currently designing an academic multicentric study entitled OPTIM-ACC, which aims to evaluate the role of metabolomics and liquid biopsy in the early diagnosis of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and in the detection of its recurrence (annoucement letter attached). This project has been made possible thanks to the generous fundraising initiative of a patient’s family (“Mathilde et ses étoiles”). The study sponsor is the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain). Given the very low incidence of ACC (approximately 1–2 cases per million person-years), this study will be multicentric, and collaboration across endocrine centers will be essential.

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Prof. Vincent Geenen to receive the Endocrine Society 2026 Delbert A. Fisher Research Scholar Award

The Belgian Endocrine Society is proud to announce that one of our members, prof. Vincent Geenen, has been selected to receive the 2026 Delbert A. Fisher Research Scholar Award. He will present during ENDO 2026 in Chicago the Clark T. Sawin Memorial History of Endocrinology Lecture entitled: "History of the Thymus: from a vestigial organ to the unique orchestrator of central self-tolerance to neuroendocrine principles" We would like to congratulate him with this prestigious award and recommend attending his lecture if you are present at ENDO 2026.

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BELCOME@GHD study

The BELSPEED Scientific Committee would like to invite you to take part in our study entitled BELCOME@GHD: BELux Children OutcoME during A(@)dulthood with GHD.