CCS Communication Award Competitions

Scientific Image Contest

The Education Committee of the Cancer Cachexia Society (CCS-EC) is pleased to announce our finalists for the ‘CCS Scientific Image Contest.’ The finalists have shown their creativity and research by submitting their favorite scientific image taken during their research journey! The intention of this competition is to facilitate engagement with the public through dissemination of research findings to bring greater awareness to cancer cachexia.

A “People's Choice Award” will be awarded to the finalist whose scientific picture receives the highest number of cumulated likes on the social media platforms LinkedIn and X. Voting will end at midnight on Friday September 26th and the award presented on Saturday September 27th.

A “Conference Peer Award” will be awarded to the finalist whose scientific picture receives the highest number of votes on the Conference Whova platform.

Pietro Chiolerio
Human neuromuscular organoid at day 30 of differentiation. Immunofluorescence staining highlights two key cellular populations contributing to the formation of the neuromuscular system. In green, neuronal projections and budding axons are labeled with TUBB3, indicating the development of neurons and early network formation. In white, desmin-positive myogenic cells delineate aligned, elongated myotubes. This image captures a crucial stage of co-differentiation, where both neuronal and muscular components begin to structurally and functionally integrate within the organoid microenvironment.

Sai Vara Prasad Chitti
Whispers of Weight-The Tale of EVs: Day-1 all equal and bright. Day-12 Cas9 fades, grows thin. Day-22, cancer toll defied-EVG KO stands strong, no loss within.

Dario Coletti
Confocal image of murine DRG neurons: tyrosinated tubulin (red), acetylated tubulin (green), DAPI (blue). Bar 20µm. (Credits: S. Soares and L. Nguyen)

Min Deng
"Meatball" human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived muscle organoids. Immunofluorescence staining shows nuclei (DAPI, blue) and the skeletal muscle differentiation marker myosin heavy chain (MHC, green). Scale bar = 100 µm. (Day 8 of differentiation).

Claudia Di Biagio
This heart-shaped droplet reminds us: brown fat fuels more than warmth. Let’s share the love—and study how adipocytes feed tumour progression. The cartoon was created with BioRender ®

Gabriele Guarnaccia
Optimized SAA1 RNAscope probe from scratch, clear RNA upregulation seen in cachectic muscle, enabling precise in situ mapping where antibodies failed.

Francielly Morena
Spatial metabolomics of glycolytic and TCA intermediates in skeletal muscle subtypes of muscle-specific Bmal1 knockout mice under tumor burden.

Rosanna Piccirillo
In this image, the proteasome appears as a cake made by me while I was a postdoc in Prof. Goldberg’s lab at Harvard Medical School, Boston (years 2007-2012).

Lara Stassen
Mitochondrial networks in primary human skeletal muscle cells exposed to pancreatic tumoroid factors of a cachectic patient, visualized by CorrSight microscopy

Lay Video Award

The Education Committee of the Cancer Cachexia Society (CCS-EC) is pleased to announce our finalists for the ‘CCS Communication Award Competition for Lay Video.’ Each finalist has prepared a lay video presentation of their work including the basic science, translational and clinical relevance to cancer cachexia. The intention of this competition is to facilitate engagement with the public through dissemination of research findings to bring greater awareness to cancer cachexia. 

A “People's Choice Award” will be awarded to the finalist whose audiovisual production receives the highest number of cumulated likes on the social media platforms LinkedIn and X. Voting will end at midnight on Friday September 26th and the award presented on Saturday September 27th.

A “Conference Peer Award” will be awarded to the finalist whose audiovisual production receives the highest number of votes on the Conference Whova platform.