For the XXXVI. GPOH Kind-Philipp-Meeting for research in pediatric oncology our team made the annual trip to Wilsede in the Lüneburger Heide. We shared insights with fellow colleagues in an array of over 70 talks accompanied by 5 keynote lectures. Over 130 participants were taking part in the fully booked event, listening carefully to a keynote Lecture by Ulrich Steidl from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Prof. Steidl gave the first keynote lecture about the dynamics of transcription in normal and malignant stem cells. The second day of the meeting two key note lectures were given, one by Katharina Imkeller about the immune response of the tumor microenvironment and a second one by Ulrich Schüller about the most recent updates in medulloblastoma. Following the next day were Matthias Peipp with a lecture about antibody lecture and Florian Perner with an insightful talk about disease persistence in AML. We were particularlly excited about this years Kind-Philipp-Presentation Award, as it was awarded to David and his talk about „Targeting the fetal transcriptional landscape of pediatric AML“. Congratulations David!