The scientific initiative aims to gather the interdisciplinary knowledge on gastritis and gastritis-related gastric malignancies. From May to November 2022, 35 leading international experts in the field from all continents have been involved in this initiative, including the director of UL ICPM Mārcis Leja. In this period of time, the experts have had multiple meetings in virtual mode for the critical evaluation of the available scientific evidence and for the necessary insights. The meeting in Venice concludes the initiative by summarizing the conclusions of these meetings.
The cancer epidemiologist Maria Constanza Camargo, representing the National Cancer Institute (USA), reported the role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the pathogenesis of gastritis and gastic cancer. The reserach has been developed with Candidate of Sciences, chemoterapist Evita Gašenko (Latvia).
 project takes place from November 7 to 10 in Venice, Italy.){kind=link}