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Scholars In Cancer – Lecture Series
Featuring leading researchers from across the country presenting cutting-edge findings in molecular oncology and cancer biology.
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2026—2027 Seminar Schedule
Title: Mantle Cell Lymphoma: From Discovery to Cure
Speaker: Mike William, M.D. — University of Virginia School of Medicine
Title: Epithelial interleukin-2 in immune regulation and cancer
Speaker: Weizhou Zhang, Ph.D. — University of Florida
Title: Towards Curing Multiple Myeloma
Speaker: Saad Z. Usmani, M.D., MBA, FACP, FASCO — Memorial Sloan Kettering
Title: Tumor Evolution in Pancreatic cancer and its impact on treatment strategies
Speaker: Andrew Liss, Ph.D. — Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: Concepts driving therapeutic development in osteosarcoma
Speaker: Richard Gorlick, M.D. — University of Texas
All Past Seminars
Title: Deconstruction benign-to-malignant transition in the colon
Speaker: Peter Westcott, Ph.D. — Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Title: Gut microbial metabolites to overcome CRC chemoresistance and enhance gut barrier function
Speaker: Venkatakrishna Rao Jala, Ph.D. — University of Louisville
Title: Genetic and Epigenetic Contributors to Early-onset Colorectal Cancer
Speaker: Megan P. Hitchins, Ph.D. — Moffitt Cancer Center, FL
Title: Small Molecules, Big Data: Illuminating the “Dark Matter” of Metabolomics
Speaker: Alexander Aksenov, Ph.D. — University of Connecticut, Storrs
Title: risk and resistance in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Speaker: Katherine L. Nathanson, M.D. — School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Title: breaking the obesity-cancer link: diet, drug, and surgical strategies
Speaker: Stephen D. Hursting, Ph.D. — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: experimental pathology: Utilizing Multiplex Tissue Imagining for immunotherapy biomarker discovery and digital pathology
Speaker: Travis Hollmann, M.D., Ph.D. — Head of Translational Pathology Bristol Myers Squibb
Title: locally bioavailable drugs for colon cancer chemoprevention
Speaker: Ming Hu, Ph.D. — University of Houston
Title: identifying new therapeutic targets by understanding interactions between cancer cells and bone niche
Speaker: Jesus Delgado-Calle, Ph.D. — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Title: molecularly guided approaches for precision prevention of gi cancers
Speaker: David Drew, Ph.D — Harvard Medical School
Title: Some Causes, mechanisms, and Preventatives for early onset colorectal cancer
Speaker: Lorne J. Hofseth, Ph.D. — University of South Carolina
Title: understanding and targeting the recalcitrant subtypes of lung cancer
Speaker: Trimaran Sen, Ph.D. — Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY
Title: Metabolic control of stress erythropoiesis
Speaker: Robert F. Paulson, Ph.D. — Penn State University
Title: Neuroscience of Inflammation
Speaker: Kevin J. Tracey, M.D. — Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Title: Amino Acids in Colon Cancer and Inflammation
Speaker: David C. Montrose, Ph.D. — Stony Brook University
Title: Tumor, Normal, and Plasma DNA Sequencing to Inform Cancer Care, Cancer Risk, and Cancer Detection
Speaker: Michael F. Berger, Ph.D. — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title: Defining new pathways in colorectal tumors with mismatch repair deficiency
Speaker: Rosa Munoz Xicola, Ph.D. — Yale Cancer Center
Title: Translational Immunogenomics for B cell malignancies
Speaker: Samir Parekh, M.B.B.S. — Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai New York, NY
Title: Models, Concepts and Molecular Insights into Colorectal Cancer Pathogenesis
Speaker: Eric R. Fearon, M.D., Ph.D. — University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Title: New roles for mismatch repair proteins: diagnostic and therapeutic heroes
Speaker: Svasti Haricharan, Ph.D. — Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute – Aging and Cancer Immuno-oncology Program
Title: Personalized Immunotherapy Combinations: Turning Up the Heat on Pancreatic Cancer
Speaker: Neeha Zaidi, M.D. — John Hopkins University
Title: Genetic Changes Thyroid Cancer: Evolution Toward Predictive and Therapeutic Targeting
Speaker: Matthew D. Ringel, M.D. — Ohio State University – Comprehensive Cancer Center
Title: Unique targeting of metastasis and tumor suppressors by clinically-trialed, innovative anticancer agents that inhibit multiple oncogenic signaling pathways.
Speaker: Des R. Richardson, Ph.D. — University of Sydney
Title: Epigenetics in Hematopoiesis and Leukemia: The Role of the PAF1 Complex
Speaker: Andrew Muntean, Ph.D. — University of Michigan
Title: Bench to Bed and Back: Early Clinical Trials
Speaker: Patricia Mucci LoRusso, D.O., Ph.D. — Yale Cancer Center, Yale University
Title: Microbial sulfur metabolism and colorectal cancer risk
Speaker: Rex Gaskins, PhD. — Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Title: Regulation of miRNA in breast cancer by methylation reader HNRNPA2B1
Speaker: Carolyn M. Klinge, Ph.D. — University of Louisville School of Medicine
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