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32 Seminars Listed — 1 Upcoming

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2026 Seminar Schedule

2026 (5) 

Dec – 9 – 2026

Title: Mantle Cell Lymphoma: From Discovery to Cure

Speaker: Mike William, M.D. — University of Virginia School of Medicine

May – 6 – 2026

Title: Epithelial interleukin-2 in immune regulation and cancer

Speaker: Weizhou Zhang, Ph.D. — University of Florida

Apr – 29 – 2026

Title: Towards Curing Multiple Myeloma

Speaker: Saad Z. Usmani, M.D., MBA, FACP, FASCO — Memorial Sloan Kettering

Apr – 08 – 2026

Title: Tumor Evolution in Pancreatic cancer and its impact on treatment strategies

Speaker: Andrew Liss, Ph.D. — Massachusetts General Hospital

Jan – 21 – 2026

Title: Concepts driving therapeutic development in osteosarcoma

Speaker: Richard Gorlick, M.D. — University of Texas

 

2025 Seminar Schedule

2025 (4)

Dec – 17 – 2025

Title: Deconstruction benign-to-malignant transition in the colon

Speaker: Peter Westcott, Ph.D. — Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Nov – 19 – 2025

Title: Gut microbial metabolites to overcome CRC chemoresistance and enhance gut barrier function

Speaker: Venkatakrishna Rao Jala, Ph.D. — University of Louisville

Oct – 22 – 2025

Title: Genetic and Epigenetic Contributors to Early-onset Colorectal Cancer

Speaker: Megan P. Hitchins, Ph.D. — Moffitt Cancer Center, FL

Feb – 26 – 2025

Title: Small Molecules, Big Data: Illuminating the “Dark Matter” of Metabolomics

Speaker: Alexander Aksenov, Ph.D. — University of Connecticut, Storrs

 

All Past Seminars

2024 (6)

Dec – 18 – 2024

Title: risk and resistance in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

Speaker: Katherine L. Nathanson, M.D. — School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Nov – 20 – 2024

Title: breaking the obesity-cancer link: diet, drug, and surgical strategies

Speaker: Stephen D. Hursting, Ph.D. — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Oct – 30 – 2024

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

Apr – 17 – 2024

Title: locally bioavailable drugs for colon cancer chemoprevention

Speaker: Ming Hu, Ph.D. — University of Houston

Mar – 27 – 2024

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

Jan – 17 – 2024

Title: molecularly guided approaches for precision prevention of gi cancers

Speaker: David Drew, Ph.D — Harvard Medical School

 


2023 (6)

Dec – 13 – 2023

Title: Some Causes, mechanisms, and Preventatives for early onset colorectal cancer

Speaker: Lorne J. Hofseth, Ph.D. — University of South Carolina

Nov – 15 – 2023

Title: understanding and targeting the recalcitrant subtypes of lung cancer

Speaker: Trimaran Sen, Ph.D. — Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY

May – 03 – 2023

Title: Metabolic control of stress erythropoiesis

Speaker: Robert F. Paulson, Ph.D. — Penn State University

Mar – 29 – 2023

Title: Neuroscience of Inflammation

Speaker: Kevin J. Tracey, M.D. — Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Mar – 08 – 2023

Title: Amino Acids in Colon Cancer and Inflammation

Speaker: David C. Montrose, Ph.D. — Stony Brook University

Jan – 31 – 2023

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

 


2022 (5)

Nov – 16 – 2022

Title: Defining new pathways in colorectal tumors with mismatch repair deficiency

Speaker: Rosa Munoz Xicola, Ph.D. — Yale Cancer Center

Sep – 07 – 2022

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

May – 11 – 2022

Title: Models, Concepts and Molecular Insights into Colorectal Cancer Pathogenesis 

Speaker: Eric R. Fearon, M.D., Ph.D. — University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center

Feb – 23 – 2022

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

Jan – 05 – 2022

Title: Personalized Immunotherapy Combinations: Turning Up the Heat on Pancreatic Cancer

Speaker: Neeha Zaidi, M.D. — John Hopkins University

 


2020 (1)

Sep – 23 – 2020

Title: Genetic Changes Thyroid Cancer: Evolution Toward Predictive and Therapeutic Targeting

Speaker: Matthew D. Ringel, M.D. — Ohio State University – Comprehensive Cancer Center

 


2019 (5)

Nov – 18 – 2019

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

Nov – 06 – 2019

Title: Epigenetics in Hematopoiesis and Leukemia: The Role of the PAF1 Complex

Speaker: Andrew Muntean, Ph.D. — University of Michigan

Oct – 02 – 2019

Title: Bench to Bed and Back: Early Clinical Trials 

Speaker: Patricia Mucci LoRusso, D.O., Ph.D. — Yale Cancer Center, Yale University

Apr – 10 – 2019

Title: Microbial sulfur metabolism and colorectal cancer risk

Speaker: Rex Gaskins, PhD. — Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Feb – 27 – 2019

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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