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Featuring Leading Researchers From Across The Country Presenting Cutting-Edge Findings In Molecular Oncology And Cancer Biology.

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21 Seminars Listed — 1 Upcoming — 20 Past

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2026 Seminar Schedule

November
16
2026

Title

TBD

Speaker: Mukesh K. Jain, M.D. – Brown University

May
6
2026

Title

TBD

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

April
29
2026

Title

Towards Curing Multiple Myeloma

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

April
8
2026

Title

TBD

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

January
21
2026

Title

Concepts driving therapeutic development in osteosarcoma

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

2025 Seminar Schedule

December
17
2025

Title

Deconstruction benign-to-malignant transition in the colon

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

November
19
2025

Title

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

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

November
17
2025

Title

Bones and Blood: My Journey As A Physician – Scientist

Speaker: Joy Y. Wu, M.D., Ph.D. – Stanford University, School of Medicine

October
22
2025

Title

Genetic and Epigenetic Contributors to Early-onset Colorectal Cancer

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

February
26
2025

Title

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

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

All Previous Seminars

November
13
2023

Title

A Peculiar Path To Public Health

Speaker: Dr. Scott Rivkees – Brown University

March
14
2022

Title

Multi-variable equations, dominos (not the pizza), and boats: some thoughts about science and academic medicine

Speaker: Alvin C. Powers, M.D. – Vanderbilt Diabetes Center

March
29
2021

Title

From reading the genome for risk, to rewriting it for cardiovascular health

Speaker: Sekar Kathiresan, M.D. – CEO of Verve Therapeutics

april
15
2019

Title

Rheuminations On A Career As A Physician Scientist

Speaker: Dr. Robert Colbert, M.D., Ph.D. – National Institutes of Health

april
9
2018

Title

On Being a Physician-Scientist

Speaker: Stephanie Eisenbarth – Yale University

february
27
2017

Title

The Career of the Physician-Scientist: One Story

Speaker: Margaret H. Baron, M.D., Ph.D. – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

March
21
2016

Title

To Be A Physician-Scientist: The Good, The Bad And The Amazing

Speaker: Michael Rosenblum, M.D., Ph.D. – University of California

March
25
2015

Title

Finding Cardiomyopathy Genes: Lessons Learned About Biomedical Science & Career Choice

Speaker: Christine Seidman, M.D. – Harvard Medical School

March
10
2015

Title

The Joys of Translational Research

Speaker: Barry Coller, M.D. – Rockefeller University

March
7
2011

Title

The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?

Speaker: Andrew I. Schafer, M.D. – Weill Cornell Medical College

TbD
1
2010

Title

Finding Your Way as a Physician-Scientist

Speaker: Kenneth Kaushansky, M.D. – State University of New York

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