Agenda

Tumor Mutational Signatures
Co-Chairs: Maria Teresa Landi & Mila Prokunina-Olsson
Heritage Room

Making the Clinical Trials Approval Process More Efficient
Co-Chairs:  Caryn Steakley & Jeffrey Schlom
Portrait Room

Vaccines for Cancer in Infectious Diseases
Co-Chairs: George Pavlakis and Barbara Felber
Lecture Room A

Norman Sharpless, M.D.
Director, NCI

Tom Misteli, Ph.D.
Director, CCR

Stephen J. Chanock, M.D.
Director, DCEG

"Mining the Unexplored Kinome for New Therapeutic Targets and Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis"
John Brognard, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling, CCR

"From Germline Genetics to Function: Making Sense of Genome-Wide Association Studies for Pancreatic Cancer Risk"
Laufey Amundadottir, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Translational Genomics, DCEG

“Cancer Genomes: Beyond the Coding Regions”
Matthew L. Meyerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Medical Oncology
Director, Center of Cancer Genome Discovery
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Breakout Session II (Optional*) 

 RNAs in Cancer
Co-Chairs: Sandra Wolin & Pedro Batista
Portrait Room

New Directions in Approaches to Cancer Immunotherapy
Co-Chairs: Tim Greten & Christian Hinrichs
Lecture Room A

Drug Development
Co-Chairs: Patricia Steeg & Douglas Figg
Lecture Room B

“Imaging Tumor Initiation and Progression at Cellular and Sub-Cellular Resolution in Live Animals by Intravital Microscopy”
Roberto Weigert, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCR
 

"Cell Cycle Checkpoints As Therapeutic Targets in Ovarian Cancer"
Jung-Min Lee, Ph.D.
Women's Malignancies Branch, CCR

“Second Malignancy Risk After Cancer Treatment: From Old Medical Records to Survivorship Care Programs”
Flora E. van Leeuwen, Ph.D.
Department of Epidemiology
Head, Division of Psychosocial Research & Epidemiology
Netherlands Cancer Institute

*This year we will be hosting two (optional) breakout sessions. They are open on a “first come, first serve” basis. The breakout sessions will not overlap with the poster session but the second breakout session will overlap with lunch.