Agenda

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

08:00 am EST
Check-In | Rosenstock Hall
09:00 am EST
Opening Remarks

 

 


Kimryn Rathmell, M.D., Ph.D., M.M.H.C
Director, NCI

09:15 am EST
Overview Remarks

 



Stephen Chanock, M.D.
Director
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, NCI

09:30 am EST
Overview Remarks

James Gulley, M.D., Ph.D.
Acting Co-Director
Center for Cancer Research, NCI

 

Carol Thiele, Ph.D.
Acting Co-Director
Center for Cancer Research, NCI

Session 1:  Research Presentations

09:45 am EST
Defining the Importance of Neutrophils in Bone Metastatic Prostate Cancer

 


Leah Cook, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Cancer Innovation Laboratory, CCR

10:05 am EST
Genetic Drivers and Cellular Selection of Female Mosaic X Chromosome Loss

 


Mitchell Machiela, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Senior Investigator
Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, DCEG

10:25 am EST
Enhanced Systemic Anti-Tumor Immunity Following Neoadjuvant TGFb+PDL1 Blockade in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Carcinoma

 


Clint Allen, M.D.
Acting Chief
Surgical Oncology Program, CCR

10:45 am EST
21st Annual NCI Rosalind E. Franklin Award

 


Julie Buring, ScD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

11:45 am EST
Lunch & Breakout Sessions (Optional*)
01:00 pm EST
Poster Sessions

Poster Session takes place in the Hood Library on both the 2nd and 3rd floors.

Session II:  Research Presentations 

02:45 pm EST
NCI Research Highlights Presentations

 


Rena Jones, Ph.D., M.S.
Investigator
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, DCEG

03:05 pm EST
NCI Research Highlights Presentations

 


Stephanie Harmon, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
Molecular Imaging Branch, CCR

03:25 pm EST
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cell Cycle Dynamics and Heterogenous Cell Fates

 


Steven Cappell, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator
Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR

03:45 pm EST
27th Annual Alfred G. Knudson Award

 


Kevan Shokat, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

04:45 pm EST
WSA Mentor Awards Ceremony
05:00 pm EST
NCI CCR & DCEG Directors’ Hosted Reception

Reception will take place in the Hood College Library, 1st floor