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

09:05 am EST
Overview Remarks

 



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

09:15 am EST
Overview Remarks

 

 


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

09:22 am EST
Overview Remarks

 

 


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

Session 1:  Research Presentations
Chair: Deborah Citrin, M.D., CCR

09:30 am EST
Early Onset Cancer Rates in the United States, 2010-2019

Meredith Shiels, Ph.D., M.H.S.
Senior Investigator, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, DCEG

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.
Senior Investigator
Surgical Oncology Program, CCR

10:45 am EST
Large Primary Prevention Trials of Cancer in Women: One Investigator’s Perspective

21st Annual NCI Rosalind E. Franklin Award 

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

11:45 am EST
Lunch & Breakout Sessions (Optional*)

AI and Cloud Computing in Cancer Research for All | Room 1026
Moderator: Jonas Almeida, Ph.D., DCEG & Peter Kraft, Ph.D., DCEG

 

Multimodal Resistance: The Final Frontier in Overcoming
Resistance to Treatments and Controlling Cancer | Room 2028
Moderators: Senthil Muthuswamy, Ph.D., CCR and Michael Gottesman, M.D., CCR

How Do Spatial Omics Transform the Landscape of Cancer Research and Treatment? | Room 2006
Moderators: Lichun Ma, Ph.D., CCR and Chen Zhao, M.D., CCR

Community Engaged Research | Room 2020
Moderators: Sarah Jackson, Ph.D., DCEG, Brenda Adjei, Ed.D., M.P.A., CCR and Jonine Figueroa,
Ph.D., M.P.H., DCEG

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 
Chair: Peter Kraft, Ph.D., DCEG

02:30 pm EST
Environmental Pollution and Cancer: Novel Strategies to Understand Risks

 


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

02:50 pm EST
Evolution of Aggressive Prostate Cancer Histology: What Does AI Tell Us?

 


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

03:10 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

03:30 pm EST
Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Oncogene K-Ras

 


 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

04:30 pm EST
WSA Mentoring and Leadership Awards Ceremony

Presenters: Marie-Josèphe Horner, Ph.D., DCEG and Natalie Porat-Shliom, Ph.D., CCR

04:45 pm EST
NCI CCR & DCEG Directors’ Hosted Reception

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