April 22, 2021
2021 Susan Swerling Lectures Mechanisms and Control of COVID-19 Guest Speakers: Ralph S. Baric, PhD Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD Michael J. Mina, MD, PhD View Presentation Here April 29, 2021
2021 Rose Winer Levin Lecture Alex K. Shalek, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology| Cambridge, MA “Identifying and Rationally Modulating Cellular Drivers of Tumor Responses” Host: Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD View Presentation Here May 6, 2021
2021 Emily Frederick DiMaggio Lecture Elli Papaemmanuil, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York “Translating recent genomic discoveries into clinical practice” Host: Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD View Presentation Here May 20, 2021 2021 Frederick P. Li Lecture Christian Kratz, M.D. Hannover Medical School | Hannover, Germany “Cancer Predisposition Syndromes - Moving from Syndrome to Spectrum” Host: Judy Garber, MD View Presentation Here May 20, 2021
2021 Charles I. Seigal Memorial Lecture Jan Lammerding, PhD Cornell University | Ithaca, NY “Nuclear Mechanbiology in Tumor Cell Migration” Host: David Pellman, MD View Presentation Here June 3, 2021 2021 Krakoff Family Lecture Elizabeth Jaffee, MD The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD “Turning the Heat Up on Pancreatic Cancer: Lessons on Overcoming a 'Cold' Immunologic Micro-environment” Host: Andrew Aguirre, PhD View Presentation Here June 10, 2021
2021 Nicola David-Pinedo Lecture David Steensma, MD Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA “Targeting aberrant splicing in hematologic malignancies” Host: James Griffin, MD View Presentation Here June 17, 2021
2021 Harriet Tischler Memorial Lecture Ashani Weeraratna, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY “Age against the machine: how age impacts tumor progression” Host: Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD View Presentation Here June 24, 2021 2021 Louise and Herbert Shivek Lecture Scott Keeney, PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York “Some assembly required: How to build a meiotic DNA breaking machine” Host: Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD View Presentation Here September 2, 2021 Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD New York University School of Medicine | New York “Identifying Metabolic Dependencies in Pancreatic Cancer” Host: Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD View Presentation Here September 9, 2021 Jinghui Zhang, PhD St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN “Genomic Variants in Pediatric Cancer: Model for Relapse, Precision Oncology and Data Sharing Ecosystem” Host: Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD View Presentation Here September 23, 2021 Sarah Hill, MD, PhD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA “Dissecting high grade serous ovarian cancer therapeutic response using novel patient-derived organoid co-cultures” Host: Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD View Presentation Here September 30, 2021 Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD NYU Langone Health School of Medicine | New York “New Approaches to Targeting Cancer” Host: Jean Zhao, PhD View Presentation Here October 7, 2021 Roel Verhaak, PhD The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Farmington, CT “Transcriptional regulation and extrachromosomal DNA elements in cancer” Host: Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD View Presentation Here October 14, 2021 Kun-Liang Guan, PhD University of California San Diego | San Diego, CA “Hippo Signaling and Cancer” Host: Jean Zhao, PhD View Presentation Here October 21, 2021 2021 Marjorie Beth Salmon Memorial Lecture Judith Balmana, MD, PhD Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology | Barcelona, Spain “Advances in personalized medicine with the use of PARP inhibitors and a novel biomarker of Homologous Recombination Repair (HRD)" Host: Judy Garber, MD, MPH View Presentation Here October 28, 2021 Anindya Dutta, MD, PhD University of Alabama Birmingham | Birmingham, AL “The changing face of biology/medicine dictated by genomics" Host: Peter Sicinski, MD, PhD View Presentation Here November 4, 2021 Dana Pe'er, PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York “Cellular Plasticity in Cancer" Host: Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD View Presentation Here November 11, 2021 Daniel Durocher, PhD Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Institute | Toronto, Canada Synthetic lethality in genome maintenance pathways: from discovery to translation Host: Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD View Presentation Here November 18, 2021 Patricia Steeg, PhD National Cancer Institute & National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD Brain Metastasis of Breast Cancer Host: David Frank, MD, PhD View Presentation Here December 2, 2021 Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center | Nashville, TN Subclonal Evolution: A Touching Story Host: Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD View Presentation Here December 16, 2021 David Largaespada, PhD University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN CRISPR and Transposon Based Screens for Cancer: New Drug Targets and Synthetic Vulnerabilities in Sarcoma Host: Thomas Look, MD View Presentation Here |