The Meyer Cancer Center Seminar Series features leaders, luminaries and rising stars in cancer research and clinical practice.
The lectures are held monthly in the Belfer Research Building.
2017
January 18, 2017
Lajos Pustzai, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University, Immune sculpting of the triple-negative breast cancer genome
February 15, 2017
Tim Chan, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering, Immunotherapy: What's genes got to do with it?
March 15, 2017
Rakesh Jain, Ph.D., Harvard University, Re-engineering the Tumor Microenvironment to Improve Cancer Treatment
April 12, 2017
Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D, Case Western Reserve University, Genetic Lessons from Colon Cancer
May 24, 2017
Scott Lippman, M.D., University of California-San Diego, Pre-Cancer Atlas to Drive Precision Prevention and Immue Interception
June 21, 2017
Benjamin Neel, M.D., Ph.D., New York University, New Signaling Connections in Cancer
July 19, 2017
Anthony Green, M.D., Ph.D., University of Cambridge, JAK/STAT Signaling, Stem Cell Subversion and Myeloid Malignancies
September 20, 2017
Victor Engelhard, Ph.D., University of Virginia
October 18, 2017
Jim Allison, Ph.D., University of Texas - MD Anderson
November 15, 2017
Raffaela Sordella, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
December 13, 2017
Karen Knudsen, Ph.D., Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
2016
January 6, 2016
Kristy Brown, Ph.D., Hudson Institute, Sex, Fat and Breast Cancer: The link between inflammation, dysregulated metabolism, and estrogen production
February 17, 2016
Luis Parada, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering, The role of cell of origin & cancer stem cells in GBM Phenotype
March 16, 2016
Michael Pollak, M.D., McGill University, Diabetes, obesity and cancer: Pharmacology and physiology at the interface
May 18, 2016
Steve Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, USC, Cancer Genetics at the interface of immunology, patient care and population science
May 25, 2016
Harinder Singh, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Towards a gene regulatory logic of immune cell development and function
June 15, 2016
Melody Swartz, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Multifaceted roles of lymphatic vessels in regulating tumor immunity
September 21, 2016
Martin Eilers, Ph.D., University of Wurzburg, Protein complexes of MYC and N-MYC protein as targets for tumor therapy
October 19, 2016
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia, The changing landscape of cancer: Past, present and future
November 16, 2016
Andrea Califano, Ph.D., Columbia, A "precise" approach to precision cancer medicine
December 14, 2016
Alec Kimmelman, M.D., Ph.D., New York University, Identifying metabolic dependencies in pancreatic cancer
2015
January 20, 2015
Gerburg Wulf, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Regulation of tumor metabolism by PI3K: Biology and therapeutics
January 21, 2015
Ricky Johnstone, Ph.D., Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Epigenetic Targets in Leukemia and Lymphoma
February 4, 2015
Carlos Arteaga, M.D., Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Neoadjuvant Trials in Breast Cancer: Role in Clinical Development and Discovery of Mechanisms of Drug Resistance
March 19, 2015
Ernest Hawk, M.D., MPH, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Advancing Cancer Prevention and Control as Plan A
April 8, 2015
Charlie Fuchs, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Leveraging Cohort Studies to Inform Colorectal Cancer Treatment, Prevention and Biology
April 15, 2015
Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Control of anti-tumor immunity by the ER stress response: Insights from IRE1a/XBP1
May 5, 2015
Michael Maitland, M.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago, Adding ART to the Science of Personalized/Precision Oncology
June 13, 2015
Bertrand Nadel, Ph.D., Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Follicular lymphoma: Immunogenics ahead of disease
July 24, 2015
Olivier Bernard, Ph.D., Institut Gustave Roussy INSERM, At the origins of adult hematopoietic malignancies
August 14, 2015
Alex Swarbrick, Ph.D., Garvan Institute and Kinghorn Cancer Center, Transcriptional control of breast cancer aetiology
September 16, 2015
Silvia C. Formenti, M.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Potential of radiation therapy to convert the tumor into an in situ vaccine
October 21, 2015
Harold Varmus, M.D., Weill Cornell Medicine, Confronting Cancer’s Complexity
November 18, 2015
Celeste Simon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Metabolic Adaptations in Renal Cancer
December 16, 2015
Benjamin Garcia, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Quantitative proteomics for understanding modified proteins and proteomes