NCI SPONSORED SESSIONS and SESSIONS FEATURING NCI STAFF
Tuesday, April 3
Immune Therapies: The Future Is Now
Plenary Session
9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Location: McCormick Place West (Level 3), Room W375 (Skyline Ballroom)
Speaker and Topic:
- Current status of recombinant pox-viral vaccines
James L. Gulley, Center for Cancer Research, NCI
NCI’s Early Detection Research Network (EDRN): Progress and Outlook
NCI SPONSORED SESSION
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Room W194
Speakers:
- Sudhir Srivastava (Chair), Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Pierre Massion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- Sandy Markowitz, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Arul Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
HIV Malignancies: Current Dilemmas and Future Directions
10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Room W187
Speakers:
- Richard F. Ambinder, (Chair), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Elizabeth Chiao, (Chair), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Corey Casper, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
- Meredith S. Shiels, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, MD
The NCI’s Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory: How to Evaluate Novel Materials for Cancer Therapy and Diagnosis
NCI SPONSORED SESSION
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room W194
Speakers:
- Piotr Grodzinski, (Chair), Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Scott E. McNeil, Office of the Director, NCI, Frederick, MD
- Neil Desai, Celgene Corp., Summit, NJ
- Jeff Hrkach, BIND Biosciences, Inc., Cambridge, MA
- Julia Y. Ljubimova, Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr., Los Angeles, CA
New Therapeutic Strategies in B-Cell Lymphoma and Leukemia Using Genomics and Signaling Inhibitors
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Room W187
Speakers:
- Kerry Savage, (Chair), BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Louis M. Staudt, (Chair), Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- John C. Byrd, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH
- Elias Campo, Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Post-GWAS Functional Characterization of Cancer Risk Loci
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Room S103
Speakers:
- Matthew L. Freedman, (Chair), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Stephen J. Chanock, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Thomas J. Hudson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Nazneen Rahman, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
- John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Nutrition and Cancer: How Much Does It Really Matter?
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Room S102
Speakers:
- John A. Milner, (Chair), Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Elio Riboli, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Henry J. Thompson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO