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Translational Medicine Seminars 2016-2017
Noon
Reimann Auditorium
Fox Chase Cancer Center
- 10/21/16 "Targeting the Lysosome in Cancer” Ravi Amaravadi, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Co-Leader, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - 11/18/16 “GIST: A Simple, yet Complex, Model of Translational Medicine” Margaret von Mehren, MD
Chief, Sarcoma Program, Physician Director, Clinical Trials Office, Associate Director, Clinical Research, Professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center - 12/16/16 “Refining Treatment Paradigms for Localized and Advanced Bladder Cancer: An Update from the Fox Chase Cancer Center GU Translational Research Group” Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS
Chief, GU Medical Oncology, Director, Genitourinary Clinical Research, Associate Professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center - 1/20/17 "MYC, Metabolic Vulnerabilities, and Therapy” Chi Van Dang, MD and PhD John H. Glick, MD
Abramson Cancer Director’s Professor, Director, Abramson Cancer Center, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - 2/17/17 “Understanding the Biology of Melanoma to Develop New Strategies for Therapy”, Meenhard Herlyn, DVM, DSc
Caspar Wistar Professor in Melanoma Research, Director, The Wistar Institute Melanoma Research Center, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program - 3/17/17 “Combining Radiation Therapy with Immune Checkpoint Blockade” Amit Maity, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - 5/19/17 “Advances in Ovarian Cancer” Denise Connolly, PhD
Associate Professor, Director, Biosample Repository Facility, Fox Chase Cancer Center - 6/16/17 "Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer Metastatic Organotropism" Anil Rustgi, MD
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Director, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania