Proposed Agenda
19th Annual CCR and DCEG Staff Scientists and Staff Clinicians Retreat
Redefining What’s Possible: Development of novel cancer therapies
Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Location: NCI Shady Grove Campus
9609 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
| 8:45 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks, Stephen Chanock, MD, Director Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI |
| 9:00 a.m. | Amy LeBlanc, Ph.D., Director of the Comparative Oncology Program, CCR, NCI |
| 9:30 a.m. | Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D., Deputy Director National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. |
| 10:00 a.m. | Keynote Lecture 1: Claudia Palena, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Center for Immuno-Oncology, CCR, NCI |
| 11:00 a.m. | Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis, Ph.D., Stadtman Investigator RNA Biology Laboratory, CCR, NCI |
| 11:30 a.m. | Poster Session 1/Lunch |
| 12:00 p.m. | Poster Session 2/Lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. | Address from the SSSC Co-Chairs |
| 1:00 p.m. | Keynote Lecture 2: Dafna Bar-Sagi, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Professor, Department of Medicine. NYU Grossman School of Medicine. |
| 2:00 p.m. | 10-minute presentations from top 5 ranked selected abstracts |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3.30 p.m. | Mitchell Machiela, Sc.D., M.P.H., Stadtman Investigator, Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, NCI |
| 4:00 p.m. | CCR Office of Translational Resources (OTR), William Douglas Figg Sr., Pharm.D., Chief Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, Co-Director of the OTR, Chief of the Clinical Pharmacology Program at CCR and Chief of the Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory |
| 4:20 p.m. | Awards presentations, Erika Ginsburg, M.A., Branch Director, Center for Cancer Training (CCT), Office of Training and Education (OTE), NCI |
| 4:30 p.m. | Closing remarks, Tom Misteli, Ph.D., Director, Center for Cancer Research, NCI |