Annual CCR and DCEG Staff Scientists and Staff Clinicians Retreat (Agenda)

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