Agenda
A detailed agenda will be posted closer to the meeting.
Draft Agenda for Day 1: Monday, November 9, 2026
10:00am - Opening Comments
10:10am - Session 1: Cancer Model Systems
Speakers: Joshua Breunig Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Jungwoo Lee University of Massachusetts Amherst, Tania Konry Northeastern University
11:10am - Break
11:25am - Session 2: Proteomics Methods
Speakers: Wilhelm Haas Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Broad Institute, Casimir Bamberger The Scripps Research Institute
12:05pm - Panel Discussion 1
12:45pm - Lunch
1:45pm - Session 3: Liquid Biopsies
Speakers: Xing Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hyungsoon Im Massachusetts General Hospital, David Issadore University of Pennsylvania, Yue Lu Utah State University
3:05pm - Trainee Flash Talks
3:40pm - Poster Session 1
4:40pm - Poster Session 2
5:40pm - Adjourn
Evening: To be determined social event/group dinner
Draft Agenda for Day 2: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
9:00am - Welcome, Opening Comments by NCI Director Dr. Tony Letai
9:10am - Session 4: Spatial-omics
Speakers: Yanxiang Deng University of Pennsylvania, Ahmet Coskun Georgia Institute of Technology, Fei Chen Broad Institute
10:10am - Social Networking with NCI Program Staff
11:10am - Session 5: Immuno Engineering
Speakers: Jonathan Schneck, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Chris Garcia Stanford University, Meng Zhang Stanford University
12:10pm - Lunch
Concurrent: Early Career Session on training grants, career opportunities, and more
1:10pm - Commercialization Workshop
2:10pm - Panel Discussion
2:50pm - Break
3:05pm - Session 6: Detecting and Engineering Molecular Interactions
Speakers: Jarrod Marto University of Virginia, Amanda Kussrow Vanderbilt University, Elisa Biondi Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Jeffrey Ishizuka Yale School of Medicine
4:25pm - Session 7: High Throughput Assays to Interrogate Cell State
Speakers: Matthew Shorey Houston Methodist, Paul Blainey Broad Institute
5:05pm - Closing Comments