Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes: Gaps and Opportunities Forum Series (Upcoming Forums)
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | 11:30-1:00 pm ET
Lymph Nodes Remodeling in Health and Disease: Lessons for Cancer
Moderator & Speakers
Burkhard Ludewig, DVM Professor
Head Medical Research Center, Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Amanda W. Lund, PhD, Associate Professor
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Ivan Maillard, MD, PhD Head of Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Department of Medicine Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Sophie E. Acton, PhD Cancer Research UK Senior Cancer Research Fellow, Professor of Immunology
Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK
Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 12:00 to 1:30 pm ET
Events that Facilitate Metastasis to the Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes
Moderator & Speakers
Timothy P. Padera, PhD Professor of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Jessalyn M. Ubellacker, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Stefani Spranger, PhD Associate Director of Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan Villena-Vargas, MD Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center