American Association for Cancer Research

Schedule

Lecture faculty as of February 9

  • Carolyn J. Anderson, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 
    An overview of oncological imaging
  • Stephen B. Baylin, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    The cancer epigenome: Its origins, contributions to tumorigenesis and translational implications
  • J. Michael Bishop, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    Applying cancer genomics
  • Alan D. D’Andrea, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    Targeting DNA repair pathways in cancer therapy
  • James R. Downing, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
    Molecular pathology of acute leukemia
  • Mark W. Geraci, University of Colorado Denver Medical Center, Aurora, CO
    Lung cancer chemoprevention: A translational tale
  • William G. Kaelin Jr., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    Molecular pathogenesis of the von Hippel-Lindau hereditary cancer syndrome: Implications for oxygen sensing
  • Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
    From the p53 signaling axis to molecular targets and therapeutic approaches for triple negative breast cancer
  • Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
    Overcoming resistance to targeted therapies
  • William R. Sellers, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
    The discovery and application of effective cancer therapeutics
  • Kevin M. Shannon, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA
    Targeting aberrant Ras signaling in cancer
  • Suzanne L. Topalian, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD
    The PD-1 pathway in cancer immunotherapy
  • David A. Tuveson, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Modeling human cancer in mice

Laboratory faculty as of February 9

  • Camilla Heinzmann, QIAGEN Inc., Valencia, CA
    Tools for Successful Gene Expression Analysis: From RNA to Real-Time RT-PCR
  • Thomas Graeber, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, and Parag Mallick, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
    Protein Purification and Subfractionation for Proteomic Characterization
  • Robert A. Sclafani, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO
    Genetic Systems for Analyzing the Role of Interacting Proteins in Cancer Cells
  • Tyra Wolfsberg and Gretchen Gibney, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
    Bioinformatics 101
MONDAY, JULY 16

REGISTRATION

3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

WELCOME / LECTURES

5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

RECEPTION AND DINNER

7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, JULY 17

LECTURES

8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

GRANT WRITING GROUP DISCUSSIONS

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

LUNCH

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

INTRODUCTION TO LABORATORY SESSIONS

1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

LABORATORY SESSIONS

2:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18

LECTURES

8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

SESSION ON CAREER DEVELOPMENT

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

LUNCH

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

GRANT WRITING GROUP DISCUSSIONS

1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

LABORATORY SESSIONS

2:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.

RECEPTION AND DINNER

5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

THURSDAY, JULY 19

LECTURES

8:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

FACULTY OFFICE HOURS

12:15 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

FREE TIME / AFTERNOON ON OWN

1:00 p.m.-

FRIDAY, JULY 20

LABORATORY SESSIONS

8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

GRANT WRITING GROUP DISCUSSIONS

1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

LECTURES

2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 21

LABORATORY SESSIONS

8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

FACULTY OFFICE HOURS

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

LUNCH

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

LECTURE

1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

GRANT WRITING

3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

CLOSING DINNER AND PARTY

7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

SUNDAY, JULY 22

DEPARTURE