Program

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

• Keynote Lecture: Global Initiatives in Prevention Research
  William G. Nelson, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
• Keynote Lecture: Tobacco, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases/Vaccines
  Graham Colditz, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Distinguished Lecture on Targets for Cancer Prevention
  Speaker to be announced

GENOMICS AND PREVENTION: WILL GENOMICS LEAD TO OPTIMIZED CANCER PREVENTION?

Session Co-Chairpersons: David J. Adams, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, England; and Timothy R. Rebbeck, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

INFLAMMATION AND CANCER

Session Chairperson: Andrew J. Dannenberg, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

OBESITY, DIABETES AND METABOLIC SYNDROME

Session Chairperson: Stephen D. Hursting, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

PREVENTION ACROSS THE LIFE SPECTRUM / AGING AND CANCER

Session Chairperson: Cheryl Lyn Walker, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

RISK ASSESSMENT AND EARLY DETECTION

Session Chairperson: Samir M. Hanash, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF CHEMOPREVENTION TRIALS

Session Chairperson: J. Jack Lee, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

HOW CAN WE USE MOUSE MODELS FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH?

Session Chairperson to be announced

HOW TO ESTABLISH TRANS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAMS

Session Chairperson to be announced

MICROBIOME

Session Chairperson to be announced

NEW APPROACHES FOR BIOMARKER DISCOVERY

Session Chairperson: Nancy H. Colburn, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA

NON-CODING RNAS

Session Chairperson to be announced

CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN CANCER SCREENING

Session Chairperson: Electra D. Paskett, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA

GLOBAL CHALLENGES: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Session Chairperson: Thomas W. Kensler, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

GLOBAL CHALLENGES: INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND CANCER

Session Chairperson to be announced

INTERFACE OF OTHER DISEASES AND CANCER

Session Chairperson: Phillip A. Dennis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

MOLECULAR TARGETS FOR CANCER PREVENTION

Session Chairperson to be announced

NSAIDS AND BEYOND

Session Chairperson: Ernest T. Hawk, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

RISK ASSESSMENT

Session Chairperson: Xifeng Wu, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

TARGETING TUMOR INITIATING CELLS FOR CANCER PREVENTION

Session Chairperson to be announced

AACR-PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION AWARD LECTURE

Lecturer to be announced

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE IN CANCER RESEARCH NETWORKING EVENT

ECONOMICS OF PREVENTING CANCER

Session Chairperson to be announced

FAILED LARGE TRIALS REVISITED / REPURPOSING DRUGS FOR CANCER PREVENTION

Moderators: Scott M. Lippman, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA, and Eva Szabo, National Cancer Institute, Potomac, MD, USA

HOW TO GAIN ACCESS TO WORLDWIDE COHORTS

Session Chairperson: Mary Beth Terry, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY WORKING GROUP TOWN MEETING AND RECEPTION

OVERSCREENING / OVERDIAGNOSIS

Moderator: Ernest T. Hawk, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

POSTER SESSIONS

PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT SESSION

Session Chairperson to be announced

UPDATE ON TOBACCO RESEARCH

Session Chairperson to be announced