January 21 – 24, 2009
The Westin San Diego Hotel
San Diego, California
CHAIRPERSONS:
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Owen N. Witte, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce R. Zetter, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Information on registration, abstract submission, accommodations, etc. will be available in mid-2008.
Program as of May 7, 2008
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
- Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22
ANIMAL MODELS
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
- Cory Abate-Shen, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, New York, NY
- David M. Spencer, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Terry A. Van Dyke, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD
PTEN
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
- Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Hong Wu, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Levi A. Garroway, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
APOPTOSIS
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- Xiaodong Wang, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
- John C. Reed, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA
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- Additional speaker to be announced
POSTER SESSION A / DESSERT RECEPTION
7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
TECHNOLOGIES / IMAGING
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
- Anna M. Wu, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Renata Pasqualini, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
- Howard I. Scher, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
- Randolph S. Watnick, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Owen N. Witte, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Jill A. Macoska, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
POSTER SESSION B / LUNCH
12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY / CANCER GENETICS
2:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
- William B. Isaacs, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Robert H. Silverman, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
- John D. Carpten, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ
- Jianfeng Xu, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24
THERAPEUTICS / IMMUNOTHERAPY
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
- Bruce R. Zetter, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- James P. Allison, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- Kenneth J. Pienta, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI
LATE-BREAKING RESEARCH
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- Zena Werb, University of California, San Francisco, CA
- Maarten van Lohuizen, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Carlo M. Croce, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH
- Arul M. Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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