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Program

Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in Toronto and will not live-stream content for virtual participation.

MONDAY, JUNE 21

TUESDAY, JUNE 22

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23

Monday, June 21

REGISTRATION

3-9 p.m.

WELCOME AND Keynote Lectures

5-6:30 p.m.

  • 5:30 p.m. | Welcome by cochairs and introduction of keynote speaker
  • 5:35 p.m. | Opening Keynote Lecture
    Laura D. Wood, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Plenary Session 1: Harnessing Cancer Evolution for Drug Discovery—Working Group Session6:

6:10-7:30 p.m.

Session organized by the Cancer Evolution Working Group

Session Chair: Trevor A. Graham, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom

  • Louis M. Weiner, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
  • Trevor A. Graham, Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom

Short talk selected from proffered abstract

Poster Session A and Opening Reception

7:30-9 p.m

Tuesday, June 22

Continental Breakfast

7-8 a.m.

Plenary Session 2: AI and Computational Prediction of Cancer Evolution

8-9:40 a.m.

Break

9:40 a.m.- 10 a.m.

Plenary Session 3: Somatic Evolution in Normal Tissues and Aging

10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.

Proffered talk session

11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Lunch on own

12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Premalignant Disease and Cancer Initiation

2 p.m.-3:40 p.m.

  • Kathleen (Kit) Curtius, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

Additional speakers to be announced
Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

3:40 – 4 p.m.

Plenary Session 5: The Aging-Inflammation-Cancer Continuum

4-6 p.m.

  • Stephanie Spranger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Scott Kopetz, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Additional speakers to be announced
Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Poster Session B And Reception

6-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 23

Continental Breakfast

7-8 a.m.

Plenary Session 6: Metastatic Cascade and Divergent Evolution

8-9:20 a.m.

Break

9:20-11:45 a.m.

Plenary Session 7:Tumor–Host Crosstalk/Co Evolution

9:45-11:30 a.m.

  • Karin de Visser, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Additional speakers to be announced

Break

11:30 -11:45 a.m

Keynote LEcture

11:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m

  • Tyler E. Jacks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Plenary Session 8: Treatment Resistance and Evolution Under Therapy

12:20-1:40 p.m.

  • Cristina Puig-Saus, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
  • Adam C. Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Closing Remarks and Departure

1:40 p.m.